Drop zone Burma : adventures in allied air-supply 1943-45

282 Pages·2008·9.46 MB·English

by  Annett

Drop Zone Burma
Revised Page Proofs
August 2008

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Slim, OBE, DL
Preface by Dame Vera Lynn DBE
Prelude Dakota over the Fens
Chapter 1: Meet the Troops – and a Trouper
Chapter 2: First Burma Star
Chapter 3: The Fall of Burma
Chapter 4: 31 Squadron RAF
Chapter 5: Air Supply Pilot
Chapter 6: Bully and Bullets to the Chindits
Chapter 7: Dakotas Fly In
Chapter 8: Policeman to Pilot
Chapter 9: British Raj to Burma
Chapter 10: Air Dropping at Tiddim
Chapter 11: The Second Battle of the Arakan
Chapter 12: A Flight over the Hump
Chapter 13: Five More go off to War
Chapter 14: The Chindit Invasion
Chapter 15: The Sieges of Imphal and Kohima
Chapter 16: Two Casevacs
Chapter 17: Counterattack
Chapter 18: The Road to Mandalay
Chapter 19: The Race to Rangoon
Chapter 20: Victory in Burma
Chapter 21: First In, First Out
Chapter 22: Conflict Continues
Chapter 23: Civvy Street
Postlude
Bibliography

Air-drop south of Irrawaddy. (RAF Air Historical Branch)
Mobile Bath Unit arrives at forward airstrip. (IWM CF222)
Struggling in pre-monsoon winds. (IWM CF521)