Up around Imphal/Kohima it was not so simple, as in the ferocious close combat in the last battles, we dare not go for troops as they were so closely intermingled, but helped by destroying roads and bridges which the Jap needed to get up his supplies.
Danny, slight thread drift, but I would like to thank you on behalf of my late stepfather Col (later Brig) Hugh Richards, who was Garrison Commander during the battle. As you know, it was so finely balanced that any action to disrupt the Japanese attack could have swung the result. Sadly he didn't talk much about it and I didn't at the time know what questions to ask.