by Frank McLynn
Chapter Nine
pp. 183–208
• 1. A.N. Wilson, After the Victorians (2005), pp. 493–4. • 2. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (1985), pp. 126–7. • 3. Ibid., p. 146. • 4. Ibid., p. 172. • 5. Ibid., p. 146. • 6. C.P. Stacey, Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War (Ottawa, 1966), i, pp. 340–99. • 7. Julian Thompson, The Royal Marines (2001), pp. 263–9. • 8. This issue and all others concerning Dieppe is examined exhaustively in Brian Loring Villa, Unauthorised Action. Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid (Toronto, 1989). • 9. Nigel Hamilton, Monty. The Making of a General (1981), pp. 547–56. • 10. R. Lyman, The Generals (2005), p. 190. • 11. Alanbrooke Diaries, pp. 242, 357, 388. • 12. This was the operation Mountbatten dubbed ‘Habbakuk’ (ibid., p. 438). • 13. Ibid., pp. 445–6. • 14. Ibid., pp. 400–1. • 15. David Faber, Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery: The Tragedy of a Political Family (2005), pp. 374–76. • 16. Victoria Schofield, Wavell. Soldier and Statesman (2006), p. 279; Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide (1956), p. 612. • 17. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate (1995), p. 270. • 18. For American opposition to Sholto Douglas and enthusiasm for Tedder see Forrest Pogue, George C. Marshall. Organizer of Victory 1943–1945 (1973), p. 258. For all the rejected candidates see John J. Sbrega, ‘Anglo-American Relations and the Selection of Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia’, Military Affairs 46 (1982), pp. 139–45. For FDR’s dislike of Sholto Douglas see Pogue, Organizer of Victory, op. cit., p. 259. Tedder has had several biographies. See Vincent Orange, Tedder (2004); Roderick Owen, Tedder (1952). Sholto Douglas has fared less well, but see K. Probert, High Commanders of the RAF (1991). • 19. Oliver Warner, Cunningham of Hyndhope (1967), p. 222; cf. also Michael Simpson, A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham (2004); John Winton, Cunningham. The Greatest Admiral since Nelson (1998); Stephen Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals (1977). • 20. Wilson was described by Richard Mead in Churchill’s Generals (2007), p. 496, as ‘sound but not spectacular’. His own account of these years is in Eight Years Overseas, 1939–1947 (1948). • 21. Anthony Eden, The Reckoning (1965), p. 404. • 22. Ronald Lewin, Churchill as Warlord (1973), p. 214. • 23. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 437; Bryant, Turn of the Tide, op. cit., p. 693. • 24. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 220. • 25. John Connell, Auchinleck (1959), pp. 749–51; Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 222. • 26. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 441. For Churchill’s earlier promises see pp. 420, 427, 429. • 27. John Harvey, ed., The War Diaries of Oliver Harvey (1978), p. 286. • 28. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (NY, 1946), pp. 71–2. • 29. H.G. Nicholas, Washington Despatches (1981), pp. 248–52. • 30. Peter Lyon, Eisenhower, Portrait of a Hero (NY, 1974), p. 69. • 31. Albert Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports! (NY, 1958), pp. 136, 250, 273. • 32. Michael Gannon, Operation Drumbeat (NY, 1991), p. 168. • 33. See Thomas B. Buell, Master of Sea Power. A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Annapolis, 1995); John Lehmann, On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships and Epic Battles of the American Navy (NY, 2002). See also John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan. Alternatives to the Bomb (SC, 2000). • 34. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 359; Pogue, Organizer of Victory, op. cit., p. 305. • 35. Buell, Master of Sea Power, op. cit., p. 487. • 36. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 217. • 37. Ibid. pp. 223–4. • 38. Alanbrooke Diaries, pp. 451–2. • 39. SP, p. 209. • 40. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 235. • 41. Philip Mason, A Shaft of Sunlight (1978), pp. 177–8. • 42. Philip Ziegler, ed., Personal Diary of Admiral The Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943–1946 (1988), p. 6 (hereinafter Mountbatten Diary). • 43. Brian Bond, ed., Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall. Vol. 2 1940–1944 (1974), pp. 110–11 (hereinafter Pownall Diaries). • 44. Connell, Auchinleck, op. cit., p. 762. • 45. Pendell Moon, ed., The Viceroy’s Journal (1973), p. 15. • 46. Mountbatten Diary, pp. 7–8; Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports!, op. cit., p. 252. • 47. Pownall Diaries, p. 117. • 48. Roger Parkinson, The Auk (1977), p. 245. • 49. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., pp. 231–4. • 50. Bryant, Turn of the Tide, op. cit., p. 693; Lewin, Churchill as Warlord, op. cit., p. 214; Eden, Reckoning, op. cit., p. 404. • 51. Moon, ed., Viceroy’s Journal, op. cit., p. 15. • 52. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports, op. cit., p. 255. • 53. Pownall Diaries, 11 March 1944. • 54. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., pp. 239–40. • 55. Mountbatten Diary, p. 8. • 56. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 212. • 57. SP, p. 218; Mountbatten Diary, p. 10. • 58. Donovan Webster, The Burma Road (2004), pp. 271–2. • 59. Barbara Tuchman, Sand against the Wind (1971), p. 385. • 60. Ibid. • 61. Webster, Burma Road, op. cit., p. 147. • 62. This section is based on knowledge gleaned from the following sources: Daniel Marston, The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Honolulu (2005); John H. Bradley, Thomas B. Buell & Thomas E. Griers, eds., The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific (2003). • 63. F. Eldridge, Wrath in Burma (NY, 1946), p. 200. • 64. Pownall Diaries, p. 139. • 65. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 404. • 66. SP, p. 211. • 67. MP, iv, pp. 158–9. • 68. Ibid., iv, pp. 135, 139, 200; C.F. Romanus and R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Personal File. China-Burma-India 1942–1944, 5 vols. (Wilmington, Del., 1976), iii, 950. • 69. Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo (Harvard, 2009), p. 239. • 70. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., pp. 389–92; Hannah Pakula, The Last Empress (2010), pp. 462–5. • 71. SP, p. 217. • 72. Hsi-heng Ch’i, Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982), pp. 113–14. Taylor, Generalissimo, op. cit., p. 256, notes the attempted coup but quickly moves on. Once again, he cannot explain why, if Chiang was a peerless leader and there was no corruption in KMT China, there should have been a coup attempt in the first place. • 73. Joseph W. Alsop, I’ve Seen the Best (NY, 1992), pp. 224–5. • 74. SP, pp. 213–20. • 75. Mountbatten Diary, p. 12. • 76. SP, p. 218. • 77. Ibid., p. 220. • 78. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 394. • 79. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 244. • 80. SP, p. 221. • 81. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 245. • 82. Mountbatten Diary, p. 13. • 83. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 395. • 84. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 243. • 85. Mountbatten Diary, p. 11. • 86. Ibid., p. 15. • 87. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 245. • 88. Mountbatten Diary, pp. 16–17. • 89. Pownall Diaries, p. 116. • 90. Elliott Roosevelt, ed., The Personal Letters of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 2 vols. (NY, 1950), ii, p. 1468. • 91. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 247. • 92. SP, p. 223. • 93. Ibid., p. 222; Mountbatten Diary, p. 21. • 94. SP, p. 222; Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 396.
Chapter Ten
pp. 209–231
• 1. DIV, p. 169. • 2. Mountbatten Diary, p. 19. • 3. Robert Lyman, The Generals (2005), pp. 211–16. • 4. DIV, pp. 192, 202. • 5. David Rooney, Wingate and the Chindits (1994), p. 211. • 6. DIV, pp. 202–3; Lyman, Generals, op. cit., p. 205. • 7. Ronald Lewin, Slim. The Standard Bearer (1976), pp. 128–9. • 8. DIV, pp. 199–201. • 9. Lewin, Slim, op. cit., p. 132. • 10. Michael Howard, Grand Strategy (1972), iii; p. 578. • 11. S.W. Kirby, ed., The War against Japan. The Decisive Battles (1961), Appendix 3. • 12. Lewin, Slim, op. cit., p. 129. • 13. Mountbatten Diary, pp. 22–3. • 14. Ibid., pp. 27–8; Christopher Sykes, Orde Wingate (1959), pp. 476–81. • 15. Barbara Tuchman, Sand against the Wind (1971), p. 397. • 16. Robert Dallek, Franklin Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (Oxford, 1979), pp. 406–41. • 17. See Don Lohbeck, Patrick J. Hurley (Chicago, 1956); Russell D. Buhite, Patrick J. Hurley and American Foreign Policy (Ithaca, NY, 1973). For his rigidly anti-Communist and pro-Chiang posture see T. White & A. Jacoby, Thunder out of China (NY, 1946) pp. 199, 208–11, 249–52; Michael Schaller, The United States and China in the Twentieth Century (NY, 1979), p. 99. For Hurley’s errands for FDR see Lohbeck, Patrick J. Hurley, op. cit., pp. 15–86, 159–64. • 18. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 397. • 19. SP, p. 226. • 20. Ibid., p. 224. • 21. Ibid., p. 227. • 22. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit. • 23. Ibid. �
