BURMA WAS WON AT KOHIMA
(Press Assn.-
MOUNTBATTEN'S PRAISE ARMY ALMOST WHOLLY SUPPLIED BY AIR
—Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
LONDON; Dec. 14. The former Supreme Commander in South-east Asia, Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, has been speaking to ex-servicemen about the battle of Kohima. He said it was, In effeet, the Battle of Burma. Ke said he did not want to belittle the crossing of the Rhine, but he pointed *mt that the troops there had all the necessary equipment and the Rhine was only one-fifth as wide ■as the' Irrawaddy. The supplying of the 14th Army by air was a military feat never before seen in warfare. The aircraft in the command flew double hours of normal operations and the tonnage lifted was 96 per cent of everything sent to the Army. , The vice-chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Simpson, is malcing a fortnight's visit to Malaya.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5
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146BURMA WAS WON AT KOHIMA Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5
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