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Issued on 2 December 1945 "The regrouping of forces in South East Asia for the reoccupation of so many areas has compelled me regretfully to order the break-up of the Fourteenth Army. When you were fo …
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by Frank Owen Field Marshall Viscount Slim was referred to by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, who was Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia, as "the finest general World War II produced". …
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“My object in this Press conference is to try to put before the Press of the world that every effort has been and is continuing to be put into the South East Asia campaign; that the Burma battle fron …
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The 900th Airborne Engineer Aviation Company made more landings than any other gliderborne unit. This article gives an account of their missions in Burma in March-May 1944 during OPERATION THURSDAY. …
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As told by Percy Smith to Mr Michael Hall From the time he was five until he was 16, Smith would snorkel and spear tropical fish most every Sunday afternoon off the sandy-white shore of Sri Lanka. …
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By Alan Barnett Student Pilot There were occasions when the ground crew was given the chance to fly in the Dakota, even sometimes to be able to take over the controls. On one such flight, the Capta …
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By John Winter - Ex 117 Squadron 117 Squadron was formed at Khartoum on 30th April 1941 under the command of Wg Cdr WE Rankin from a detachment of another famous transport squadron -216 and became a …
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By Brian Shelley, May 1945 We were flying along in a DC-3, or as we called it in the RAF, a Dakota, in thick cloud over Burma’s mountains. Returning from a supply drop to the 14th army, we suddenly …
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By Frank Merrett Fourteenth Motor Launch (ML) Flotilla was about to embark from Milford Haven on one of the longest journeys undertaken by such small craft in modern times. Other MLs had gone out t …
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Shortly after I finished my training in 1943 at Wrexham Memorial Hospital, I volunteered to join the Army as a QAIMNS/R or QAs as they were called. I was accepted and became I. Pritchard Sister QAIMNS …
