Tuesday, May 28, 2013

"For your tomorrow, we gave our today"

The Kohima 2nd Division Memorial in Burma (via Captain Heinrichs).
The Kohima 2nd Division Memorial is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on behalf of the 2nd Infantry Division. The memorial remembers the Allied dead who repulsed the Japanese 15th Army, a force of 100,000 men, who had invaded India in March 1944 in Operation U-Go. Kohima, the capital of Nagaland was vital to control of the area and in fierce fighting the Japanese finally withdrew from the area in June of that year.

2 comments:

bruce said...

Here's a better picture of the actual memorial:

http://www.cwgc.org/dbImage.ashx?id=688

Paco said...

That is a better picture. Thanks, Bruce.