How the Japanese Took Burma and Threatened India - Pacific War

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War continues with a video on the early Japanese success during the Burma-India campaign of 1942-1943, as we cover the battles of the Fall of Rangoon, Stilwell's command, First Arakan campaign and the Chindits penetration.
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[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

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[@Enlisted_AxisMain]

please do Stalingrad!..

[@Arnurion_ITA]

The series about the Pacific War is one of the best in this channel. Even though I prefer classic and medieval history, this is one is amazingly well done.

[@dewsjoy9839]

My maternal grandfather served in this campaign, he passed away 25 years ago. I never got a chance to hear history from him.All I knew as a child was he served in the army when British empire operated in India from my parents and that he was medically discharged due to pneumonia.I wouldn't have known anything other than that had it not been for a copy of pension document that I retrieved from my uncle about 5 years ago. The document itself is torn and print on it is faded at many places. I wish I could restore that to read all details on it. Some information that I could decipher includes campaign served: Burma, enrollment date Feb 1943 discharge date Apr 1946, something something then a name ' T' Smith Group D Class iv Station: Rourkee

[@rathisamar]

It's Roorkee(near haridwar) as it is Bengal sappers HQ so go there and find the details.

[@adhirbose9910]

Rourkee is a town in India.

[@subdivisiondimapur-zi9gk]

Pls visit Nagaland Kohima....iam from Nagaland

[@user-es5gx2di7h]

Go to Kew Archives?

[@swapnilchitte8247]

I live in roorkee

[@polaris30000]

My grandfather was in Burma. Brought back some trophies and some, shall we say, stories of adventures generally frowned upon in Geneva.

[@abdullahaltafg]

My Great Granfather fought in Burma in the Indian Army. The only story I know about him was through my father. He told me that when Japanesse were advancing, the British regiment commander left the army leaderless and left them to their fate. He barely escaped Japanesse atrocities by hiding in the Jungle for many days with deadly reptiles.

[@ogasontop]

basically one invader taking over from another invader

[@abdullahaltafg]

@@ogasontop kind of but Burma was reconquered by the British again. So its the same invader.

[@powerist209]

Yeah, I remembered that most of the fighting unit until counteroffensive being Chinese soldiers diverted there as I remember. At least from dad and mom account of their families plus Grand Pa on dad side before he passed away. Dad side having to survive in Bago but mom side fleeing to Northern Myanmar where they met Chinese refugees and soldiers (mom’s dad volunteered after war began when he was studying in China.)

[@twahatashfia6075]

My Granduncle was at the Eastern front and sent to Burma. However, after the war when he came back, he got awfully quiet where he was always joyful before and didn't want to share anything about his war experience. He became sick and died in 1947, just before India was partitioned. Only now we realize he might have had severe trauma from the fighting. May he rest in peace.

[@user-rc7ro2xw7s]

My maternal Grandfather fought on the Burma front for the British Indian army and was wounded there.He was awarded for his bravery.He migrated to Pakistan in 1947and joined the Pakistani army as most Muslims did at that time. He passed away in 1979 .

[@kartikey8068]

He was from which state in India?

[@user-rc7ro2xw7s]

@@kartikey8068 ,Currently East Punjab in India.

[@parrot849]

He must’ve been a very brave soldier, I’m sure you’re proud of him too….

[@arnold118-b1w]

great video! If people are interested in learning specifically why the British constantly failed to gain success against the Japanese then Tim Moreman's book "The Jungle, The Japanese And British Commonwealth Armies At War" is great, focusing on doctrine and training issues from the Malaya campaign to the 44/45 Burma campaign.

[@sithuhan4341]

Thanks Been learning my country's history from K&G , commented from Rangoon.

[@marcbartuschka6372]

A very good overview about a often overlooked topic (at least in the west). The Pacific-War (as the African Campaign) has the benefit, that it was fought (at least outside China) with smalleer numbers than lets say the Eastern Front, so that the format a weekly videos could cover the story in depth. You did a good job here.

[@hnpth3812]

As a Burmese person, I'm very impressed by how well this channel pronounced Burmese names

[@softtempo2.0]

Love what you guys do. Thanks so much for producing great informative content!

