Colonel Charles Mercer, who has died aged 105, took part in Operation Thursday, the codename of the second Chindit deep-penetration expedition into enemy-occupied Burma. In 1943 Mercer, then a second ...
LED BY Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, eight British columns last February secretly crossed from India through the Japanese lines into Burma and then for three months spread confusion and panic. The ...
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The Unknown Unit That Totally Changed the Course of WW2
In the searing heat of the Burmese jungle, a ragtag band of renegades known as the Chindits was about to have their mettle ...
In the jungles and mountains of north Burma an obscure and confusing military picture suddenly came clear for all to see. Like the arcs of a circle (see map), three different forces drew around the ...
When Crystal Dennis read in December that the remains of a World War II pilot, Capt. Walter Francis Duke of Leonardtown, might have been found after 68 years in the jungles of Burma, it struck a chord ...
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