�� 24. Brian Crozier, The Man Who Lost China (1976), p. 249. • 25. Hannah Pakula, The Last Empress (2010), p. 469. • 26. Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War (NY, 1967), p. 357. • 27. C.F. Romanus & R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Mission to China (Washington DC, 1953), pp. 56–7, 352. • 28. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 477. • 29. Mountbatten Diaries, p. 31. • 30. Arthur Bryant, Triumph in the West (1959), p. 44. • 31. W.S. Churchill, The Second World War (1950), v, p. 78. • 32. Stephen Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals (1977), p. 219. • 33. Churchill, Second World War, op. cit., iv, p. 119. • 34. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (NY, 1946), p. 144; William D. Leahy, I Was There (NY, 1950), p. 236. • 35. SP, p. 230. • 36. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (1985), pp. 260–1. • 37. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 478. • 38. Ibid., pp. 277–8. • 39. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 403. • 40. Mountbatten Diary, p. 43. • 41. Alanbrooke Diaries, pp. 479–80. • 42. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 403. • 43. Churchill, Second World War, op. cit., v, pp. 328–9. • 44. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 480. • 45. SP, p. 232; Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 403. • 46. SP, p. 232. • 47. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 404. Needless to say, Chiang’s great admirer Jay Taylor denies the truth of the story. He says Chiang knew all about rainy seasons but was simply ignorant of the particular word ‘monsoon’. As a secondary defence he blames the quality of Madame’s interpreting: Taylor, The Generalissimo (Harvard, 2009), p. 248. • 48. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 262. • 49. Mountbatten Diary, p. 34. • 50. Ibid., p. 35; Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 481. • 51. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 405. • 52. SP, p. 232. • 53. Mountbatten Diary, p. 36. • 54. Ibid., pp. 37–8. • 55. Ibid., pp. 39–40. • 56. SP, pp. 233–5. • 57. Churchill, Second World War, op. cit., p. 328. • 58. The Tehran conference is very well covered in the Alanbrooke Diaries, pp. 482–92. • 59. Pug Ismay, Memoirs of Lord Ismay (1960), pp. 336–42; Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 263. • 60. Churchill, Second World War, op. cit., p. 412; Pendell Moon, ed., The Viceroy’s Journal (1973), pp. 39–40. • 61. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (NY, 1948), pp. 773–9; Sumner Welles, Seven Decisions that Shaped History (NY, 1950), p. 151; Roosevelt, As He Saw It, op. cit., p. 154; Ross T. McIntyre, White House Physician (NY, 1946), p. 167. • 62. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 409. • 63. Ibid, p. 411. • 64. There is very good coverage of all this in John Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries (Boston, 1967), iii, pp. 103–19. • 65. Ibid., pp. 110–19. • 66. SP, pp. 236–9; Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., pp. 409–10. • 67. SP, p. 233. • 68. Ibid., pp. 246–7. • 69. Ibid., p. 248. • 70. Ibid., pp. 249–50. • 71. Herbert Feis, The China Tangle. The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission (Princeton, 1953), pp. 120–1; Arthur Young, China and the Helping Hand, 1939–1945 (Harvard, 1963), p. 40. • 72. Feis, China Tangle, op. cit., p. 127; C.F. Romanus & R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Command Problems (Washington, 1956), pp. 298–301. • 73. F. Dorn, Walkout. With Stilwell in Burma (NY, 1971), p. 145. • 74. Larry I. Bland, ed., George C. Marshall. Interviews and Reminiscences for Forrest C. Pogue (Lexington, VA, 1996), p. 605. • 75. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, op. cit., pp. 408, 513, 706–7, 739. • 76. MP, iv, pp. 302–3. Here was Marshall at his angriest. Referring to Alsop’s correspondence with Soong, he wrote to FDR: ‘It means to me that Alsop is either more competent as a commander than Stilwell or as a General Staff expert than the officers we have out there (which would continue him in the class with some other columnists and commentators), or that he is a seriously destructive force … I am of the opinion that we will be placing our command and control in the Burma-China theatre on a foundation of sand if we accept subordinates who are determinedly critical and disloyal to the commander whom we charge with the responsibility for our soldiers and operations in that theatre.’ • 77. Ibid., iii, p. 482. • 78. Albert Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports! (NY, 1958), pp. 246–9. • 79. Ibid., pp. 222–5.
