Sittang Bridge - The Matrix Games version of Rising Sun

Sittang, Burma: For two days the Commonwealth troops of the 17th Indian Division have been holding open the railroad bridge, west, across the Sittang River, waiting for the scattered elements of the division to arrive from Bilin, Kyaikto and other locales. On the 21st three Gurkha battalions managed to hold off furious Japanese attacks mounted by elements of the 33rd Division which had been dogging the Allies every step on the retreat. During the day of the 22nd the Japanese 33rd Division began to earnestly probe the Allied positions and with the arrival of part of the 55th Division, after midnight, in the early darkness of the 23rd, the Japanese made their bid to capture the Sittang Bridge. [Unfortunately for the bulk of the Allied 16th and 46th Indian Brigades, under circumstances still debated today, the bridge was blown later in the day of the 23rd before they could cross. That event, completely unhinged the precarious Allied situation in southern Burma and led to the evacuation of Rangoon. Se la guerre.]