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	WW2DB: Battle of Imphal-Kohima
		Imphal was the state capital of Manipur in northeastern India and was situated amidst a plain where an invading army from the east must march across.
		The city of Imphal was defended by the Indian IV Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Scoones, who reported to Lieutenant General William Slim.
		When the battle at Milestone 109 was won by the British and Indian troops, the siege of Imphal was lifted.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=188 (1252 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (The Second World War) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Battle of Arnhem was an airborne operation by the Allies, between the 17th and 26th of September 1944 during the Second World War, to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, thereby opening the way for a thrust towards the Ruhr and a possible early end to the war.
		The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941.
		The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Operation Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR, and the bombing raids were switched to civilian targets.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /FB4.HTM (4801 words)

	Battle of Imphal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This, together with the simultaneous Battle of Kohima, was the turning point from the Japanese to the Allies in Burma Campaign part of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		Imphal was crucial to the Japanese plan for the invasion of India in 1944 and so Lieut-General Sir William Slim devoted Lieut-General Sir Geoffrey Scoones 's reinforced IV Corps, including the 5th and 7th Indian Divisions, and extensive air support, to its defence.
		Imphal held out for three months, with air and Chindits attacks disrupting the Japanese lines of supplies and communication, until the British were able to break the siege after their victory at Kohima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Imphal (417 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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	1Up India > Indian Hillstations > Hill Stations in India > Imphal - Manipur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dimapur 215 km from Imphal, is the nearest railhead.
		It is situated 45 km south of Imphal, is a centre of Meithei culture, with a temple devoted to the pre-Hindu deity Thangjing.
		It is 156 km from Imphal and is the district headquartersof the Tamenglong district.
	www.1upindia.com /hillstations/imphal.html (1544 words)

	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose with Japan during World War II
		The Imphal Campaign, including the battle of Kohima -- the first major town to be captured by the INA inside India -- will perhaps go down as one of the most daring and disastrous campaigns in the annals of world military history.
		For the INA the importance of the Imphal campaign was that it was the only major battle in which it would participate with the object of achieving freedom for India.
		The Imphal Operation was the final offensive of the East Asia War, mounted by three Burma-based Japanese divisions, and one INA division.
	netaji.netfirms.com /netaji/japan3.htm (927 words)

	RAF Third Tactical Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Third TAF gave sterling service to Fourteenth Army during the Battle of Kohima and the Battle of Imphal, strafing and bombing the besieging Japanese troops, often at very low level.
		During the battle of Imphal there were seldom more than seven squadrons engaged at one time but over the three months' of the siege altogether 21 squadrons took part: including three from the Indian Air Force (Nos.
		Fought in the battle of Imphal, operated from front-line strips and supported the Fourteenth Army during its final conquest of Burma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Third_Tactical_Air_Force (496 words)

	@Nagaland.faithweb.com - writers bloc - The Battle of Kohima
		All told, 100,000 troops were to march to the assault, first to seize the British bastions at Imphal and Kohima, and then to proceed another 30 miles northwards and put themselves astride the Bengal-Assam railway, the main supply road to General Stilwell and the Chinese.
		The battle was murderous and the supply line was in the air, and by parachute.
		This costly battle raged for weeks, and the names of the Durham Light Infantry, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, and the Royal West Kents will always be associated with Kohima.
	nagaland.faithweb.com /articles/battle_of_kohima.html (1185 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Imphal
		It was one of two simultanious battles which took place, the other was Battle of Kohima, which was the turning point from the Japanese to the Allies in Burma Campaign part of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		Imphal was crucial to the Japanese plan for the invasion of India in 1944 and so the British Field Marshal Sir William Slim devoted a reinforced 4 Corps of Lieut-General Scoones including the 5 and 7 Indian Divions and extensive air support to its defence.
		Thanks to Air superority the Allies could fly men and materal into the airstrips at Imphal so although cut of by land the town was not without a life line.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Imphal (458 words)

	The Match on Delhi
		The backbone of the air defence of Imphal was three Spitfire squadrons, supplemented by four Hurricane squadrons and a detachment flying Beaufighters equipped with night-fighter devices.
		Of these, the 33rd Division was to approach Imphal from the south and invest it, cutting off the British troops in their farthest outpost at Tiddim.
		In claiming that Imphal had fallen by March 30th and Kohima by April 4th, it is probable that Tokyo was not ahead of High Command schedule.
	www.chindit.net /marchondelhi.html (5055 words)

