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 ...
A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...
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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 ...
When Mashuq received his OBE in 2010 - for services to young people and to community relations in Burnley and Pendle - from ...
Janaki Thevar’s story is a remarkable chapter of India’s freedom struggle. Born in British Malaya, she joined the INA at ...
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