Kammala wannan jumla:
a Kohima ya kasance mai tsada gazawar, a karshe tilasta shi zuwa wani m koma baya. Rukunin Japan na 33, Rukunin Japan na 15 da Rukunin INA na 1 sun sha wahala irin wannan makoma a Imphal. Jafananci da dakarunsu sun rasa akalla mutane dubu hamsin da suka mutu. A shekarun da suka gabata ana amfani da shi a lokacin lokacin damina amma ba a wannan shekara ba (1944 <unk> 45). Kwamandan ya yanke shawarar cewa lokaci ya yi da za a kai hari ga zuciyar sojojin Japan a Burma. Shirin Janar William "Bill" Slim ta cikin watannin damina ya kasance bin Jafananci da aka ci nasara a Kohima da filayen Imphal tare da Rukunin Sojojin Indiya na 5 a kan titin Tiddim da Rukunin Afirka na 11 na Gabas a kwarin Kabaw, har sai biyu sun haɗu a Kalemyo. Shirin na gaba ya mayar da hankali kan mamaye tsakiyar Burma, har zuwa kudu zuwa Mandalay don cin gajiyar kudu da kuma hallaka sojojin Japan a Shewbo Plains, arewacin Irrawaddy, inda za a iya amfani da makamai. Sojojin Allied sun haye Kogin Chindwin kuma shugabannin dakarun biyu na rundunar soja ta goma sha huɗu (IV da XXXIII Corps) suna motsawa zuwa wuraren da aka zaɓa, wanda ya ba wa Jafananci mamaki saboda ba su yi tsammanin manyan ayyuka ba a lokacin damina. Sojoji na goma sha huɗu na Birtaniya sun fuskanci babban matsala (Irrawaddy) wanda aka rufe da Jafananci. Kogin Irrawaddy a tsakiyarsa yana da faɗi kuma yana cike da sanduna masu cin amana da motsi. Hanyar kai tsaye ta gaba zata kasance mai tsada sosai tare da ƙananan kashi na nasara.