Blowing the bridge over the Sittang

22nd February 1942: Another disaster for the British Army as the greater part of their force in Burma is left stranded on the wrong side of the Sittang River

The Retreat into India: Aerial reconnaissance photograph of the bridge over the Sittang River, known as the Sittang Bridge, which was destroyed in the face of the advancing Japanese on the night of 22/23 February 1942.

In Burma British forces were falling back in the face of the Japanese advance. The principal force, 17th Indian Infantry Division had bee…