Chapter Eleven
pp. 232–257
• 1. DIV, pp. 204, 214. • 2. M. Boatner, The Biographical Dictionary of World War Two (Novato, CA, 1996), p. 429; E.L. Fischer, The Chancy War. Winning in China, Burma and India in World War Two (NY, 1991), pp. 30–1; L. Anders, The Ledo Road, General Joseph W. Stilwell’s Highway to China (Norman, OK, 1965), pp. 88–104. • 3. ‘The North Burma Campaign: Ledo to Myitkyina. A Background History’, WO 203/2672; Anders, Ledo Road, op. cit., pp. 101–3; E.R. Craine, Burma Roadsters (Tucson, AZ, 1992), pp. 85–7. • 4. Ho, Y-c, The Big Circle (NY, 1948), pp. 64–6. • 5. Ronald Lewin, Ultra Goes to War (1978), pp. 254–5; Lewin, The Other Ultra (1982), p. 244. For the OSS operations among the Kachins see R. Hilsman, American Guerrillas. My War Behind American Lines (Washington DC, 1990), pp. 137–8, 297–8; W.R. Peers & D. Breslis, Behind the Burma Road (1963), pp. 120–32; R. Dunlop, Behind Japanese Lines. With the OSS in Burma (Chicago, 1979), pp. 21–3; W. Langer, In and Out of the Ivory Tower (NY, 1977), p. 187; cf. also J.S. Fletcher, Secret War in Burma (Austell, GA, 1997); Sharon E. Karr, Traveller of the Crossroads (Jacksonville, OR, 1996). • 6. SP, p. 255. • 7. DIV, p. 252. • 8. G.S. Seagrave, Burma Surgeon Returns (NY, 1946), p. 94; DIV, p. 253. • 9. C.F. Romanus & R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Command Problems (Washington, 1956), pp. 122–8. • 10. Barbara Tuchman, Sand against the Wind (1971), p. 420. • 11. DIV, p. 254. • 12. Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. S.B. Griffiths (Oxford 1963), p. 109. • 13. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 419. • 14. David Rooney, Stilwell (1971), p. 97. • 15. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 423. • 16. F.F. Lin, A Military History of Modern China 1924–1949 (Princeton, 1956), p. 189. • 17. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 432. • 18. For Wedemeyer’s key role in Sino-American relations see Herbert Feis, The China Tangle (Princeton, 1953); William Strueck, The Wedemeyer Mission. American Politics and Foreign Policy during the Cold War (Georgia, 1984); Tang Tsou, America’s Failure in China 1941–50 (NY, 1963); cf. also Tang Tsou, ‘The Historians and the Generals’, Pacific Historical Review 31 (1962), pp. 41–8. • 19. Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey (1950), p. 259. • 20. Pownall Diaries, p. 32. • 21. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (1985), pp. 248–9. • 22. Ibid., p. 252. • 23. Owen’s account of his time with Mountbatten is in The Campaign in Burma (1946). For his career in general see Michael Foot’s reflections in Bill Hagerty, ‘The real commander’, British Journalism Review 13 (2002), pp. 19–31. See also S.P. Mackenzie, ‘Vox Populi: British Army Newspapers in the Second World War’, Journal of Contemporary History 24 (1989), pp. 665–81. • 24. Michael Edwardes, The Last Years of British India (1963), p. 147. • 25. John Connell, Auchinleck (1959), p. 777. • 26. Lowell Thomas, Back to Mandalay (1952), pp. 118–19. • 27. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 256. For Joubert see his own autobiography The Fatal Sky (1952). For his work with RAF Coastal Command see Roy Conyers Nesbit, RAF Coastal Command in Action 1939–45 (1997), and Andrew Kendrie, The Cinderella Service; RAF Coastal Command 1939–1945 (2006). • 28. Mountbatten Diary, pp. 55, 68. • 29. Cunningham diary, 11 December 1945, Add. MSS 52, 578. • 30. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 248. • 31. Mountbatten Diary, pp. 40–1. • 32. W.F. Craven & G.L. Crate, The Army Air Forces in World War Two. Volume 4. The Pacific. Guadalcanal to Saipan (Chicago, 1950), p. 450. • 33. SP, p. 256. • 34. Mountbatten Diary, p. 54. • 35. SP, pp. 258–9. • 36. Shelford Bidwell, The Chindit War (1979), p. 32. For Stilwell’s obsession with what he perceived as cowardly behaviour see Robert Farquharson, For Your Tomorrow. Canadians and the Burma Campaign 1941–45 (2004), p. 59; John Masters, The Road Past Mandalay (1961), pp. 309–10. • 37. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., pp. 423–4. • 38. DIV, p. 205. • 39. Ibid., p. 206. • 40. Ibid., pp. 206–7. • 41. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 424. • 42. DIV, p. 207. • 43. Ronald Lewin, Slim. The Standard Bearer (1976), pp. 141–2. • 44. Don Moser, China, Burma, India (Alexandria, VA, 1978), p. 119. • 45. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., p. 264. • 46. Alanbrooke Diaries, p. 521; Arthur Bryant, Tri
