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VJ Day special - Robin Rowland: Part 1

Photo: A Douglas Dakota of No. 177 Wing RAF climbs away after parachuting supplies to the trapped 7th Indian Division in the Kalapanzin Valley, Burma, 1944, during the Second Arakan Campaign. Source: Imperial War Museum, CI 602. Public domain under UK Crown Copyright provisions.

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Goalhanger

11 Aug, 2020

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

56 mins

Japan at War

1945

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA)

Indian Army

1944

British Army

Fourteenth Army

Burma Campaign

Southeast Asia Command (SEAC)

Robin Rowland was an officer in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, fighting at the Battle of the Admin Box and at the Battle of Kohima. Here he is in conversation with James Holland. In this first part of their discussion Robin describes how he found himself in India and the chaos and confusion of the Admin Box.

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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

Robin Rowland

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