Timeline Monday 3 July 1944

Events on Monday 3 July 1944 1

• 1944 Battles of Imphal and Kohima Japanese invasion of India is defeated The Japanese 15th Army invaded northeast India, hoping to capture Imphal and Kohima. British and Indian forces held out through sieges and fierce close-quarter fighting. The failed offensive cost Japan tens of thousands of men and opened the way for the reconquest of Burma.