When 30 Tanks Routed 8000 men - The Battle of Slim River Animated

[@thecia4202]

Literally every position 11th Division tried to hold :"A great defensive position"

[@Ronald98]

CIA please stop de-stabliazing the middle east...

[@michimatsch5862]

@@Ronald98 also South America.

[@breembo]

Shhh guys or he will give you syphilis

[@thecia4202]

AIDS*

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Well yes since they just marched past the ones that wouldnt be good.

[@FirstLast_Nba]

Outstanding reporting with no sugar coating to be seen anywhere.

[@yosman-609]

@stupidumbasshithead I believe it is making a (typically) bad situation appear less serious than it actually is, by either trying to downplay it's consequences, overstating it's benefits, or both.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Where will Britain get it's rubber from now? 😭

[@pelikan5701]

Dutch East Indies?

[@QuizmasterLaw]

when the Fuehrer Comes over I here he beleives in racial hygiene so have no worries there will be a rubber in Britain's future

[@wallnick7559]

dave obviously sri lanka, historical game btw

[@Ronald98]

Malya game when?

[@looinrims]

Congo x d

[@looinrims]

British command: “we shouldn’t give up so much land early!” Japan: *takes a lot of land early*

[@jimdandy2024]

Japan then go on to lose the war and commit some of the worst cases of human torture the world has seen.

[@looinrims]

@@jimdandy2024 who asked? It’s a joke dude

[@jacopofolin6400]

@@jimdandy2024 yes but this is not on japanese warcrimes

[@jimdandy2024]

@@jacopofolin6400 Stop thumbing up your own comments. Your reply made no sense. So please if you wish to reply, let it have some substance.

[@HappyGM-R]

@@jimdandy2024 yeah as if the Europeans never done that before

[@sk27lem]

9:30 80years later, the bridge still stands strong in Trolak. Up until 10 years ago, the town would see veterans from both sides visiting the graves of their fallen comrades.

[@kentershackle1329]

I was wondering, WHY up till 10 years ago... Then realize..oh, they all.must hv been dead by now . yikes!!.

[@momopolo]

Pearl harbor is a complex victory for the Japanese in its own right. But their campaign in Malaysia reminds me of the Germans in France.

[@MrNicoJac]

Except that the French easily could have cut them off, but due to a combination of sheer incompetence, misfortune, and retarded thinking, they didn't. Really, when you dive into it, what happened in France is SO idiotic that no comedian on earth could have come up with it. When looking at the Malaysia campaign though, I see no point where you could say "if only guy X had done action Y."

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Pearl Harbor wasn’t much of a victory for Japan Sure they inflicted casualties but most of the ships sunk were quickly raised, and they didn’t get the carriers and didn’t even try to destroy the oil

[@lizijie98]

@@jonathanwilliams1065 It was a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat.

[@regizeelement8511]

@@kms_scharnhorst Japanese main targets were the 3 aircraft carriers, which unfortunately (to IJN) were nowhere to be found

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

The japanese actually looked at the germans and though we can do that too.

[@electrosindustries5299]

Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett, not to be confused with the expression of incredulous surprise.

[@primastanislaus9184]

Axis tanks, going through forest and jungles like no body's business.

[@jeffbenton6183]

True. Though, it looks to me like they were going along main roads, though.

[@ken90ny]

Early type 98s are very small and can maneuver easily through the jungles. However dense jungle terrain is certainly impossible to move through

[@mebeasensei]

@@ken90ny yes, I always wondered why the US didn't copy these little light tanks and use them in Vietnam...So much better than those poor guys walking patrols and the point man up front getting popped off by snipers and his feet blow off by mines and booby traps.

[@RESOPO1]

@@mebeasensei The improvement of easily carryable anti Tank weapons made anything light and weakly armored pretty much useless.

[@raz1683]

@@mebeasensei RPG would lit them up

[@saturnv2419]

The lesser known disaster of allied operation during WWII.

[@freddyvejen743]

Your use of maps and moving units is excellent and makes it easy to understand the movement of units. Could you please put a scale bar on the maps as well?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Scale bar is not as needed as using the international sistem of measurements.

