|
|
Product Description
Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Kohima during World War II (1939-1945), which saved India from Japanese attacks. In March 1944 the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising by the Indian populace against British rule. The Japanese plan would rely on mobility, infiltration and captured supplies to maintain the momentum of the attack. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention away from the Imphal area where the brunt of the U-Go attacks would take place.
But British forces employed new defensive techniques to counter the Japanese infiltration tactics; forming defensive boxes, supplied by air, they held out against determined Japanese assaults until the Japanese were forced to withdraw, short of supplies. These tactics were again employed on a larger scale when Imphal and Kohima were surrounded during Operation U-Go.
Kohima (the 'Stalingrad of the East') was the crucial key point to the successful defence of Imphal, and took place in two stages. From 3 to 16 April the Japanese attempted to capture Kohima Ridge, which dominated the road along which the British and Indian troops centred on the Imphal plain were supplied. As the small garrison held out against fierce and repeatedly desperate attempts by the Japanese 31st Division to destroy them, so the British 2nd Division fought to break through and relieve them.
Then for over two months from 18 April, British and Indian troops counter-attacked in an effort to drive the Japanese from the positions they had already captured that blocked the road to Imphal. The battle ended on June 22 when British and Indian troops from Kohima and Imphal met at Milestone 109, thus ending the siege.
Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Burma Road 1943-44: Stilwell's assault on Myitkyina (Campaign)
- Meiktila 1945: The battle to liberate Burma (Campaign)
- Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East (Campaign)
- Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India (Campaign)
- The Aleutians 1942-43: Struggle for the North Pacific (Campaign)
- Java Sea 1942: Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies (Campaign)
- Tsushima 1905: Death of a Russian Fleet (Campaign)
- Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese (Campaign)
- Guadalcanal 1942-43: Japan's bid to knock out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force (Air Campaign)
- Midway 1942: Turning point in the Pacific (Campaign)
*If this is not the "Kohima 1944: The battle that saved India (Campaign)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Nov 17, 2024 04:18 +08.
