Pagoda Hill – Mandalay – March 10, 1945
Machine gunners of the 19th Indian Division on Pagoda Hill 1945. As the British XIVth Army burst onto the central plains of Burma, General William Slim assigned the 19th Indian Division the job of seizing the ancient capital of Mandalay. Looming 700 feet above the walled citadel was a pagoda-covered hill that the Japanese defenders […]
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