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Jungle airstrips for the Chindits

10th May 1944: The hazardous business of building landing grounds in the jungles of Burma - the operating bases for behind-the-lines 'special forces'

May 10, 2024
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Levelling an airfield at ‘Broadway’ in March 1944

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