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Tango01  | 02 Jan 2025 11:29 a.m. PST |
… her grandfather who fought in the Battle of Kohima during World War II
"In Kohima, once an outpost of the British Raj, the air is often swollen with rain. When the clouds lift, they unveil a blue-green baize of hills with forests of bamboo and clusters of orchid. Kohima War Cemetery, often revered, mostly forgotten, stands tucked away on the gentle rise of Garrison Hill — a place of both revulsion and courage.
It was here, separated only by the few yards' span of a tennis court, that the British, Indians and Japanese fought in a World War II battle so savage and heroic that it was voted Britain's greatest ever. Row upon row of headstones — inscribed in English, and some in Devanagari and Arabic — mark the final resting place of 1,420 men of the Allied Forces. Under the burnt stubble of grass lie thousands of Japanese in mass graves, as birds sing from a cherry tree once used by snipers…"
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