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The British used the elephant for their war effort in Burma. This will surprise many people for whom this will be a revelation. In fact both the Japaneseand the British usedthe elephantin the Burma campaign.
James Howard Williams (1897-58)
One man whose name stands out in the use of elephants during the war is Lieutenant colonel James Howard Williams. He organized an elephant corps and used it in facing the advancing Japanese during the campaigns in 1943-44. Popularly called 'elephant Bill’, he wrote a book about his experience in the war. It must be mentioned that he was mentioned in despatches 3 times during the war and in 1945 earned an OBE.
James had made Burma his home at the end of World War I where he was associated with the use of elephants for moving logs of wood and creating paths through the thick jungles. He developed a love for the elephant and began to understand the animal. When the Japanese attacked he used an elephant to transport his family to India. He returned soon and organized the elephant corps.
Elephants in WWII
He trained the elephants to help the engineering corps to make pontoon bridges. But the elephants worked for only 4 hours in a day, but in that period did more work than any human could do. The elephants were used to build thousands of bridges and clear the path through jungles for the allied troops to go forward. The Japs also used the elephants, but elephant bill was a class by him. At the end of the war no less a commander than Field Marshal Slim, commander XIV army acknowledged the tremendous work of Bill and his elephant corps. Elephant Bill is no more but we can remember him and his elephants in the campaigns in Burma.
He contributed his bit to an allied victory.
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