The last an final incredible journey is very different from the
earlier two. Which the earlier two were point-to-point journeys,
the series of moves shown below happened as part of a gradual
military retreat: Click here to go to the interactive Google
map. After the submarine journey to Asia in early 1943, Netaji
allied himself with the nascent Japanese empire, based himself
in Singapore and Rangoon (then under Japanese control like the
rest of south east Asia) and raised the Indian National Army of
over 30,000 troops (Indian PoWs as well as fresh civilian
recruits). The INA fought alongside the Japanese in the failed
offensive on Imphal and Kohima between Mar – Jun 1944. During
this time, Netaji moved his base to Maymyo, a small hill town
near Mandalay in Burma. This was as close as he would ever come
to returning back to Kolkata. (I have not shown these moves in
the map above). By Feb 1945, the tables were turned with the
British pushing into Burma and the INA defending the Irrawady
river crossing south-wes