What battle where Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India ended on 22 June when British and Indian troops from Kohima and Imphal met at Milestone 109 during the turning point of the Japanese U Go offensive into India in 1944?
Battle of Imphal
Title: Battle of Imphal
Passage: The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in northeast India from March until July 1944.  Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses.  Together with the simultaneous Battle of Kohima on the road by which the encircled Allied forces at Imphal were relieved, the battle was the turning point of the Burma Campaign, part of the South-East Asian Theatre of the Second World War.  The defeat at Kohima and Imphal was the largest defeat to that date in Japanese history.
Title: The Springing Tiger
Passage: The Springing Tiger is a historical account of the Indian National Army published in 1959 by Col Hugh Toye.  The book was published in London by Cassell Publishers, and is considered one of the first Sympathetic Western accounts of the army.  Toye worked as an intelligence officer in World War II in Burma, and was tasked with interrogating captured soldiers of the INA by the CSDIC(I).  The book is provided with a foreword by Phillip Mason, who in 1946 was the Secretary of the War department in India.  The book describes in detail the formation of the INA under the auspices of the F Kikan of Japanese intelligence through the collapse and subsequent revival of the army under Subhas Chandra Bose, its role in the Battles of Imphal and Kohima and the subsequent collapse in the face of Allied Burmese offensive before ending with the death of Subhas Chandra Bose.
Title: Battle of Kohima
Passage: The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of the Japanese U Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War.  The battle was fought in three stages from 4 April to 22 June 1944 around the town of Kohima in Nagaland in northeast India.  From 3 to 16 April, the Japanese attempted to capture Kohima ridge, a feature which dominated the road by which the besieged British and Indian troops of IV Corps at Imphal were supplied.  By mid-April, the small British and Indian force at Kohima was relieved.  From 18 April to 13 May, British and Indian reinforcements counter-attacked to drive the Japanese from the positions they had captured.  The Japanese abandoned the ridge at this point but continued to block the Kohima–Imphal road.  From 16 May to 22 June, the British and Indian troops pursued the retreating Japanese and reopened the road.  The battle ended on 22 June when British and Indian troops from Kohima and Imphal met at Milestone 109, ending the Siege of Imphal.
Battle of Imphal Battle of Kohima