During the second world war, Japanese forces occupied Burma. Allied forces began their campaign to retake it in 1944. Objective, Burma! begins with US general Joseph Stilwell planning the invasion of ...

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This is 1944 now. I was promoted sub-lieutenant, I had to leave Renown then, and of course I wondered where I was going to go, they put you anywhere, you see, they thought I was suitable for coastal ...

July 1944, age 23, having over four years service as an infantry soldier and more than one year with the Kings African Rifles, I am with 13 KAR, 11th East African Division, just entering Burma as part ...

Stories categorised in 'A V.A.D. in India and Burma by Greta Underwood'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Mrs Greta Underwood, served as a ‘VAD’ nurse in India and Burma from 1944 ...

The only pitched battle of the Indo-Burma front so far, it was a hard slogging match lasting forty days with the Japs grimly determined to hold on to their positions and we equally determined to throw ...

Service in the Chongs of Burma in an HDML, 1944 Transcribed from a video recording This is 1944 now. I was promoted sub-lieutenant, I had to leave Renown then, and of course I wondered where I was ...