USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A battalion of detachments was a unit of battalion size formed from smaller sub-units such as companies or from individual soldiers that had become detached from their parent units.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Battle of Kohima, the British and Indian forces had lost 4, 064 men, dead, missing and wounded. Against this the Japanese had lost 5, 764 battle casualties in the Kohima area, and many of the 31st Division subsequently died of disease or starvation, or took their own lives.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Army is divided into six operational commands (field armies) and one training command, each under the command of a Lieutenant General, who has an equal status to the Vice-Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS), working under the control of Army HQ in New Delhi.

Detailed explanation-4: -They intended to capture the British supply bases on the Imphal Plain and cut the road linking Dimapur and Imphal at Kohima. With Imphal in their hands, the Japanese would be able to interrupt air supplies to China. It would also give them a base from which to conduct air attacks against India.