I fought in Burma and Malaya during WW2 and went there in December 1942 ... We were the second lot of troops to relieve battle of the Admin Box — they weren’t. They died of starvation ...

The Admin Box battle was the turning point on the ... put on Dakotas and transferred to Imphal in the North of Burma for the Kohima battle . 21 , 000 Japs were killed in that battle and the ...

One such slice of history is the Battle for Kohima-Imphal, which was a decisive turning point in the war. It ended with the first major defeat suffered by Japanese forces in the Burma theater and ...

But that defeat actually started in Kohima and Imphal, bordering Burma in north-east India ... The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan reports. WW2: The battle of Kohima and Imphal. Video, 00:03:27WW2 ...