Word: imphal
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...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 in the jungle. Kohima was inconsiderable in the long, silent history of its mountains, except that it commanded the Imphal Road and the Ledo Railway, invasion highways. There the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kents, Colonel John Laverty commanding, took position on April Fool's Day, 1944. They had four days to dig in. There were 500 of them, and for the next 16 days they held off the 31st Japanese...
Found: in the rugged hills of the Indo-Burmese border near Imphal: the remains of Major General Orde Charles Wingate (the "Lawrence of Burma"), organizer of Wingate's Raiders, who died there in a 1944 plane crash...
...flooded bookstores with shelves of new map books. Mostly these were the new-style maps, with breath-taking views of the world, maps on which the U.S. appeared like a stretched-out tigerskin rug, on which Australia might be as compressed as a frankfurter, or on which Winnipeg or Imphal suddenly showed up as the center of the world. These were maps of global war, on which menacing arrows pointed unerringly at vital targets; maps of the air age, in which distances were measured not in miles but in flying time...
Their major offensive against India's Manipur state had been dangerous, and it had failed. They had been unable to capture the supply depots of Imphal and Kohima, they had been unable to cut the Bengal-Assam railway. Their offensive had fallen back before strong British counterattacks, would probably be washed out completely by the coming rains...
...another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez. Until last week, Manipur's tough little polo ponies, twelve hands high, thundered twice a week over Imphal fields to help the officers pass the time...