Jail Hill is held - at cost
15th May 1944: The vital position on the Kohima ridge is held after a week of bitter fighting
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In May 1944 the Queens Royal Regiment were already veterans of the campaign in Burma. They had been engaged in the Arakan campaign, where …
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