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Ankdammsman
Både 81st (West Africa) och 82nd (West Africa) Division stred i Burma, så nån av dem?
Korrekt!
Det var 81 (West African) Division jeg "oppdaget" for en tid tilbake, og den jeg tenkte på.
Deretter ble jeg klar over 82 (West African) Division, og begge svar hadde blitt godtatt.
Fra Wiki om 81 Division:
"The division was established as the 1st (West Africa) Division on 1 March 1943. Three days later it was renamed the 81st (West Africa) Division, taking the next vacant number in the list of British infantry divisions. The division's badge was a spider, in black on a yellow circular background. This spider was a reference to Ananse, a cunning character in Ashanti mythology, and drawn so that when a soldier raised his weapon to fire, the spider would appear to be going forwards.
The division arrived in India on 14 August 1943. The movement of the 5th (West Africa) Brigade was delayed, however, after the troopship which was to carry it was lost in the German attack on Convoy Faith off Portugal on the night of 11/12 July 1943. The 3rd (West Africa) Brigade was detached to the Chindits, and was intended to garrison jungle bases for the raiding columns. The remainder of the division took part in the second Arakan campaign from February to May, 1944, operating in the Kaladan Valley on the flank of Indian XV Corps.
In late March, substantial Japanese reinforcements (with some troops from the Indian National Army) outflanked the division and forced it to retreat over a range of hills out of the Kaladan valley into that of the Kalapanzin.
In August, the division re-entered the Kaladan valley, forcing the Japanese and Indian National Army to abandon Mowdok, a few miles east of the Indian / Burmese frontier. The division then advanced down the valley once again, reaching Myohaung near the mouth of the river on 28 January 1945.
The division was withdrawn to India to rest on 22 April 1945. On 31 August, it was returned to West Africa and disbanded."
