Patrick Link’s Reviews > Burma: The Longest War 1941-45 > Status Update

Prelude to Kohima where a rushed 50th Indian Parachute Brigade held 11th Battalion, 58 Infantry Regiment of the 31st Division and parts of the 15th Division for a week at Sangshak 40 miles from Imphal in March, 1944.

The British blunted Japanese operation Ha Go in February 1944 in Arakan. Slim and Mountbatten were particularly heartened by the method. Previously, the Japanese would isolate British units and attack their retreat routes. This time in Arakan they held their ground and were resupplied by air. Now on to the Japanese invasion of India in March.

On the disaster of the Arakan campaign in early 1943. In a nutshell, the British highly overestimated their own abilities and grossly underestimated the Japanese which was pretty dumb considering what happened in 1942.