Hill 170

During Operation Talon, a British offensive in the Arakan area of Burma, the 3rd Commando Brigade landed on January 22, 1945 on the banks of the Daingbon Chaung. Their objective was to capture the village of Kangaw and to cut …

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During Operation Talon, a British offensive in the Arakan area of Burma, the 3rd Commando Brigade landed on January 22, 1945 on the banks of the Daingbon Chaung. Their objective was to capture the village of Kangaw and to cut the Japanese retreat. However, the 54th Japanese division made a fierce Resistance and the battle lasted ten days in difficult terrain of mangrove, jungle, and steep hills. On January 31st, the 2nd battalion of 154th Japanese Infantry Regiment attacked Hill 170 held by Troop 4 of 1st Commando, Troop W of 42nd Royal Marine Commando and a Sherman tank platoon of the 19th Lancers. The tanks were quickly destroyed, with Troop 4 under heavy fire of mortars, machine-guns and snipers. The Japanese infantry launched several banzaï charges which were often only repulsed after close combat. The battle of Hill 170 lasted all that day; in the evening, the defenders were finally relieved. Next morning, the British commandos found more than 340 Japanese killed on the slopes of Hill 170, while on their side they had suffered 45 dead and 90 wounded.

Kangaw, Burma

The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily involved forces of the Allies; the British Empire and the Republic of China, with support from the United States. They faced against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, who were supported by the Thai Phayap Army, as well as two collaborationist independence movements and armies, the first being the Burma Independence Army, which spearheaded the initial attacks against the country. Puppet states were established in the conquered areas and territories were annexed, while the international Allied force in British India launched several failed offensives. During the later 1944 offensive into India and subsequent Allied recapture of Burma the Indian National Army, led by revolutionary Subhas C. Bose and his "Free India", were also fighting together with Japan. British Empire forces peaked at around 1,000,000 land and air forces, and were drawn primarily from British India, with British Army forces, 100,000 East and West African colonial troops, and smaller numbers of land and air forces from several other Dominions and Colonies.

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