Snipped from http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144913&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231190&home=yes&more_nodeId1=144922&contentPK=20497561 REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ARMY Date : 29.04.08 Up to one million troops faced death, injury and disease every day during the long campaign to push the Japanese out of Burma. They were the Forgotten Army - out of sight and, to most of the British public, out of mind. Their leader, General Bill Slim, is only now being properly remembered in Bristol, the city of his birth. TORBEN LEE tells the story of Slim's Heroes. Huge distances, appalling weather, difficult terrain, tortuous lines of communication, rampant diseases, the strange jungle environment and the seemingly unbeatable Japanese. That, along with the low priority his campaign held in Allied strategy, is how Bristol-born Bill Slim, commander of the 14th Army, remembered the Burma Campaign of 1943-45. [snip] ======================= ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India