battle, interwar and Second World War

Battle of Prome

Name: Battle of Prome
Start: 1942-03-30
Location: Pyay, Myanmar

Battle of Prome was a battle fought on 30 March 1942 at Pyay, in what is now Myanmar; it lasted 3 days. It was part of the Japanese conquest of Burma, which ran from 1941 to 1942. The recorded result: Japanese victory.

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Fought30 March 1942lasted 3 days

WherePyay, Myanmar18.817N, 95.217E

OutcomeJapanese victory

BelligerentsBritish Empire; British Burma; British RajagainstEmpire of Japan

Part ofJapanese conquest of Burma1941 to 1942

Where it sits in the Japanese conquest of Burma

4 placed engagements of the Japanese conquest of Burma in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	30 March 1942 to 2 April 1942
Place	Pyay, Myanmar 18.817N, 95.217E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Prome 1825, same recorded site
Battle of Tanlwe Chaung 1945, 95 km SW
Battle of Oktwin 1942, 125 km E
Battle of Toungoo 1942, 129 km E
Battle of Tachiao 1942, 129 km E

In the same war

Before: Battle of Pegu 7 March 1942
All 4 engagements of Japanese conquest of Burma

Elsewhere in 1942

Battle of Prome is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 34 in present-day Myanmar.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q16822683, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Prome (1942), revision 1375622239, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.