✦ History

Part of Burma campaign, Operation U-Go

Battle of Imphal

March 8 – July 3, 1944 · Imphal

Result British victory

Japan's offensive into India, which besieged Imphal and was defeated by the Fourteenth Army with the heaviest Japanese losses of the Burma campaign.

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Axis

Allies

Japan
United Kingdom
British Raj
Subhas Chandra Bose military commander Masakazu Kawabe military commander Renya Mutaguchi military commander
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim military commander Geoffrey Scoones military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
85,000
Casualties
54,879
Tanks
66
Strength
120,000
Casualties
12,603

Units

Fifteenth Army (Japan) Indian National Army 15th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 31st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 33rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 53rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom) IV Corps (India) 17 Mountain Division (India) 20th Indian Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Division (India) 254th Indian Tank Brigade

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