The battle for Kohima and Imphal was a decisive turning point in WWII, ending with the first major defeat suffered by Japanese forces in the Burma theater. In India's remote northeast states of ...

KOHIMA, India - Soldiers died by the dozens, by the hundreds and then by the thousands in a battle here 70 years ago. Two bloody weeks of fighting came down to just a few yards across an asphalt ...

CONSIDERING the size and importance of the Burma campaign, it has had very little public attention. Events in Burma have been overshadowed by the climax of the war against Germany and the great ...

Some historians refer to the Defence of Kohima as Britain's Greatest Battle. Others refer to the siege as the Stalingrad of the East. The Japanese U-go offensive and subsequent battle of Kohima (and ...

This photo shows British troops advancing to open the Imphal-Kohima road. The road was freed as a result of hard fighting by the 14th Army; British troops who cleared the Japanese of Kohima pushed ...

Prof. Callahan (Delaware), author of Burma, 1942-1945, Churchill and his Generals, and several other works on World War II, gives us an overview of one of the most arduous – and most overlooked – ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Battle of Imphal/Kohima, when British troops fighting in horrendous jungle conditions turned the tide against the Japanese army in World War II, has been chosen as Britain's ...