umph in the West (1959), pp. 147–8. • 47. C.F. Romanus & R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Mission to China (Washington DC, 1953), p. 164. • 48. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., pp. 427, 430. • 49. Albert Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports! (NY, 1958), p. 258. • 50. SP, p. 259; Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 230. • 51. W.S. Churchill, The Second World War (1950), v pp. 560–573. • 52. SP, p. 259. • 53. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., pp. 430–1. • 54. Romanus & Sunderland, Stilwell’s Command Problems, op. cit., pp. 161–3. • 55. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 425. • 56. The order from Marshall to eat humble pie is at MP, iv, pp. 321–2. • 57. Ziegler, Mountbatten, op. cit., pp. 266–7. • 58. Tuchman, Sand against the Wind, op. cit., p. 432. • 59. SP, p. 258. • 60. Romanus & Sunderland, Stilwell’s Command Problems, op. cit., pp. 162–3, 171–2. • 61. MP, iv, p. 250. • 62. Warren F. Kimball, ed., Churchill and Roosevelt. The Complete Correspondence, 3 vols. (Princeton, 1984), ii, pp. 690, 694. • 63. MP, iv, pp. 372–3; 500–5; C.F. Romanus & R. Sunderland, Stilwell’s Personal File. China-Burma-India 1942–1944, 5 vols. (Wilmington, Del., 1976), iv, 1554. • 64. MP, pp. 365–7. • 65. DIV, p. 184. • 66. Lewin, Slim, op. cit., p. 136. • 67. Geoffrey Evans, Slim as Military Commander (1969), p. 87. • 68. Pendell Moon, ed., The Viceroy’s Journal (1973), pp. 73–77. • 69. DIV, p. 226. • 70. M.R. Roberts, The Golden Arrow (Aldershot, 1952), p. 39. • 71. For the Admin Box see Louis Allen, Burma. The Longest War 1941–45 (1984), pp. 179–80; Jon Latimer, Burma. The Forgotten War (2004), p. 228. • 72. Robert Lyman, Slim, Master of War (2004), pp. 151–2. • 73. Lewin, Slim, op. cit., p. 139. • 74. ‘Report by HQ 5th Indian Division on the first attack on Razabil Fortress’, WO 203/1793. • 75. G. Betham & H.V.R. Geary, The Golden Gallery: the Story of the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1761–1947 (Oxford, 1956) pp. 276–9. • 76. DIV, pp. 231–5. • 77. A. Swinson, Four Samurai: A Quartet of Japanese Commanders in the Second World War (1968), pp. 115–50. • 78. Allen, Burma, op. cit., pp. 150–73. • 79. Ibid., pp. 182–6. • 80. Ibid., p. 185. • 81. G. Evans, The Desert and the Jungle (1959), pp. 134–9; E.W.C. Sanders, From Pyramid to Pagoda (1952), pp. 171–2. • 82. K. Tamayama & J. Nunnerley, Tales by Japanese Soldiers of the Burma Campaign 1942–1945 (2000), p. 148. • 83. DIV, pp. 240–3. • 84. There are accounts of the later Razabil operations at WO 203/1793 and 203/1175. See also Roberts, Golden Arrow, op. cit., pp. 107–8; D.P. Marston, Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign (Westport, CT, 2003), pp. 132–4. • 85. DIV, p. 230. • 86. Marston, Phoenix, op. cit., pp. 134–7. • 87. Mountbatten Diary, p. 66. • 88. DIV, pp. 246–7. • 89. Mike Calvert, Slim (1973), p. 83; A.J. Barker, The March on Delhi (1963), p. 92. • 90. Lewin, Slim, op. cit., p. 157; Lyman, Slim, op. cit., pp. 162–3. • 91. DIV, p. 233. • 92. N.R.L. Franks, Spitfires over the Arakan (1988), pp. 50–9, 114, 137, 145. • 93. H. Probert, The Forgotten Air Force: the RAF in the War against Japan, 1942–1945 (1995), pp. 168–72; N.R.L. Franks, First in the Indian Skies (1981), pp. 104–6; D.J. Innes, Beaufighters over Burma (Poole, 1985), p. 93; H. St G. Saunders, Royal Air Force 1939–1945 (1975), iii, pp. 318–22. • 94. Allen, Burma, op. cit., p. 178. • 95. Probert, Forgotten Air Force, op. cit., pp. 158–60. • 96. DIV, p. 240.