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Kohima - Operation C 1944

By: Critical Hit

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: Advanced Squad Leader - Pacific Theater


Product Info

Title
Kohima - Operation C 1944
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Publish Year
2019
Dimensions
9x12.5x.75"
NKG Part #
2147774764
MFG. Part #
ASL_Kohima
Type
Ziplock

Description

The battle of Kohima was the northern action of the Japanese U Go offensive, the southern part being fought around the Imphal plain. Whilst the battle of Imphal pitched Commonwealth and Japanese Corps against one another Kohima was a far more intimate affair fought over a small ridge only a few hundred yards in length and breadth, initially defended, by no more than fifteen hundred commonwealth troops who successfully held off the fifteen thousand men of Japanese 31st Division.

The battle was fought in two phases, first the garrison was surrounded and besieged by the Japanese (4th to 19th April 1944); then the Commonwealth forces recaptured the ground lost on the ridge in May 1944.

The battle was called the “Stalingrad of the Burma war” by a prominent Indian nationalist politician. Whilst the battle did not resemble Stalingrad in scale it effectively did to the Japanese army in Burma what Stalingrad did to the Germans in Russia; the Japanese army broke itself against the resolute defenders of Kohima and Imphal, was subjected to a fierce counter attack and then retreated in disarray back into Burma.

Contents:

  • Color Folio
  • Two Counter Sheets w/280 Counters
  • One Counter Sheet w/88 Counters
  • Six 18.5” x 12.5” Color Cardstock Map Boards
  • 15 Scenarios
  • 2 ASL Chapter Pages
Scenarios Included:

  • GPT - Kohima, India April 6th, 1944
  • Jail Hill - Kohima, India April 6th, 1944
  • Hit Back, Hard - Kohima, India April 7th, 1944
  • The Devil in the Detail - Kohima, India April 7th, 1944
  • Anyone for Tennis? - Kohima, India April 9th, 1944
  • Black 13th - Kohima, India April 13th, 1944
  • Breaking Point - Kohima, India May 12th, 1944
  • Garrison Hill - Kohima, India April 17th, 1944
  • To the Road of Bones - Kohima, India May 13th, 1944
  • Go Directly to Jail - Kohima, India April 7th, 1944
  • Hospital Case - Kohima, India April 8th, 1944
  • Last Gasp - Kohima, India April 23rd, 1944
  • Utmost Savagery - Kohima, India May 5th, 1944
  • Fatal Distraction - Kohima, India April 24th, 1944
  • White Tigers, Black Cats - Ningthoukhong, India April 22nd, 1944