Colonel Charles Mercer, who has died aged 105, took part in Operation Thursday, the codename of the second Chindit deep-penetration expedition into enemy-occupied Burma. In 1943 Mercer, then a second ...
LED BY Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, eight British columns last February secretly crossed from India through the Japanese lines into Burma and then for three months spread confusion and panic. The ...
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