Pinwe () is a village in

Indaw Township Indaw Township is a township in Katha District in the Sagaing Division, Myanmar.

Katha District Katha District is the northeasternmost district in Sagaing Region of Myanmar.

Sagaing Region Sagaing Region (, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and longitude 94° 97' east. It is border ...

of northern-central

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. The village has a railway station on the Mandalay–Myitkyina line.

History

During the

Burma campaign The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of British rule in Burma, Burma as part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. It primarily involved forces of the Allies of World War II, Allies (mainly from ...

it was the site of a three-week-long battle, which resulted in Pinwe being captured by the 36th Infantry Division, from Japanese forces, on 30 November 1944.''Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War'', Volumes 25-26 (1944), p. 383

References

Indaw Township Populated places in Katha District {{KathaMM-geo-stub