Japanese bayonet wounded in hospital

7th February 1944: Japanese forces infiltrate a British hospital on the Burma - India border and murder the medical staff and the wounded

Sikhs of the 7th Indian Division at an observation post in the Ngakyeduak Pass area during the fierce fighting which followed the Japanese offensive launched on 6 February 1944.

British attacks into the Arakan, northern Burma, had been disappointing affairs during 1943 . Now, better-trained and more experienced troops began a new offensive, the Second Ar…