197 - Kohima
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The Burma Campaign
The Japanese had not managed to move on from their thinking about how war is conducted and how battle is achieved. But if you look at the British in 1944 in Falun Ihima and in Burma in 1945, battles were won because the logistics war had been won. Of the 1.3 million men in Southeast Asia command in 1945, only 606,000 of them were in the fighting forces. By the time the 4th Indian Corps had got down to Rangoon, you were talking about a force of maybe 25-30,000 men out of that 1.3million. The boys in the Far East always called themselves the forgotten army that started in 1942. It was because
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