Hello Jim, No I am not military, but my father was a Chindit in Burma in ww2 , One of the ones who walked all the way in & out , not the ones flown in.
His unit was about 50% Gurkhas so I grew up hearing about them.
{Allthough it wasnt untilll my fathers last 18 days on the planet that he spoke of his actual expieriences that had haunted him for 50 years..}
a friend acrooss the road & myself when we were about 6 chopped his bedroom windowsill to pieces with his fathers ww2 mk.2 issue kukri. Most of the men in the road I grew up in had been in Burma or Malaya.
He must have got one hell of a hiding for that.
Its a shame you havent handled a kukri, But I guess if you wanted to you would have. They work well.
Spiral
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