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The RAF aiding Gurkhas during an attack on a hill near Palel

The RAF aiding Gurkhas during an attack on a hill near Palel

One of four photographs: The RAF aiding Gurkhas during an attack on a hill near Palel 1944. From a collection of 48 photographs relating to the Burma Campaign, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945). Gurkha soldiers of the Indian Army open fire with a Vickers machine-gun while in the distance aircraft of the Royal Air Force strike at Japanese positions during the latter?s drive along the Palel road towards Imphal in April 1944. Date: 1944

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Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944

Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944

British, West Africans and Gurkhas, the backbone of Wingates Burma Jungle forces, wait at the ramps to file into transports or gliders for the forward movement to Broadway, the invasion field behind the Japanese lines which was cleared and constructed as a base for fighter planes and bombers supporting the ground troops. Date: 1944

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