When Crystal Dennis read in December that the remains of a World War II pilot, Capt. Walter Francis Duke of Leonardtown, might have been found after 68 years in the jungles of Burma, it struck a chord ...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. xii, 280. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700630414 Victory on the “Forgotten Front” The ...
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Either the radio had packed up or they were on the wrong wavelength, leaving the men cut off from base in the sweltering heat of Upper Burma. It was March 13, 1944, and they were just two days into a ...
There were few muddier airfields in World War II than the one at Mingaladon in the far south of Burma. For the pilots of No 607 Squadron of the RAF, getting to their Spitfires during the monsoon in ...
THE SIEGE (211 pp.)−Arthur Campbell−Macmillan ($3). In British army lingo of the Far East, “I-Wallah” means intelligence officer. He keeps the books of combat and, as far as possible, tries to make ...
When Mashuq received his OBE in 2010 - for services to young people and to community relations in Burnley and Pendle - from ...
The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people have learned to endure. They can now gauge the distance of incoming ...
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