	1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The aim is to destroy all British forces around Imphal and Kohima, and then to push on through the passes to Dimapur, cutting off the Chinese and Americans in the north, and with the road to India ahead.
		The troops SURROUNDED at Imphal and Kohima are to continue to be supplied by air and particularly in the case of the Imphal garrison, are to break through and RELIEVE KOHIMA.
		In the continuing battle for Imphal, the Japanese attacks are being gradually worn down, especially as their food shortage becomes serious.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /1944.htm (927 words)

	Heroism in Burma - tale of a survivor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The battle for Kohima was to prove one of the great turning points of the war in the Far East.
		Whilst the Camerons were engaged in their left flanking movement on Kohima, the rest of the 2nd Division had advanced along the main Imphal road and we re fighting and clearing various ridges overlooking the road.
		The Dorsets from 5th Brigade were battling for the tennis courts at the District Commission er' s bungalow; they were dug in on one side and the Jap had the other, but the y were not playing tennis.
	www.cix.co.uk /~dliddlea/timeguns/survivor.htm (6735 words)

	Timemachine - Second World War Timeline
		The colours indicate the geographic region where an event or battle occurred; while the shape of symbol shows what kind of combat was involved.
		May 7-8 - The first battle between aircraft carriers in history is fought at the Battle of the Coral Sea in the South Pacific, between American and Japanese forces.
		Sept 17-25 - Battle for Arnhem results in the worst defeat of the war for the British with the loss of an entire parachute division.
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	@Nagaland.faithweb.com - writers bloc - The Battle of Kohima
		A ONE-TIME storeroom in York is an unlikely shrine to soldiers who fought and died in one of the bloodiest and most ferocious battles of modern times.
		But despite the elevation to more spacious quarters in Imphal Barracks, and the status of a fully fledged museum, it continues to maintain a low profile, opening its doors to the public just once a year in July.
		While the military might of the United States, and the vast resources at its command, were being used to effect in the Pacific, the Japanese harboured ambitions of a massive breakthrough on the Assam front which would carry them victoriously, into India and provoke a revolt against British colonial rule.
	nagaland.faithweb.com /articles/battle_of_kohima1.html (1464 words)

	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Battles & Wars : I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Battle at a crossing of the River Idle in South Yorkshire between Raedwald, overlord of the southern English and Æthelfrith, king of Northumberland, who was killed in the battle.
		Battle in the Crimean War with an Anglo-French victory over Russians attacking the Inkerman Ridge, which was occupied by the British army besieging Sebastopol.
		The battle was fought during a solar eclipse.
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	Encounters with WW2 RIAF Veterans - Anatomy of a Tac-R Hurricane Sortie
		By late afternoon, the clouds were flirting with sunbeams and it had turned quite dark, intermittent rain hissing through the trees and the delicious smell of damp earth heavy in the air.
		Because of the importance of the sortie, the CO himself was present.
		Left hand to the bottom left of the instrument panel as he flicked on his navigation light and the pressure head heat switches, then his hand up - cockpit lights on, two on the left, one on the right, reach down - compass light on - rheostat to full bright.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /IAF/History/1940s/TacHurri.html (3715 words)

	Imphal
		Until 1813, when Manipur was conquered by the Burmese, Imphal was the seat of the Manipuri kings.
		Imphal has three colleges affiliated with Guwahati Univ., as well as a technical college.
		Imphal, Battle of (The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0825048.html (219 words)

	Imphal Summary
		The capital of Manipur State in northeastern India, Imphal lies in a Manipur River valley at an altitude of around 792 meters.
		Imphal was the seat of the kings of Manipur before the British took control of the region in 1926.
		In 1944 it was the site of a decisive battle in which a British garrison held off advancing Japanese troops, thereby halting the Japanese march through Myanmar (Burma) and ending Japan's attempt to invade India.
	www.bookrags.com /Imphal (583 words)

	The Gurkha History
		The two senior regiments distinguished themselves in the hard fought battles of the 1st Sikh War in 1846, and six regiments of the Nepalese Army were offered to the East India Company for service in the 2nd Sikh War of 1848.
		In the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858 the 2nd Goorkhas showed striking proof of their loyalty at Delhi where, together with the 60th Rifles (now part of the Royal Green Jackets), they held Hindu Rao's house, the key to the British position which was under continuous fire from the mutineers for over three months.
		Later a Nepalese Brigade was sent to Burma and fought with particular distinction at the Battle of Imphal.
	gurkhahome.tripod.com /id3.html (764 words)

	Imphal - Capital City of Manipur State, India
		The Imphal Valley is drained by several small rivers originating from the hills surrounding it.
		Near the Polo Ground is the Manipur State Museum, which has a good collection of old artifacts and nice pictures depicting the history of Manipur.
		In 1944 during World War II the Battle of Imphal along with the simultaneous Battle of Kohima was the turning point in the Burma Campaign.
	www.gloriousindia.com /places/cities/imphal.html (191 words)

