DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 170, Year 2012 - Page 24
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when, being a clear night, Japanese aircraft made an attack on Calcutta. I believe they could have been army-type bombers. Flying a Hurricane, FS Pring soon sighted these Jap planes closing in on thei …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 170, Year 2012 - Page 25
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vacated the stronghold. The air strip was also temporarily recaptured for the evacuation of the guns. Charles Wright moved back to India as his original Tare troop, which was still in Sylhet, was sche …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 170, Year 2012 - Page 26
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RSM Livingstone. Arries, Cooke and Fraser-Wilson had all served in Northern section’s HQ and had come to be with column 8 after the mass dispersal at the Irrawaddy River on the 29th March. The rest of …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 170, Year 2012 - Page 27
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Percy and I were called to see the transit officers who informed me that at the Battalion of the Welsh Regiment there were no vacancies for junior officers and was told to wait until some alternative …
DEKHO! The Journal of The Burma Star Association - Issue No. 170, Year 2012 - Page 28
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to allow the medical orderlies to attend to me, I kept myself clean. I was becoming very frustrated. Then in February what I can only describe as a miracle happened. One Colonel Nicholas, a high ranki …