Operation Timing

Interviewer: During the fighting in the Imphal Valley and your participation in it, were most of the operations done during the day?

Well um, there is what we call the moon period. Two weeks of each month in which there was some moon and we had night operations scheduled at that time. And during a full moon it was ah, it could be very effective. One of the hazards was that, very commonly at night time, in the monsoon or other times, you'd have extensive ground mist so you couldn't see your targets and it couldn't be fully effective. But the fact is that we did ah, we limited their movement of their transport ‘til night, night operations and we were moderately effective ah, at night time too. And of course even during the non-moon periods we tended to attack at dawn and dusk when they were just starting to move.