	Articles - List of wars and disasters by death toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		800,000â“1,600,000 - Battle of Stalingrad ( 1942 â“ 1943)
		115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers ( 1914)
		383 - Battle of the Alamo ( 1836)
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Death_toll (5284 words)

	Forced March to Imphal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stilwell was unsure how far he could take his vehicles after turning westward, but he knew a trek over the mountains to India would require that they be abandoned at some point.
		Third, medical personnel made up a significant portion of the group, and a limited amount of medical supplies continued to be carried even after all vehicles were abandoned.
		A more southerly route had been suggested, but Stilwell knew the Japanese were closing in on all exits from Burma, and the easier route to Imphal, through Sittaung and Tamu, was very vulnerable to ambush from Japanese patrols.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blmarchtoimphal/index1.html (950 words)

	BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art Battle Of Focchies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bandung fe institute The Bandung Fe Institute is an independent non-profit research organization in Bandung, Indonesia in the endeavor of social analysis by using the recent understanding on complexity theory.
		Battle of Natural Bridge The Battle of Natural Bridge was a battle during the American Civil War, fought near Tallahassee, Florida on March 6, 1865.
		Battle of Long Tan The Battle of Long Tan was a small-scale, but intense action on August 18, 1966 during the Vietnam War.
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	BBC - WW2 People's War - Battle in Imphal.
		We were flown into Imphal as reinforcments for the 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in 1944, previously I had belonged to the 70th Battalion the Welch Regiment, which was disbanded after arrival in India, and a spell at Deolali camp.
		The planes we flew into Imphal in, were Dakotas, flown by American airmen.
		I was a wireless man, in fact I was in some form of communications for most of the war ever since joining up in 1942, when I was just over 18 years of age, the age limit having, I believe been lowered to 18 in that year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/07/a2849907.shtml (280 words)

	Wars and Campaigns: World War II
		Beginning with the battle of Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses the vast expanse of the Russian War, from the siege of Leningrad and the fierce battles of the norther front, to the fourth battle of Kharkov, and the evacuation of the Crimea, a withdrawal forbidden by Hitler.
		With the decimation of the German army in the West in a sequence of summer encirclement battles at Falaise, the Seine river, and finally the Mons pocket in Belgium, the Wehrmacht was in headlong retreat.
		The battle of Peleliu, long regarded as the forgotten battle of the Pacific war, was a close quarters encounter remarkable in its savagery.
	www.chrisevansbooks.com /warsww2.html (15022 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This page lists all the Battle Honours that RAF units are eligible to claim as participants, and distinguishes between those that can and cannot be emblazoned upon the Squadron Standard.
		For operations during the 14th Army's advance from Imphal to Rangoon, the coastal amphibious assaults, and the Battle of Pegu Yomas, August 1944 to August 1945.
		For operations by aircraft based in the British Isles against targets in Germany, Italy and enemy-occupied Europe, from the fall of France to the invasion of Normandy.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/sqn_hons_ww2_1.html (531 words)

	James "Jimmy" Whalen
		The largest land battle in the Asian theater The Battle of the Imphal Plain occurred in March/April of 1944.
		For 2 weeks battles raged in and around the residence of the British Deputy Commissioner.
		The village was nestled between two mountain ridges, which meant the pilots would have to run a gauntlet of small arms and light anti-aircraft fire while making their strafing and bombing runs.
	www.rcaf.com /whalen (2564 words)

	Epitaph [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		that here, obedient to their laws we lie -- Simonides 's epigram at Thermopylae The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC set an alliance of Greek city-states against an invading Persian army.
		Though vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persian advance until a defector informed the Persians of an alternate route, leading to the defeat of the Greek army and the sacking of Athens....
		Attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958), an English classicist, suggested for the memorial by Major John Etty-Leal, the GSO II of the 2nd Division, another classical scholar.
	www.wikimirror.com /Epitaph (815 words)

	The Kohima Memorial has one of the most moving epitaphs ever used on a memorial
		The Seaforths and Camerons were both at Kohima and the nearby battle of Imphal during the Burma Campaign of the 14th (The Forgotten) Army
		The Memorial itself consists of a large monolith of Naga stone such as is used to mark the graves of dead Nagas.
		According to the Burma Star Association the words were used for the Kohima Memorial as a suggestion by Major John Etty-Leal, the GSO II of the 2nd Division, another classical scholar.
	www.cabarfeidh.com /kohima.htm (237 words)

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