Sooner or later allied forces will have to leave.

As the war approaches its tenth year, the general insisted allied forces were 'collectively undermining the insurgency'.

In 1944, the city was flattened by allied forces, creating a tabula rasa, a clean slate.

Allied forces used converted tanks fitted with extended forward arms with flail metal which spun round and activated the land mines and similar devices.

Allied forces recaptured the islands in 1945 and soon after, the entire penal colony was permanently disbanded.