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" Chindits, Burma "

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Tryphena

Tryphena Report 9 Oct 2003 21:34

Keith

Keith Report 10 Oct 2003 22:20

Nudge, nudge! Keith

Elizabeth A

Elizabeth A Report 10 Oct 2003 22:31

Might be a silly question - BUT what are/who are the Chindits? Liz

Elizabeth A

Elizabeth A Report 11 Oct 2003 01:23

William, Thanks very much - what a mine of information you are!! Apart from family history, I like history in general. Might deviate and look into the chindits a bit further. Thanks again Liz

Mike

Mike Report 11 Oct 2003 01:46

Right on, William! Definitely non-PC but I agree totally. Have you read 'The Naked Island' by the late Russell Braddon? He refers to one of his erstwhile captors, in Changi, I think of the Kempei-tai, as 'one of the regrettably few Japanese to commit hara-kiri'. How can one improve on that!?! Mike

Mike

Mike Report 11 Oct 2003 12:44

William I think 'The Knights of Bushido' was written by a different Russell - Earl Russell of Liverpool? - who also wrote a parallel work on the Nazis and their beguiling ways, 'The Scourge of the Swastika'. I read these and their like avidly as a teenager but now am sickened by them. Nonetheless, we will always need to know..... Mike

JillyWilly

JillyWilly Report 11 Oct 2003 14:30

Hi all I agree we need to know,as some people would never know what happend,my father was in Hiroshima and the photo's of the devistation half buildings standing the ground almost bare after the tidell wave that came.I remember him saying about the japs hanging grenades to fruit trees making them just like the fruit hanging there as soon as someone picked it boom!!! he said they were very cruel but clever.We don't no how lucky we are for all our soldiers most gave their lives for us. Jill

Elizabeth A

Elizabeth A Report 12 Oct 2003 03:13

As it is not long to Rememberance day - prehaps we can remember, in whatever way we feel able, to do. Liz

Keith

Keith Report 13 Oct 2003 00:16

If you want to know why we were right to drop the 2 A Bombs read a book called @Lighter then a feather'. It tells the fictional story of what the invasion of the main Japanese Islands would have been like had we not dropped the bombs. Up to half a million dead expected - on our side alone William You probably know that the Kings Liverpool Regiment were one of the units in the Chindits. My mothers neighbour was one of them - he was 18, and is still with us thank god