Maps

 

Territorial Expansion of the Japanese Empire

Sections of the CBI Theater

"Allied Lines of Communication in Southeast Asia,"

and the "Hump Route."

Stilwell Road

Ledo Road and Burma Road, Assam to Kunming

Japanese Occupation of China, 1940

Situation at the end of the war, with Japanese-occupied and Communist-held areas.

Hsian and environs from topographic map series L500 of 1954.

Yangtze River Drainage Basin.

Flows by Shanghai to East China Sea.

Kunming = OSS HQ;
Chongqing = KMT HQ;
Wuhan  = railroad hub held by Japanese.

Yellow River Drainage Basin.
a/k/a Hwang-Ho, Hwang-He.
Flows by Dongying to Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea.
Xian, at junction of Wei and Jing Rivers = OSS forward base of operations.