[@KHK001]

Love this series! thanks KnG!

[@emperoroak7331]

As a Burmese, what can I say is whoa

[@anandapespi]

I am a Burmese but my great grandpa was a British military engineer... It is interesting to watch this video as i am living through his experience 💕

[@johnpauljones4190]

Guys! I like this video! Good work! Keep up! The Burma campaign is a forgotten one!!

[@MrZog33]

This is a great channel. Thank you for your work 🎉

[@admiralprinceeric323]

I want for 1943-44 Pacific Wars videos so far to watch it yet for long???

[@KingsandGenerals]

at some point

[@MythicTales993]

Your creativity is unmatched. This video is incredible!

[@williamtell5365]

It's a vast overstatement to say the Japanese almost took India.

[@kartikey8068]

They could have taken the North East part of India (and they did take) which is very hilly and similar to Burma

[@WickedMainahbub]

They could have easily taken it but it wouldn't have accomplished much. They had already cut China off from the West which was their entire objective in taking Burma.

[@PricedDoughnut]

I didn't know anything about these campaigns prior to this video. Fascinating stuff! Thanks for the great level and detail put into these videos it's great.

[@hoyer]

Finaly. Feels like i have been waiting years for this episode to finally drop.

[@Drogmir]

My grandfather who just passed away used to tell me stories of living in the jungles of Burma with his father as displaced Thais who fled, apparently they would serve as like local pathfinders for the British and would be paid in like scrip vouchers for redemption after the war. And apparently when they tried to cash it in after the war ended the British gov told them all the scrip was invalid. But they did move back to Thailand after the war ended and did very well for themselves so it's not all bad. But my grandfather def said the British were untrustworthy as a result, but they weren't "evil" like his experience with the Japanese.

[@roykay4709]

Another excellent and comprehensive presentation!

[@mutteringmale]

This is the best vid I've ever seen on a WWII theater war. And also, thanks for getting rid of those annoying swishes, swopes, popping noises and constant irritating back ground noises!

[@Sgtklark]

Thanks!

[@camiloclarkson1122]

wow another high quality video! Though at 2hrs 34mins, maybe ask snack companies for sponsorship! :)

[@mitchelnorton2692]

Love the long form videos.

[@alexius23]

I have read some Indian history written by Indian scholars. These authors talked of the Raj in the 1930’s. They spoke of a sense of inevitable change upon the horizon. It was not certain exactly what that change would actually be. In the 1945 General Election Clement Attlee became Prime Minister. He was willing to consider Indian Independence. He sent Lord Mountbatten to negotiate. I also know Winston Churchill was against the idea of Indian independence. I have wondered how things would have played out if Churchill had won the 1945 election.

[@user-zr4ow6kf2s]

To be honest if this was a game it would be hell of a game

[@robertobustios9485]

i like this series very much. can you guys do a long video on the dutch east indies campaign?

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@robertobustios9485 we will

[@Meat-Bun]

@@KingsandGenerals Besides the Dutch East Indies campaign, are you going to do long videos on the 1931-1945 Sino-Japanese War and the New Guinea Campaign ?

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@Meat-Bun yes on the second, maybe on the first

[@krasnamerah1926]

@@KingsandGenerals, better to include the 1939-1942 political climate in the East Indies. It's a very much forgotten in the Indonesian history despite being rather important in WW2.

[@nathang5630]

Your videos are the best on KZbin. I'm excited every time I see you have a new one!

[@Peter11Fields]

i love this channel. thanks for the video

[@meenumann8423]

Love the content Can you please make more content related india

[@muhammadumair1901]

If Britain knows that they have to leave India , will they defend those lands against Japan or not?

[@NotthefirstJnardmsadly]

Yeah, probably since they don't want India to fall under Japan's sphere of influence, but I dont think they would be as invested in her defense as much

[@shenghan9385]

Of course the British would just like the reason it started the war and stayed in the war against Nazi Germany over Poland.

[@WickedMainahbub]

Shit it was mostly Indian divisions that did most of the fighting anyway

[@loganmaddocks4703]

Awesome content as always. Didnt you used to have a lingform video on the invasion of Crete? I cant seem to find it...

