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'''Myebon''' ({{lang-my|မြေပုံမြို့}} [[Myebon Township]]) is a town of [[Mrauk-U District]] in [[Rakhine State]], [[Myanmar]] (Burma). In the 2014 census, the population of the
On 12 January 1945, troops of [[XV Corps (British India)| XV Corps ]] and [[3 Commando Brigade (United Kingdom)|3rd Commando Brigade]] launched an amphibious assault on the Myebon peninsula, with the support of tanks, aircraft and naval gunfire as part of flanking moves to intercept and defeat the retreating troops of the [[Twenty-Eighth Army (Japan)|Japanese Twenty-Eighth Army]] in the [[Burma_campaign#Southern_front_1944-1945|Southern front of the Burma Campaign]] in World War II. Myebon village was attacked and secured the next day.<ref name="St George Saunders">{{cite book |last1=St George Saunders |first1=Hilary Aidan |title=The Green Beret: The Story of the Commandos, Combined Operations, 1940–1945 |date=1949 |publisher=Michael Joseph |pages=343-345}}</ref>
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