
In Pictures: Northeast India recalls ‘Stalingrad of the East’
People in Nagaland state recall World War II battle between Japanese and British soldiers.
Viketouzo Miachieo, a 22-year-old Angami Naga, displays ammunition from World War II that he found a few years ago while cleaning the area beside his house in Kohima village. Miachieo fitted the RG 1942 20mm cartridge, left, with a wooden carving on top to make it look like an unused shell. Between April and June 1944, Japanese and British forces fought across Kohima in a battle that has been chosen as Britain's greatest battle by the National Army Museum, along with their battle in neighboring Imphal region. YIRMIYAN ARTHUR/AP PHOTO
Kuozeu Vizo remembers finding the sight of her village, burned and blackened during World War II, as spellbinding as a rice field, golden and ripe for harves...