'Pippin' was a British radio deception designed to conceal from the Japanese forces in Burma the fact that Major General D. F. W. Warren’s Indian 5^th Division and Major General C. C. Fowkes’s 11^th (East Africa) Division had been relieved at the crossing of the Chindwin river by Major General C. G. G. Nicholson’s British 2^nd Division and Brigadier W. A. Dimoline’s 28^th (East Africa) Brigade (December 1944).