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978-0-330-50997-8. Defeat into Victory is an account of the retaking of Burma by Allied forces during the Second World War by the British Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and published in the UK by Cassell in 1956. It was published in the United States as Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942–1945 by David ...
Slim, Field Marshal the Viscount William J. (1961) [1956]. Defeat into Victory (Shortened ed.). New York: McKay. OCLC 396091. (Stone & Stone, 1 August 1997. Note: The original edition contains more detailed description of operations than does the 1961 edition.) Weinberg, Gerhard (2005). A World in Arms A Global History of World War II
The most important contribution to the Allied victory was made by British and American transport aircraft. The Allies could fly men, equipment and supplies into the airstrips at Imphal (and Pallel also, until the onset of the monsoon rains), so, although cut off by land, the town had a lifeline. By the end of the battle, the Allied air forces ...
William Slim, Defeat into Victory, London: Cassell, 1956. Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942–1945 , London: Pan Macmillan, 2003. James Howard Williams ( Elephant Bill ), was Elephant Advisor to the Fourteenth Army, see his Elephant Bill (1950) and Bandoola (1953)
15,888 wounded and missing [1] 6,513 killed. 6,299 wounded and missing [1] The concurrent Battle of Meiktila and Battle of Mandalay were decisive engagements near the end of the Burma campaign during World War II. Collectively, they are sometimes referred to as the Battle of Central Burma. Despite logistical difficulties, the Allies were able ...
Japanese invasion of Burma. Part of the Burma campaign, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II. View of the Yenangyaung oil field on 16 April 1942 after its destruction ahead of the Japanese advance. Date. 14 December 1941 – 28 May 1942. (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)
The British Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant General William Slim made the main Allied thrust, codenamed Operation Capital, into central Burma. It consisted of IV Corps under Lieutenant General Frank Messervy and XXXIII Corps under Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford , together controlling six infantry divisions, two armoured brigades and three ...
— Slim – Defeat into Victory [6] The division then moved on to North Africa , reaching Halfaya Pass on 4 June to take part in the Western Desert Campaign . [ 7 ] Initially the 10th Indian Infantry Division was committed piecemeal with units involved at El Adem and Sidi Rezegh during the 1942 Battle of Gazala .