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Burma 44: Imphal - The Battle of Kohima (Part 6)

Photo: The Battle of Kohima, March–July 1944: View of the Garrison Hill battlefield, showing British and Japanese positions. Garrison Hill was key to the British defences at Kohima. Image: No. 9 Army Film and Photographic Unit / IWM (IND 3698). Public domain.

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Goalhanger

2 Sept, 2024

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

37 mins

1949

India in WWII

Middle East

Fighting Doctrine

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA)

Indian Army

Fourteenth Army

Burma Campaign

Southeast Asia Command (SEAC)

Allied Generals

In this final episode in our Burma 44 series, Al and James turn their attentions a little further north and to the astonishing Battle of Kohima.

Surrounded and besieged, the small garrison held out but as Al and Jim discover, it was a very close run thing indeed, but this - and other heroics - ensured General Slim and his Fourteenth Army won a crushing victory from which the Japanese in Burma would never recover.

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Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

Al Murray

Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

Burma 44

Burma 44: Imphal - The Battle of Kohima (Part 6)

Burma 44: Imphal - The Battle of Kohima (Part 6)

Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Al Murray

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