Armoured Fist: How tanks defeated the invasion of India
With Jack Bowsher
Part of our ongoing Burma Week series
   • Burma Week  

The Japanese invasion was halted by infantry holding on with grim determination in the hills and mountains of northeast India. But it was defeated and pushed back by the pinpoint firepower of tanks, painstaking brought to bear on terrain no one ever thought possible.

Jack Bowsher is a Head of History at a UK Secondary School (1118y/o), who has recently finished his Masters in Military History at the University of Wolverhampton. His dissertation was about tank warfare in Burma, and was supervised by Prof. John Buckley. In the summer of 2023 he spoke about his research on this topic at the annual festival of the popular Second World War podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk. His first book Forgotten Armour: tank warfare in Burma is due to published in the summer of 2024 by Chiselbury Publishing. He is @historybowsh on both Twitter and Instagram.
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The IWM film Jack refers to https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...

Credit to Patrick Rogers (From Delaware to India) for images used in this presentation
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