DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 180, Year 2015 - Page 18
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I went around my men chatting away, shaking hands and congratulating ourselves that we had survived the war. In the wet and the gloom, though it was a bit subdued and low key, I felt it necessary to s …
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DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 13
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DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 14
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Mr Joyce, now 90, recalls seeing the Shwedagon from a distance, and then his vessel pulling in at a wharf at the southern end of Brookings Street (now Bogalay Zay Road). “We were alongside the wharf e …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 15
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They visited the places they had known many years before, finding Yangon’s downtown little different from 60 years earlier. In 2006, Joyce came back on his own (the sec- ond of four visits), determine …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 16
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19th Indian (Dagger) Division, had seized this intimidating feature from well-entrenched Japanese defenders in desperate fighting from 8 to 12 March 1945. After a refreshing and well-earned drink back …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 17
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ground of tactical importance, made eminent sense to the strategists in our party. . Turning paddy fields into airfields, often through the use of sympathetic local labour, was a practical and logical …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 18
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- - , - - - - ‘ hin wild boar’ With a novelist s imagination, Masters described the Blackpool feature as a crouc g . _ , . while using cricketing terms to identify the various knolls, ridges and spurs …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 183, Year 2016 - Page 19
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