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 : Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944


Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944

British, West Africans and Gurkhas, the backbone of Wingate's Burma Jungle forces, wait at the ramps to file into transports or gliders for the forward movement to aBroadway, the invasion field behind the Japanese lines which was cleared and constructed as a base for fighter planes and bombers supporting the ground troops

Picture No
10290871
Media ID
47901754
Size
4517px x 3503px (1.9MB)
Credit
(c)Imperial War Museum/Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans
Date
1944

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