Imphal-Kohima 1944 MP Match

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ep 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC4Vib0VwAc&t=352s

SC-Pacific: Imphal-Kohima 1944 Ep 7, March 26, 1944. "General Yamauchi's command is decimated NE of Imphal. A pullback is ordered to Loktak Lake to use it and the surrounding swamps as a shield against advancing Japanese pushing on Imphal from the south'"

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ep 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Vgcr2fEWc&t=65s

"More Japanese forces are smashed NE of Imphal. Reinforcements are rushed to Dimapur to help stop the enemy advance on Kohima, Indian forces pull back on the southern sector of the Arakan Front".

[Tanaka]

Ep 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC4Vib0VwAc&t=352s

SC-Pacific: Imphal-Kohima 1944 Ep 7, March 26, 1944. "General Yamauchi's command is decimated NE of Imphal. A pullback is ordered to Loktak Lake to use it and the surrounding swamps as a shield against advancing Japanese pushing on Imphal from the south'"

Had no idea there were West African troops in the theater!

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ep 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC4Vib0VwAc&t=352s

SC-Pacific: Imphal-Kohima 1944 Ep 7, March 26, 1944. "General Yamauchi's command is decimated NE of Imphal. A pullback is ordered to Loktak Lake to use it and the surrounding swamps as a shield against advancing Japanese pushing on Imphal from the south'"

Had no idea there were West African troops in the theater!

Quite a few actually, and Nigerian too. I think the make up of the 81st were raised in Ghana (Gold Coast), Sierra Leone, Dahomey, Gambia, and Togo...all British colonies.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ep 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QKJBRE7Hk&t=178s

SC-Pacific: Imphal-Kohima 1944 Ep 9, April 1, 1944. "The defenders of Imphal smash-up a Japanese advance in the swamps around Lake Lotak. Reinforcements out of Dimupur move on the Japanese lodged at Naga Village. The situation in Arakan gets dangerous as the enemy advances up the coast towards Cox's Bazar"

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ep 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOctuYCPb08&t=29s

SC-Pacific: Imphal-Kohima 1944 Ep 10, Apr 4, 1944. "Indian forces fall back upon Chittagong. Battles grind on around the other fronts in Burma".