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A final battle for Japan?

24th July 1945: Lord Mountbatten arrives in Berlin to discuss the final assault on Japan - but is then told 'the greatest secret of the war'.

Jul 26, 2025
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Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, sits astride a captured Japanese 75mm gun while addressing men of the Royal Armoured Corps in Mandalay, 21 March 1945.
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