Clash of Warriors

For weeks after the D-Day Iandings, AIlied troops were pinned down in the dense Normandy bocage, the small fields, narrow lanes, and high hedgerows where German anti-tank ambushes and snipers inflicted mounting casualties. Their resistance would only be broken by a spectacular breakout action, and this vital task was entrusted to the flamboyant, hard-driving George Patton. Once his armoured units had been unleashed on the Allied right wing, and were swinging round behind the German defences there was little that Guenther Hans von Kluges battle-weary troops could do to hold the line.

When the Allies captured the airfield at Myitkyina in May 1944 it brought together two determined and ruthless commanders, General Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilwell and Lt. General Masaki Honda, in an uncompromising face off.