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Title
Maintaining the Box
Description
Colonel Tanahashi's 112th Infantry Regiment had moved into an encircling position around the “Administration Box” pressuring the beleaguered Commonwealth forces late on the 14th. During the morning of the 15th, the Japanese attacked “C Company Hill” just to the north of the “Western Gate” in another attempt to pry …
Publisher
Date
1944-02-15
Scenario#
AP113
Scenario Description
Colonel Tanahashi's 112th Infantry Regiment had moved into an encircling position around the “Administration Box” pressuring the beleaguered Commonwealth forces late on the 14th. During the morning of the 15th, the Japanese attacked “C Company Hill” just to the north of the “Western Gate” in another attempt to pry the “Box” from the stubborn grasp of the British. The Japanese were able to use the jungle to cover their approaches to the entrenched West Yorkshires until right on top of them, allowing Tanahashi to capture the hill and treaten “Ammo Hill” at the center of the “Box”. Capt. J.P. Roche of 2nd Battalion quickly dispatched Lees from the 25th Dragoons supported by A Company, West Yorkshires, to retake the lost ground before the Japanese could settle in.
Location
Sinzweya, Burma
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The fighting in the Burma campaign in 1944 was among the most severe in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It took place along the borders between Burma and India, and Burma and China, and involved the British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces, against the forces of Imperial Japan and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from the United Kingdom, British India and Africa. The Allies had overcome the logistic and organisational difficulties which had crippled their earlier efforts, and they were preparing to invade Japanese-occupied Burma at several widely separated points. The Japanese forestalled them by launching their own offensive into India, and this offensive became larger in scope than originally intended. By the end of the year, the Allies had achieved significant territorial gains only in one sector, the extreme north-east of Burma, but the Japanese attack on India had been defeated with very heavy casualties. This handicapped the Japanese attempts to defend Burma against renewed Allied offensives in the following year.
Narrative Source
Combatants
Japanese
British
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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