War Hero Returns to Burma 60 Years On ; the March 1944 Chindit Expedition, the Second Largest Airborne Operation of the Second World War, Helped Turn the Tide in the Far East . Neil Connor Looks Back On How the Bravery of 10,000 Men Helped Break the Japanese Grip On Asia

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A Warwickshire war hero who was involved with a special forces landing 200 miles behind enemy lines in Japanese-occupied Burma flew back yesterday - exactly 60 years later.

Former South Staffordshire Regiment soldier Albert Hollis, aged 84, was a member of the irregular Chindit group - a forerunner of the SAS - who flew in by glider to Burma on March 5, 1944.

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War Hero Returns to Burma 60 Years On ; the March 1944 Chindit Expedition, the Second Largest Airborne Operation of the Second World War, Helped Turn the Tide in the Far East . Neil Connor Looks Back On How the Bravery of 10,000 Men Helped Break the Japanese Grip On Asia

Their mission was to establish a position, codenamed Broadway, which was the first of a series of allied bases in Japanese Burma from which troops began the process of taking back the country.

The operation is seen as a landmark moment in the Second World War which helped prevent t...

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