[@shriramvenu]

all the place names are there. you can use google maps to look up details

[@XMysticHerox]

What should be mentioned here and is a bigger factor than just exhaustion in why the tanks could just push through is the small amount of AT weapons the Indian Brigades had. At the point the Battle of Slim River took place. The 12th Brigade had a couple of At rifles, the mines and molotovs. Thats it. That they managed to destroy any of the enemy tanks is already impressive. The Argylls batallion literally had no AT weapons at that point. Yeah they were surprised by the attack but there wasn´t much they could have done anyways.

[@jim47-XXV]

Molotovs are great when there's no infantry support.

[@Barefoot-Bob]

Jap tanks were garbage , why there was no Piats or armor piercing 50 cals, where was british armor or aircraft? ffs a brirish 2lber gun could knock out a jap tank they were not much more than an armored car.

[@XMysticHerox]

@@Barefoot-Bob Japanese tanks at this point of the war were not exactly garbage. The Type 97 they primarily used here had a 57mm gun and was pretty fast. The armour was garbage yes but enough to stop anti tank rifles. Defintely more than an armoured car. As for why the Brits had fuck all. Well they lost everything at Dunkirque. What they had replaced at this point and gotten sent by the US was in Europe and later North Africa. The Pacific was very low priority compared to the home islands.

[@Barefoot-Bob]

@@XMysticHerox type 89 was there more common tank it had 15mm of frontal armor . any anti tank rifle would go right through it and probably out the other side. US 50 cal with AP rounds can penetrate about 33mm of armor . The m2 Stuart obsolete before ww2 could penn approx. 60mm. no the Japanese were well behind and the forces in Singapore should have been able to stop them dead cold . Unless of course it is another Waverley Cock up and they never got what they needed. which looks to be the case. Please remember it is only my opinion and i Certainly do not impune the Heroism of our soldiers or the Britts, but the leadership in the far east was dismal at best.

[@looinrims]

Get a frag in their tracks or engine area, not an easy feat but in combat there are no simple tasks, at least jungle fighting is up close and personal for such attacks

[@primal_guy1526]

“That’s a nice defensive position you got there, it would be a shame if it were to be flanked from the jungle”

[@ayu1978]

It’s chilling that Japanese troops and tanks passed through the road just 100 meters away from where I stay today in northern Singapore on their way towards Bukit Timah village and the nightmare of occupation after the surrender that followed. Peace and security is so precious and hard earned.

[@looinrims]

Don’t submit to authoritarians And by the way all socialists and communists are authoritarian

[@rikk319]

@@looinrims Almost. Communists and Fascists are all authoritarian. Some socialists are, and some capitalists. Not getting your claims right will make people doubt everything you say.

[@looinrims]

@@rikk319 sorry tell me where the USSR, GDR, Madagascar, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, DRC, Vietnam, Poland, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria are/were not authoritarian? And what capitalist nation is? Capitalism by its nature demands the least possible interference by government to function properly

[@rikk319]

@@looinrims Those were all authoritarian countries with wannabe communism. Communism only works in small tribal sizes. Otherwise it's just cronyism. And China hasn't been communist for decades. They have more billionaires than the US, and the most capitalist of all inventions, a stock market. Fascism is just an extreme version of capitalism...it's authoritarian capitalism with corporations and nationalism wrapped around it. And the capitalism of Adam Smith is a far cry from modern capitalism, where multinational corporations hold control over the political parties of multiple nations. Human beings didn't evolve to work in groups of hundreds of millions. When politicians are taking directions from lobbyists rather than the voting citizens, it's authoritarian capitalism.

[@andro7862]

@@looinrims This is such a braindead take. Plenty of capitalist nations were authoritarian. Imperial Japan for example, cold war South Korea, the ROC, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Chile, Brazil, fascist Italy, apartheid South Africa...

[@easygoin9443]

the 30 japanese tanks were loudly playing the Tokyo drift theme music as the cruised through the defensive lines

[@hedgehog3180]

It'd be Eurobeat,Tokyo Drift isn't Japanese.

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

🎶 *DEJA VU! I'VE BEEN RIDING THIS TANK BEFORE!....* 🎶

[@Werner4voss]

gas gas gas

[@Blei1986]

Blitzkrieg: Rice Edition

[@muhdzulkarnain428]

I do hope that you will cover about the battle of opium hill where a company of 42 Malay soldiers fought to the last man against the Japanese onslaught. The leader of the company Lt. Adnan bin Saidi is considered a national hero by both Malaysia and Singapore... Videos that cover the battle of Singapore often ignored this battle as if it never happened and those that does cover it are Malaysian and Singaporean vids.

[@Alhy-ls3dv]

Have you heard of the Tallalla brothers?

[@muhdzulkarnain428]

@@Alhy-ls3dv yes I have... Brave pilots

[@Alhy-ls3dv]

@@muhdzulkarnain428 it's sad they are not in our Sejarah text books

[@muhdzulkarnain428]

@@Alhy-ls3dv true

[@hawk4192]

I am very interested to learn more about this! The lesser focused battles outside the European theater are so amazing and under valued.

[@thefilthycasual516]

I remember a couple years ago asking if Historigraph would do Malaya and he said he wanted to do Greece first. Here we are now, Greece-less, and he's doing Malaya, lel.

[@historigraph]

yeahhh things happen. Greece will happen eventually

[@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018]

Slim River, the place my dad gets most of his speeding tickets.

[@simunooi5306]

Someone should have given tickets to the speeding Japanese tanks. Lol.

[@hirwanhambal9994]

True

[@mosesracal6758]

Experience was the thing that made the Japanese so good in this campaign. People kept saying lack of this and that but its not, its all about the experience. Yamashita's troops have been blitzing through China for years at this point, a disorganized Britain will be an easy victory for em.

[@DomWeasel]

I'd hardly call the Chinese meatgrinder 'blitzing'.

[@Deepwang84]

Your experience from fighting Chinese forces is going to be completely different then fighting British forces. The equipment alone that British would be able to bring compared to the Chinese is massive the Chinese barely had any sort of heavy weaponry why the British divisions would have plenty. The reason the Japanese won was because Yamashita was an extremely skilled general and the British often underperformed on the ground throughout all of WW2......

[@jwadaow]

@@Deepwang84 North Africa was completely different. There was no adequate preparation for war generally as some poeple actually believed their own rhetoric about a 'war to end all wars'.

[@nogisonoko5409]

@@DomWeasel Chinese forces are just well prepared to fend offJapanese attack and they have larger pool of manpower compared to British forces here. Japanese forces need to grind every Chinese they met to even gain ground.

[@DomWeasel]

@@nogisonoko5409 'Well prepared'? Up to this point, many Chinese forces had to make do with whatever weapons they could get hold of, whether it was 19th century muzzle-loading rifles or even spears. That was why the Japanese banzai charge worked well against the Chinese; it often wasn't opposed by bullets.

[@DKendallProductions]

I love this series. In depth look at a campaign I have never heard talked about.

[@fuifahlee8155]

Thanks for continuing this Malaya series.

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

Thank you for these amazing videos!

[@nagasako7]

Japanese soldiers were on bikes. You can tell by this performance they had way more energy. While British troops were on foot, scattered, having terrible sleep/rest. On top of low morale, no army can fight on low sleep constantly having to wake up and relocate.

[@abdulrahman1308]

1. Butterworth Air Base fell first because it is on the mainland along the north-south trunk road which the Japanese was advancing after their victory at Jitra. 2. There were no Japanese Special Naval Landing Force assigned to the Malayan Campaign to take the island of Penang.

[@2Links]

It's here! Been waiting all day.

[@paanjang16]

So tank rush is actually a viable tactic in WW2. Holy molly the British were simply out gunned, out flanked and out tanked by the Japanese.

[@darkdill]

Part of it was that the British had no tanks of their own in Malaya. A few Matildas would've shredded the Japanese tanks.

[@messier8379]

​@@darkdill most of Britsh tanks are in African front and the war with Japanese appeared only in 1941.. Churchill dint felt that the Japanese would declare war onto them until its too late

[@bigsarge2085]

Excellent coverage of the lead-up to Singapore, a fascinating bit of WWII history!

[@fragidistic]

... and yet the strategists were adamant that tanks cannot win the battle on their own.

[@looinrims]

Goodwood has proved this to be correct

[@mikumikuiyada]

actually, if you catch soldiers by surprise, most of them will end up having to crouch on the road due to machine fire. based on my red alert knowledge, this allows tanks to basically squish any number of infantry with ease. a single tank can easily take out 8000 infantry this way.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

British colony: **exists** Japan: "uwu what's this?"

[@lovablesnowman]

The British would get the last laugh

[@mkaxiii772]

@@lovablesnowman no? Their entire colony is gone after ww2

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

@@lovablesnowman Bro what? 😂At least Tokyo is Japanese. Can you say London is British? No. 🇵🇰🇮🇳🇿🇦🇸🇸

[@brookeshenfield7156]

Excellent map work. If I may, I suggest adding scales as the size of each map (campaign and tactical) can make it hard to imagine the distances involved. Thank you for the videos.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I would suggest using the international sistem of measurements.

[@brookeshenfield7156]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 How will that help me discern the scale of each map?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@brookeshenfield7156 If he where to in understandable terms say the distance between 2 cities you could then look at where they are in the map and see the scale.

[@shriramvenu]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 you can still use google maps. all the important place names are there

[@burningphoneix]

Ah yes, the famed Japanese "Bike Blitz" strategy.

[@AdamDTaylor]

Excellent video, brilliantly told - well done!

[@John-nw8uj]

Percival’s defense plan when he was Brig General Staff called for 44 Infantry Devisions and Two tank Regiments and 350 of the moderne monoplane fighters and bombers. Gov provided none. Command in War, Jack Smythe VC MC. JO

[@akmalfakhruddin7285]

Excellent vid :)

[@keiththomas1180]

Fantastic work, can't wait for the next one 😀

[@rtache4855]

veyr informative and entertaining!

[@tmclaug90]

Super excellent channel. Subscribed.

[@j.c.k.6883]

finally the next part. Awesome work

[@iamgreat1234]

It's important to note before Japanese invaded Malaya, British troops already lost so many skirmishes with Malay warlord in the thick jungle of Malaya. When the news of Japan coming to Malaya, the British already evacuated most of its citizens in Malaya to Australia.

[@robbabcock_]

Great series!

[@timothyhiggins8934]

Hey great video! I knew the situation was bad, but never knew it was THAT bad! 30 tanks caused entire brigades to dismantle. No wonder the British built the centurion soon after

[@shansuleiman2567]

The Allied has no tanks and limited A/T weapons in Malaya. In the Battle of Slim River, there were only 24 A/T mines. And insufficient planes and naval assets in the Far East. However, there was enough army personnel.

[@charlesmaschi3238]

Excellent series of videos concerning the Malaya Campaign of 41/42. A topic of historical significance rarely covered in tactical detail, and in such a interesting and entertaining way. I salute you.

[@reynanlamsen2007]

This wasn’t even a battle holy fuck.

[@hawk4192]

It is called a route.

[@iainmalcolm9583]

Excellent animation (as usual). Thanks for the upload.

[@ae80typed]

Thank you for the video, from a Malaysian.

[@JoshuaC923]

Thanks for sharing and documenting this

[@innosam123]

Ring ring to Singapore here we go!

[@The3Lego3Freak]

Amazing content

[@filipinorutherford7818]

I think the Japanese use of Aggressive assault tactics would work along roads because the only units (except maybe artillery and air) involved would be the enemy in front of them. The enemy would have smaller killing grounds where they aim all their weapons. Flanking would be done well because the flanking units would be totally unseen until the last minute.

[@filipinorutherford7818]

I have read some where the contact drill for a Japanese section/squad was to have 2 scouts forward followed by a machine gun team of 2 machine guns with 2 Assistant machine gunners, next would be the squad leader and the final group would be riflemen. On contact the scouts would shoot at the enemy. The machine guns would be set up beside each other with the squad leader. The rifleman would all fix bayonets and ready themselves to move. Once the machine guns where set up the squad leader would call the scouts who would fall back through the gun team and join the rifle team and fix bayonets. The machine guns would maintain firing. The scouts and riflemen would split into two teams and immediately conduct a double flanking attack on the enemy with the goal of conducting a bayonet charge. This would happen without reconnaisance on the enemy beforehand because it was believed with aggression and spirit the enemy would lose. This explains the almost reckless abandon the Japanese took when they went on the attack as their default SOPs was to go into full attack. Most armies go through a small period of reconnaissance to ascertain the enemies dispositions to work out whether to attack, hold or defend. Correct me if I am wrong as I like finding out infantry tactics of WW2 armies? This would also mean that the Japanese would have the initiative due to not doing reconnaissance.

[@history9034]

Ah you finally made a video on this, awesome. I remember we had a discussion on your other video which I thought Mark Felton made a video on already but it was actually this.

[@raz1683]

Please cover the Battle of Pasir Panjang! The Last Stand of the Malayan Campaign

[@clamum9648]

New Historigraph video, nuts will be busted

[@kentershackle1329]

and Thus ending of British Empire Colonial rule/influence for 156years on the Malay Peninsula . Captain Francis Light (1786) - General Yamashita Tomiyuki (1942). Within 2 decades a new nation will be born. Federation of MALAYA (1957) - MALAYSIA (1963) God Bless everyone.

[@KhaiOpirusIV]

I would prefer how Japanese Imperial Forces with courageously and well determination taking Malaya rather than those disgracefully, scammers, treacherously and filthy Francis "MF" Light taking over Malaya.

[@Aizu94]

Them IJA Blitzkreig the whole Malaya

[@utubeo4r]

Finally somebody talk about how ill prepared are the British troop in Malaya

[@MrBestshot33]

Talk about incompetence in leadership and communication.

[@Minboelf]

Funny enough I got a ad on Warpath before watching this

[@cedricliggins7528]

General Yamashita was a brilliant strategist

[@peterjohnson3836]

Are my kingdom for a squadron of spitfires

[@bdbgh]

Thank you for covering this, it's always nice to see the a south east asia/pacific theater of WW2 documentary, especially when it's about the history of my country

[@macgonzo]

Is that Gordon Bennett the source of the exclamation "Gordon Bennett!"?

[@Bakotcha]

Their tanks might be bad, but it's better than having no tanks.

[@LAH92]

Can you do a video on capture of Meiktila please. My great grandad was attached to the 14th Army and would love to hear other perspectives on what happened :) If you Google 'Capture of Meiktila' there are 2 men one with a bren gun, the other the rifle. One with the Bren Gun is my Great Grandad George Hillier 💙

[@verysurvival]

WW2 British Strategic summarized. European Theater lose early and wait for Soviets to rescue, Eastern Theater lose early and wait for USA to rescue. Consistent if not exactly glorious

[@archonixm]

Are you sure its Maran near to Kuala Lumpur at minute 5:59? at minute 4:56 youve shown maran is nearer to kuantan which is correct...now i've noticed there are 2 maran..lol...the one nearer to kuala lumpur should be rename to karak or bentong...not sure which one

[@flask0390]

The idea of placing your infantry on bicycles is so simple, but nearly nobody did it. Guess they were all afraid of looking ridiculous.

[@Exospray]

In truth a lot of armies used bikes at this time, but usually as a scouting/mobile reserve within a larger formation.

[@jeffbenton6183]

The British did it at D-Day, IIRC.

[@AndrewAustinFrustrated]

Germany used them throughout the war easy transport that beat yomping it on foot.

[@aickavon]

there are multiple reasons why bikes were not mass used. A) The Bike is heavy, vulnerable to the elements, and does not actually provide long term advantages. While you move faster with less energy for your speed, you are still using more energy for the distance traveled. This is not ideal in long campaigns are marches. B) Not all ground units would be in a position to use bikes. Some folks just have equipment that is too heavy. A unit outpacing others is risking a lot. C) Terrain is any wheeled tool's worst enemy, and the one folks who could aggressively use bikes being light infantry... would see their usual advantages of terrain turned against them. D) Ambushes would be extra lethal but I doubt that is an actual factor or point, primarily the first three. The japanese are depicted here are probably using bikes to catch up to the overextending forces, thus the light infantry is moving to support. Note, they're all sticking to the main road which is the best ideal situation. IN this case, they're using the situation that is most optimal for a bike. Catching up to a unit instead of leading the way, not in dangerous territory and thus not needing to worry of ambushes or bad terrain. And not in a long march but rather a short operation requiring speed above energy. Often times these are limited to reserve units or scouting units so they can reposition swiftly. But not actually wise or smart to build up a large stockpile of bikes only for the logistics officer to shoot themselves at all the chains they have to order whenever it rains heavily, especially not with these notable disadvantages.

[@zarakdurrani7584]

@@aickavon in this campaign, I've read In a military book depicting general Yamashita, that the Japanese didn't even have enough rubber to make tires for their bicycles, and sometimes the soldiers would just have to make do with the rim alone. Staggering how tenacious the Japanese soldiers were!

[@shumyinghon]

the Japanese tanks advance was mainly only using small and paved trunk roads. Not going through thick jungle, the British had enough effective guns to destroy the tanks but as events turned out, the tanks were able to ravaged the British for the whole morning. Incredible. That spoke a lot of British fighting abilities and preparedness at the beginning of the war.

[@DomWeasel]

Churchill's declaration at the end there... Virtually identical to declarations made by Stalin and Hitler.

[@jpmtlhead39]

Oh Percival,Percival,until this day Arthur is cussing in is grave ( where might that be) for trusting a chair on the round table for a knight called Percival. Must be very embaressed by that poor choice. Poor Arthur.

[@joenelson4235]

Yes today is a good day!!

[@ILikeMilk-es5ii]

Commenting for the algorithm don’t mind me.

[@shononoyeetus8866]

good birthday present this video was, even if you didn’t know it

[@jarodaffygaming276]

Can we get a video on the huntgen forest in ww2? Not many videos on that.

[@nooradzmanbaharudin8411]

The Malaya Motherland did witness when The 3rd British Punch was defeded by IJA yet merely taking watch the armslock and the captured one while them having decalethon event.

[@yavyav2281]

Reminds me of Rommels early prowess in Cyrenaica

[@thishominid871]

All the mocking of Japanese tanks tends to overlook how effective they were against infantry who had no antitank support.

[@eine52]

I have read a book written by the Japanese tank commander who planned and organized the attack in Malaya front, but he mentioned that his unit met fierce resistance from the British forces who had some tanks and AT guns well prepared.

[@druegnor1703]

~Every year during the usual Eidulfitri celebration mad drive north from Kuala Lumpur, I always used the old federal road passing through Slim River, Bidor and Kampar..never going to see these road the same again after this (imagining Japanese tanks charging through the road from north to south)

[@jumbeaux1]

The British decided to give away the peninsula easily in order to strengthen their defences in Singapore island. That didn't work out well, did it? Btw - those suggesting that the Malays were helping the Japanese didn't have their facts right. Japanese occupation led to a lot of suffering to them as well.

[@saint4life09]

There was still significant support from some Malays, particularly early in the campaign. Some saw the Japanese as liberators, but obviously that was proven wrong under occupation.

[@XMysticHerox]

There was also lots of resistance in Malaya after the invasion so yeah this is nonsense.

[@superabcdet]

In the beginning yes ppl like Ibrahim Yaakob and KKM helped IJN hoping for independence. Welp we know where it is going once IJN conquer whole Malaya

[@TheThemutedude]

Wow, I feel not enough credit is given to the Indians who sacrificed so many men to form these brigades. All for a colonial empire that didn't respect them as equals :(

[@oddballsok]

and..so, the job should have been done by english footsoldiers and corporals..thrown in suicide missions with no artillery support, air cover or the newest machineguns...... help me see, where is the "respect" of the ruling british politicians and commanders for these poor buggars ? (as in; it doesNOT matter what skin color or birthplace..as a frontline soldier you are ALWAYs SCREWED...).

