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===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
**[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=477224#forgottenfrontierbygeoffreytyson ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book is about the Trek and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam assisting people from North Burma into India.
*[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010110101 The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees by Gyles Mackrell , an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip from the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH40,67293 ''The story of Sam and Marg Acomb''] The War period commences page 28. In 1941 the author escaped from Thailand to Rangoon where he joined the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers. In 1942 he trekked for three weeks out of Burma to India. Subsequently he was assigned as Intelligence Officer in Dibrugahr Assam, Deolali, Ceylon and Bangkok(1944) until he was discharged in August 1946. BYU Digital Collections
*Listen to a [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9661000/9661140.stm radio interview] with Felicity Goodall, author of ''Exodus Burma''. news.bbc.co.uk. Today,Tuesday, 13 December 2011. [http://felicitygoodall.wordpress.com/books/exodus-burma Details] of ''Exodus Burma, the British Escape Through the Jungles of Death 1942'' by Felicity Goodall 2011. Available to buy through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0752460927 FIBIS Shop]
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