Fighting Through to Kohima Quotes

“flying boat was skirting”
― Michael Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma

“positions and made new knife rests, which are mobile imitations of the wiring pattern that would allow us easy exit and entry into the position. These defended localities were now a very tough proposition for anyone trying to intrude.”
― Michael Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma

“On 25 June a bulldozer, known as the Yellow Monster, arrived to help us improve the track systems as we advanced; it probably did the work in a day that 100 men with picks and shovels might do in a week. At all events, it saved us a great deal of hard work.”
― Michael Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma

“Sometimes at first light, while we were ‘standing to’, sections of our Machine Gun Platoon would open up on their fixed lines of defensive fire; this had a prophylactic effect to deter an enemy. It was often unkindly said, in jest, that the machine gunners were heating up their shaving water or maybe it was for their early morning tea. In any event, their shafts of short bursts of staccato firing were powerfully reassuring.”
― Michael Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma

“It was apparent that both the Wazirs and the Mahsuds were building up a large lashkar (a gathering of hostile forces); the numbers were reported as about 1,000 armed men. This was the first occasion that I heard the word ‘Jihud’ mentioned; there are a number of interpretations given to it; in its simplest form it could be a holy war declared by Muslims on the unbelievers of Islam.”
― Michael Lowry, Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma