The Stilwell Road - The Ledo Road from India to China in WW2

The Stilwell Road - Part of Pacific Week on WW2TV
Our guest today is photographer and Findlay Kember who has travelled throughout South Asia and spent 4 years documenting the route of the Stilwell Road which starts in the town of Ledo in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, crosses northern Myanmar and ends in Kunming in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan.
The Stilwell Road was an overland connection between India and China, built during WWII to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China and aid the war effort against Japan. After the Japanese cut off the Burma Road in 1942 an alternative was required, hence the construction of a new road. It was renamed the Stilwell Road, after General Joseph Stilwell of the U.S. Army, in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek. It passes through the Burmese towns of Shingbwiyang, Myitkyina and Bhamo in Kachin state.
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