Battle of Imphal Tours expands WWII tours into Myanmar

Specialist WWII battlefield tour operator Battle of Imphal Tours has expanded its tour options beyond Imphal, where it is based, and Kohima in North-east India, with the launch of itineraries in neighbouring Myanmar.

Founded in 2012 to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Imphal in Manipur, India, the company now hopes to give tourists a fuller picture of the decisive Burma Campaign which started the downfall of Japanese imperial ambitions in Asia.

“Myanmar and North-east India are bound together by their shared experience of the Second World War,” said Hemant Singh Katoch, founder of the tour company and publisher of two books about wartime Imphal.

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