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 ...

Some historians refer to the Defence of Kohima as Britain's Greatest Battle. Others refer to the siege as the Stalingrad of ...

Large reinforcements of British troops in north east India during 1943 prompted the Japanese to launch a pre-emptive offensive from Burma into the Indian province of Assam. The Japanese did not want ...

KOHIMA, India—Eighty years after the Imperial Japanese Army lost one of its bloodiest battles in World War II, a cenotaph was dedicated to the Japanese troops who died in the desperate campaign.

Area: Northern Burma and north east India. Players: Allies: 4th Corps under General Geoffrey Scoones; 15th Corps under General Philip Christison; 33rd Corps under Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford; ...

Captain Robin Rowland was 22 when his regiment was deployed to the north-eastern Indian town of Kohima. It was May 1944, and a small group of British-Indian soldiers was under assault by an entire ...

In a cataclysmic year during which the whole world has been beset by Covid-19, gone almost unnoticed is the 75th anniversary of the end of the last great catastrophe to befall our planet – WWII. But ...

In 1942 they needed artillery officers and it was a short way of getting a commission. To get commission in those days you had to go through the ranks and have to be put forward for commission ...