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Mar262013

26 March 1942

New Supreme Commander of South-West Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, meets the Australian Advisory War Council for the first time.

In Burma, Chinese troops are desperately holding out in the ancient walled city of Toungoo which is surrounded and under siege by a large Japanese force.

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