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On Mon. 08 may 1944 Brigadier William Lentaigne, commander of the Chin.....

1944-05-08

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Brigadier William Lentaigne, commander of the Chindit, flew to the front lines in Burma to meet with Michael Calvert, repeating the order to abandon the Broadway and White City sites of Operation Thursday in order to build a new forward base, Blackpool.

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