Battle of Imphal
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The Battle of Imphal, also known as the "Stalingrad of the East" in combination with Kohima, took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in Northeast India
Gurkhas advancing with Grant tanks to clear the Japanese from Imphal-Kohima road in North Eastern British India
Lt. Gen. Renya Mutaguchi, commanding Fifteenth Army
Lieutenant General William Slim, commanding Fourteenth Army
Lieutenant General Geoffry Scoones, commanding IV Corps
The British Fourteenth Army was a multi-national force comprising units from Commonwealth countries during the Second World War. It was composed of units of the British Army, many from the Indian Army
Portrait of William Slim, as commander of the Fourteenth Army, commissioned by the Ministry of Information.
Lt.-Gen. Slim, commanding the Fourteenth Army, chatting to a Gurkha rifleman. Near Pallel, November 1944.
Fourteenth Army memorial in Bristol