[@KingsandGenerals]

Battle of Greece video

[@loganmaddocks4703]

@@KingsandGenerals Rodger that. Was it a separate video at one point or am I fabricating that memory??

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[@loganmaddocks4703]

@@KingsandGenerals big ups fam. Thanks! You guys are the best!

[@grahamparkin5568]

Enjoyed the show, well done. My father was part of the brigade reinforcements (1st battalion West Yorks ) sent down from India, they where involved in the fighting starting from Pegu and all the way back to India Suspect he would be slightly disappointed with the word retreat often used in this video, his word for this part of the operation was always the withdrawal

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

My grandfather was trained by the Japanese along with the first batches of the newly formed Burmese army. He fought the British, but later in March 1945 the Burmese switched sides and he fought the Japanese. He won many medals throughout the 1950s and 60s retired in the 70s.

[@Tarathiel123]

always love to see the long form content!

[@noahboss80]

It was my great uncle who fought in Burma for the British during which he was awarded the DSO when his camp or position I think was over run by Japanese they held on by fighting hand to hand with their knives, he survived the war however I never got to meet him as he passed far before I was around, his nickname was bunny and supposedly quite a character my dad says that his pipe was almost always glued to his lips

[@Stallion-EC]

Why not watch it again

[@NathanHe]

Hi guys I just want to ask. Will some member exclusive videos become free in a few years time?

[@KingsandGenerals]

Don't know

[@souravjaiswal-jr4bj]

Indians said no, we want Harry Potter not Anime.

[@user-jj2pd1yy7q]

Thank you very much for investing your time and energy for this informative video ❤

[@whistleblower7718]

This is battle where gurkha got their heroic tales.

[@pyaehtetaung]

K&G, can you made video about current Myanmar civil war (2021 - present).?

[@mts-sultan6209]

In South Asia we tend to see those who fought against the British as heroes. It is the same for all Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. For example Shubhash Chandra Basu is seen as the hero of the Bengalies and national hero of India, was respected by both many members of Congress and Muslim League.

[@HWDragonborn]

That's because South Asia was never under Japanese occupation. If Japan occupied India, the Indians' feelings toward Japan would be quite different.

[@DDG_IN47]

@@HWDragonbornBoth Britain and the Japs were cruel

[@adhirbose9910]

It's Bose. Not Basu.

[@adhirbose9910]

​@@HWDragonborntrue .

[@mts-sultan6209]

@@adhirbose9910 in Bengali বসু(Bashu)। In English Bose.

[@ludwigstraube3325]

Cool

[@WickedMainahbub]

Kings and generals Pacific war series and epic history Napoleon series. The two greatest military history campaign documentaries ever created.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@jayfelsberg1931]

1:22:10 - So they split their forces in two sides of a river against the Japanese....uh, OK

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

KZbin is constantly deleting my comments wtf

[@oxydoxxo]

It's election season, google can't have people out here thinking and talking for themselves.

[@joshuazarate9780]

Some of mine that are deleted I think "yeah, fair enough, too spicy." Others, I am in the same boat, wtf, what was controversial there?

[@RTXti-ez6ye]

I was banned 1 day for saying us college students supporting hamas were uneducated. ​@@joshuazarate9780

[@scottmarquardt3575]

Stop talking ship about white guys

[@Zenith121691]

You dare question the unfathomable decision of our AI overlord!?

[@chadst0r]

interesting video although i have read and watch a few documentaries around uncle bill or william slim. although i dont see much of him in this story, from my understanding he was comanding with retreat nof the forces from burma?

[@EssamAtallah]

are these new videos or grouping of old staff?

[@angamtholung4245]

I supposed this was the reason in 1943 my village Lamkang Khunou ( also a British outpost camp) just 60 miles away from Tamu ( Burma town ) that my villager where shifted in trucks for shelter to capital city Imphal ( Manipur ) as Japanese troops closes in from East of my Village (as told by my Late Grandfather 15-17 yrs old during WW2)

[@theserb102]

WOOOOOO LETS GOOOOO

[@grapeshott]

This is 2.5 hours?

