Word: chindwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma in March 1944, the British I-Wallahs were taken by surprise as the Japanese launched 100,000 men across the Chindwin River in what was to be the invasion of India. The 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment had been in the Arakan along the India-Burma border, fighting its own war with the Japanese. They had just learned this costly trade and had the Japanese on the run when they were pulled out north by river boat and truck and dumped on the mountain village of Kohima, a collection of huts 5,000 ft. high...
...world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...