[@user-wm2tw]

@@oddballsok it’s british colonial empire. So the privilege to die for it should be theirs alone. Faak the colonist bavastards.

[@mikumikuiyada]

i am a malaysian. based on history, malaysia soldiers was still using a small dagger called keris, which do high damage, however is short ranged. this is the real reason why japanese won. japanese were using bicycle technology and guns. the defenders was using keris, and could be outflanked by bicycles. the war was over in 50 days simply because the defenders was using short dagger type weapon while japanese were running around them with bicycles, every time the 8000 strong army try to chase the bicycles, they simply fail cuz they too slow and melee isnt good.

[@paulknapp4046]

Hard fighting by the 12th Bde fwd of Kampar and some magnificent counter attacks at Kampar. All over shadowed by the Slim River debacle.

[@stevenwallace773]

You gotta hand it to the Japanese, using stolen local bicycles to transport their infantry was clever!

[@jaredkaiser3097]

That music though.......🤌🤌🤌

[@Wolfen443]

WOW, the Japanese Tanks deliver a Japanese Blitzkrieg in Malaysia with even more success than the Germans. This reminds me of the success of Heavy Knights and cavalry vs pro musket and recruited light infantry in Europe.

[@cookieollie404]

British don't have tanks. British don't have anti tank guns. British don't have a chance.

[@juamu1132]

if i remember correctly yamashita's colonel's was actually a proponent of tank development in the IJA, sadly all the steel was allocated to navy and the tank development was neglected.

[@Barefoot-Bob]

Percival should have been court martialed for utter incompetence

[@orangeloaf]

never thought this happen at my hometown long ago..

[@juanmc5731]

Excellent

[@lepmuhangpa]

The Gurkhas seemed to be excellent in close combat. My ancestors were true warriors.

[@Manicscitzo]

Haha those Japanese pelotons are amazing! Using bikes to speed up the infantry is honestly genius

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

As an army officer rucking (albeit light weight) for tens of miles, it always made me wonder why we don't copy the Japanese and use bicycles. We'd be there in half the time.

[@crazybiscut]

Thanks! This coming from a Malaysian

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nice video

[@leogazebo5290]

The Japanese just Banzai Blitz but without the Meth and Ghost Division...

[@aickavon]

you don't need meth when you have bikes.

[@mosesracal6758]

Yamashita is like a hoi4 player desperate for huge encirclements lmao

[@iowanimperium7258]

Maybe he was a gamer before us all

[@unable2noe]

4:39 imagine doing this against your enemy who’s shown to rampage down roads with tanks and fucking bicycles. The British don’t deserve to be defeated, they are asking to be defeated.

[@toothlessseer3153]

The (British) Empire had no clothes. i.e. It was coasting on the 'good old days' when a couple of warships were enough to subdue the natives. _And everyone was pretending otherwise (until the Japanese tore through their shoddy command and ill-prepared forces). The good thing about this was the Brits were out of SE Asia after this disaster. And the bad part was that local Singaporean Chinese paid the price_

[@zintosion]

Who would win? One of the biggest empires in the world or some asian bois on bicycle

[@Ocrilat]

The defeat at Penang Island had huge repercussions. Not only were non-whites not allowed to be evacuated, the British publicly announced that everyone of all races that wanted to leave was evacuated, which infuriated the Malays and Chinese leaders who knew otherwise. The rapid retreat also allowed the Japanese to seize locally-owned boats there, giving them a sealift capacity on the west coast of Malaya that the British couldn't counter or deal with.

[@looinrims]

PIA needs a catchier name

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Well, who’s surrendering now?

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

We never surrendered an entire nation

[@michimatsch5862]

@@md.tamzidislam6580 ugh, there is a lot of context missing here on why these aren‘t comparable at all.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Yes you did. You did it without a fight, surrender to the American Empire.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 There was no "American Empire" nice try.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Was and is. The American Empire is NATO, EU, NAFTA, CN, .... it does not draw itself on maps but when the call to arms is issued you will see a whole colation of imperial states invading lets say Iraq.