British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9, the Japanese began ...
That said, and having doffed my hat to his military service, I think his viewpoint here is hopelessly, if not hysterically, optimistic. Far from the British army lasting between six and twelve ...
Captain Walter Godsal, who lives in Winsford, Somerset, fought in the Burma Campaign in which Allied ... family and local dignitaries at the Royal British Legion's Dunkirk Memorial House, near ...
Carns said that in a large-scale war, comparable to the war in Ukraine, the British Army would be depleted within six months to a year as part of a broader multinational coalition. Ukrainian recruits ...