Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An tabbatar da matsayinsa na laftanar janar a watan Afrilu na shekarar 1945, a ƙarshen watan Mayu an sake sanya hedkwatar rundunar sojojin Indiya ta XXXIII ta Stopford a matsayin sabon HQ British Twelfth Army. Yanzu rundunar ta goma sha biyu ta dauki alhakin kammala matakai na karshe na yakin a Burma, wanda ya ba da damar HQ ta goma sha huɗu ta koma Indiya, don tsara ayyukan gaba, musamman maido da Malaya. Yaƙin a karkashin umurnin Stopford zai zama sananne ne a matsayin Yaƙin Sittang Bend. Sauran Jafananci a cikin kwarin Irrawaddy, kimanin sojoji 30,000, sun yi ƙoƙarin ƙetare tsaunukan Pegu Yoma da Kogin Sittang, zuwa amincin da ake tsammani na Karen Hills, da ke iyaka da Thailand. An ba Lieutenant Janar Messervy na IV Corps, tare da rarrabuwa uku a karkashin umurnin, rundunar soja ta goma sha biyu ta yi asara mai yawa a kan sojojin Japan, da dama daga cikinsu suna fama da yunwa ko kuma rashin lafiya. Kamar yadda ya fito, wannan shi ne ya zama na karshe manyan ƙasar mataki yaƙi da yammacin Allies a lokacin yakin duniya na II kamar yadda, a tsakiyar watan Agusta, da Japan mika wuya a Tokyo
Ka yi haƙuri. Stopford ya ba da umarnin dakatar da duk ayyukan hare-haren, kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya fara tattaunawa da Jafananci, wanda ya kai ga mika wuya a Rangoon a tsakiyar watan Satumba. A watan da ya biyo baya, a wani bikin, Janar Heitarō Kimura, kwamandan sojojin yankin Burma na Japan, ya mika wa Stopford takobinsa.