During April, Fourteenth Army advanced 300 miles (480 km) south towards <answer>Rangoon</answer>, the capital and principal port of Burma, but was delayed by Japanese rearguards 40 miles (64 km) north of <answer>Rangoon</answer> at the end of the month. Slim feared that the Japanese would defend <answer>Rangoon</answer> house-to-house during the monsoon, placing his army in a disastrous supply situation, and in March he had asked that a plan to capture <answer>Rangoon</answer> by an amphibious force, Operation Dracula, which had been abandoned earlier, be reinstated. Dracula was launched on 1 May, but <answer>Rangoon</answer> was found to have been abandoned. The troops which occupied <answer>Rangoon</answer> linked up with Fourteenth Army five days later, securing the Allies' lines of communication.
What was the principle port of Burma?
Rangoon