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PALEL HILLS 6-8 MAY 1944

THE PALEL HILLS WERE CLEARED BY 48 BRIGADE AFTER A SERIES SHORT ACTIONS AROUND LLANGOL. THIS RELIEVED THE JAPANESE PRESSURE IMPHAL FROM THE EAST.

OF ON

MILESTONE 33, TIDDIM ROAD 15-30 MAY 1944

48 BRIGADE INFILTRATED BEHIND THE ENEMY AT IMPHAL AND FORMED A ROAD BLOCK AT MILESTONE 33. THEY HELD THE ROAD BLOCK AND PREVENTED

REINFORCEMENTS MOVING ENEMY

UP TO IMPHAL WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CAUSING A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES TO THE JAPANESE. AS A RESULT THE REMAINDER OF

17 DIVISION WERE ABLE TO DESTROY THE ENEMY 33RD DIVISION PIECEMEAL IN FRONT OF IMPHAL.

MEIKTILA EAST 2 MARCH 1945

WAS

THE JAPANESE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO HALT THE ADVANCE AT MEIKTILA. 48 BRIGADE IN CONJUNCTION WITH 225 BRIGADE CAPTURED THE EASTERN HALF OF MEIKTILA TOWN AFTER A VERY FIGHT.

INTO INDIAN

BURMA

TANK

HEAVY

DEFENCE OF MEIKTILA 5-29 MARCH 1945

THE JAPANESE THREW ALL OF THEIR RESERVES INTO AN ATTACK ON MEIKTILA IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECAPTURE THE TOWN AND REGAIN THE

ON THE BATTLE WAS HARD FOUGHT WITH MANY CASUALTIES INITIATIVE.

EACH

SIDE.

PYAWBWE 10-17 APRIL 1945

IN PYAWBWE 48 BRIGADE CLEARED THE CANTONMENT AREA OF THE TOWN IN FIERCE HAND TO HAND FIGHTING.

PEGU 26-30 APRIL 1945

PEGU WAS THE LAST MAJOR BATTLE OF THE BURMA WAR AND WAS THE БІТЕ

1942 OF 48 BRIGADE'S FIRST BATTLE AFTER THE SITTANG DISASTER IN

OF WHEN THEY BROKE THROUGH THE JAPANESE ENCIRCLEMENT AT THE BEGINNING THE WITHDRAWAL FROM BURMA.

RANGOON ROAD MARCH APRIL 1945

-

ROAD

48 BRIGADE WAS INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS ACTIONS ALONG THE RANGOON DURING THIS PERIOD. THE REMNANTS OF THE JAPANESE ARMY DESTROYED AS THEY LEFT THE COVER OF THE PEGU YOMAS HILLS.

WERE

/BURMA CAMPAIGN