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Prime Minister David Cameron meets with aircrew and ground crew from 12(B) Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, during a pre-Christmas visit to troops in Afghanistan. Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire 2011
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WWII: Battle of Kohima

4th April 1944

The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of the Japanese offensive into India in 1944. The battle was fought from 4th April to 22nd June around the town of Kohima in northeast India, and is often referred to as the "Stalingrad of the East".

The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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