On this day in military history

@wonkywinky just over the border in India. As I said, I think it was the largest allied mainland victory; certainly the largest in the Burma -India theatre. I don't know much about the campaigns in China to compare, though. I think - only think - there were 50,000 Japanese casualties.

@MandyMitchell Japan did its best to overrun China from about 1937,and occupied a smallish portion of the vast country.The Chinese resisted well with US help of course,then in August 1945 the Red Army attacked them in Manchuria and the defeat was brought about.

@wonkywinky Yes indeed - the troubles began in 1931 in Manchuria and spread. The Japanese had a small war with the USSR in 1939 and were heavily defeated, but expanded their invasion of China with terrible atrocities which the Chinese have still not forgotten. Britain sent supplies via Burma and by air from India, while a small US force and some British/Indian Chindits gave some assistance in 1944. Britain pushed at the Japs in Burma as well, bleeding their armies. Russia joined in once the German war was over.

@wonkywinky 9th April 1865.

@MandyMitchell Ahhh,close but no cigar lol.

@Texuk In both cases; in the First World War Haig was pushing back the Germans, defeating them in battle after battle after four years of absolute carnage, and in the Second World War, Kohima marked the Japanese High Tide and Slim- in my opinion the best general of the war - pushed them back all the way to Rangoon.

@MandyMitchell yes again thankfully all sides of the Axis ultimately overreached

@Texuk as you say - thankfully.