Pinwe
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Pinwe ({{langx|my|ပင်ဝယ်ရွာ}}) is a village in Indaw Township, Katha District, in the Sagaing Region of northern-central Myanmar.
The village has a railway station on the Mandalay–Myitkyina line.{{cite news |title=34-down train derails between Mawlu and Pinwe stations |url=https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs14/NLM2012-09-23.pdf |volume= XX, Number 156 |publisher=New Light of Myanmar |date=23 September 2012}}
History
File:The British Army in Burma 1944 SE728.jpg team of 36th Infantry Division man a front-line position during the final assault on Pinwe, 22 November 1944.]]
During the Burma campaign it was the site of a three-week-long battle, which resulted in Pinwe being captured by the 36th Infantry Division, from Japanese forces, on 30 November 1944.{{Cite book|last=McLynn|first=Frank|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758389529|title=The Burma campaign : disaster into triumph, 1942-45|date=2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-17836-4|location=New Haven, CT|oclc=758389529}}Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War, Volumes 25-26 (1944), p. 383