Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1941, i whakawhiwhia te wehenga ki te 15 o nga ope taua, a, i uru ki te wikitoria a Hapani o Burma. I wehe te wehenga i te 143 o nga Rima ki te hopu wehe i a Dawei (Tavoy) me Myeik (Mergui), i te wa i hopukina ai e te ope matua a Mawlamyine (Moulmein) i te 31 o Hanuere 1942. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1942, i whawhai te wehenga mo nga ra 14 huri noa i te taone o Taungoo ki te wehenga 200 o Haina kua ngoikore. I mutu te whawhai i te wa i pakaru ai nga Hainamana ka wehe. I te 18 o Paenga-whāwhā 1942, i karapotia e te 55th Division te 55th Division o Haina, i te mutunga ka whakakorea. I te pakanga o Burma, i wehea te 144th Infantry Regiment mai i te wehenga ka tukuna ki New Guinea. Ko te toenga o te 55th i whakamahia hei whakaeke i te kino o te mahere
Te whakaeke a Ingarangi ki Donbaik (Sittwe (Akyab)) mai i te 18 Poutu-te-rangi 1943. I te 3 o Paenga-whāwhā 1943 ka tiimata te wehenga ki te haere ki tua atu o te rohe o Mayu, ka karapoti me te hinga i etahi waahanga o Ingarangi; i tutaki ki te aukati pakeke mai i te Haratua 1943 ki muri. I waenganui o Noema 1943, kei te rohe o Arakan tonu te 55th. I te mutunga, i whawhai te wehenga i tetahi whakaeke i rahua i riro ko te Pakanga o te Pouaka Whakahaere i te Hui-tanguru 1944. I te 19 o Hui-tanguru 1944, ko te rangatira o te 112th Infantry Regiment, i taua wa mai i te 3000 ki te 400 nga tangata, i pakaru i te whakawhitiwhiti reo irirangi me te tari matua o te wehenga ka whakahoki mai i ana tangata. I muri i te Pakanga o Imphal, i tukuna te wehenga ki te 28th Army i Burma, a, i muri i te wehenga atu ki te awa o Irrawaddy, i raro i te 38th Army. I te 15 o Akuhata 1945, i te wa i korerohia ai te Whakaaetanga o Hapani, ko te 55th Division i Phnom Penh.