2014 - Joint branches of the Nottinghamshire Royal British Legion join together to commemorate the Battle of Kohima. The group photo shows one of our comrades who served as a Chindit in that campaign and was captured by the Japanese. He is 92 years of age.
In 1944 during World War II the Battle of Kohima along with the simultaneous Battle of Imphal was the turning point in the Burma Campaign. For the first time in South-East Asia the Japanese lost the initiative to the Allies which they then retained until the end of the war. This hand-to-hand battle and slaughter prevented the Japanese from gaining a high base from which they might next roll across the extensive flatlands of India like a juggernaut.
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