Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
An event hosted by The Kohima Educational Trust.
A talk by Dr Robert Lyman, introduced by KET CEO Sylvia May.
V Force was established by the British as a reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering and guerrilla organisation to combat the Japanese forces who were thought to be intent on invading India in World War II.
V Force was created by General Sir Archibald Wavell in April 1942. The idea was to harass the Japanese lines of communications with both ambushes and sabotage, and to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines.
V Force commanders were police officers, former civil administrators, or tea planters - those with expert knowledge of the local languages and peoples - and included the anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower, who had been living in the Naga Hills among the Naga peoples since she first visited the region in 1937.
Dr Lyman discusses the role played by V Force within the wider picture of the defence of the region surrounding Imphal and Kohima.
An event hosted by The Kohima Educational Trust.
A talk by Dr Robert Lyman, introduced by KET CEO Sylvia May.
V Force was established by the British as a reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering and guerrilla organisation to combat the Japanese forces who were thought to be intent on invading India in World War II.
V Force was created by General Sir Archibald Wavell in April 1942. The idea was to harass the Japanese lines of communications with both ambushes and sabotage, and to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines.
V Force commanders were police officers, former civil administrators, or tea planters - those with expert knowledge of the local languages and peoples - and included the anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower, who had been living in the Naga Hills among the Naga peoples since she first visited the region in 1937.
Dr Lyman discusses the role played by V Force within the wider picture of the defence of the region surrounding Imphal and Kohima.