[@Alec.40]

Roughly 2 hours, 34 min and 36 seconds

[@Kili2807]

Nice

[@nastro24]

Well, here, as a burmese, I can say very little people knows what happened from the ww2 perspective. From the perspective of the movement of the independence of Burma, Around 1938, the secretary of burma communist party, Thakhin Aung San, later known as a leading figure of burma independence and idea of socialism through liberty and leader of Anti-Facists organization in 1945, left to Hainan to meet with General Suzuki, inviting Japanese armed forces to liberate Burma (a little bit irony as a leader of communist party inviting Japan as their ally) , but later Japanese had another idea to deal with burma, to form a puppet government for lower resistance to their actions as looting, seizing resources. Later, Aung San and his fellow officers co-operated with the offensive in Burma, recolonization of Burma begin but the fierce civil resistance and global de colonization aura promises the independence of Burma in 1947 and gained in 1948. 7 most disastrous years of Rangoon

[@randywarren7101]

I wish you putting these videos would stop forcing people to pay to view them after , I believe the 88th week. The last weekly video I was able to watch was in the Central Solomons campaign. I am a historian at heart with an interest in Word War 2 Pacific operations and not being able to afford to see any more content is like seeing the first Star Wars film and not affording to see any others!

[@KingsandGenerals]

You have to pay to see a Star Wars film.

[@Blightagaa]

88 weeks of free content isn't enough for you?

[@WickedMainahbub]

Let me get this straight the Chindits under Wingate crossed the CHINDWIN river to start their campaign?... LOL

[@user-pb9pj8rq9c]

With the help of BIA and Azad Hind

[@aungkhant4289]

if it is ok, pls make a video of Myanmar current civil war

[@wolfishere3027]

Lots of burmese people died fighting two invaders.First it was British and then Japan.

[@CamRHYM3S]

Is it just me or does this also have an issue with being zoomed in? I know the recent weekly Pacific War was for like 5 minutes.

[@CamRHYM3S]

Maybe just the intro?

[@KingsandGenerals]

I don't see it. Which portion?

[@althisspencer]

@@KingsandGenerals I think he means "Kings and Generals present" and all the campaign names at the beginning

[@CamRHYM3S]

@@KingsandGenerals I think it’s the just cut off text from “Kings and Generals presents” at the beginning of the intro to the left and “Arakan Campaign” (which looks like it’s spelled Larakan?) at the end of the intro at the bottom. But maybe it’s just me! I don’t meant to nitpick and criticize, huge fan of the series especially these longer format videos!

[@luisoliverassantiago4603]

I love your video

[@NgarKua]

The Burma Independence Army (BIA) was formed in December 1941 in Bangkok not when Japanese got into Burma.

[@Coreycobb597]

Dude lift the membership only on vid so ppl can watch them without u forcing them to pay

[@kartikey8068]

He has spent 100 hours making, he needs some form of monetization since KZbin payout is shit and unpredictable

[@lafeelabriel]

No offense guys, but saying "Almost India" is frankly clickbait. The Japanese had never the troops available to invade India, especially not in the period this video covers. And no real plans to try either while we're at it.

[@KingsandGenerals]

None taken. We discussed various internal issues in India that made the situation very tenuous for the British.

[@BarlasofIndus]

​@@KingsandGenerals understandable

[@easyeasegraphics]

The title is wrong. It should say " How the Japanese Took Burma and Threatened The British rule of India".

[@vatsal7640]

Same thing.

[@easyeasegraphics]

@@vatsal7640 no. not the same thing.

[@vatsal7640]

@@easyeasegraphics yes, cause india was part of British empire at that time

[@rashedhaque5570]

My grandfather served in burma

[@deltacoy8758]

Japanese never threatened Indians its about allied power US Britain...

[@anananwar6073]

6:11 1:02:50 1:26:00

[@gagamba9198]

Can't take China, but the IJA 'almost took' India as well. Get a grip of yourselves.

[@ftwcrazyman]

China had a strict military regime in control of society. India at that time had nationalists rioting enough to recall British troops from the front and endangering the Burma campaign. Big difference

[@user-ks5el2re9k]

Why do u use the defender and invader, where both are invaders and burmese people are only defenders

[@The_FatGeneral]

Are you serious bro

[@jamesjavellana5]

The video is about the Burma - India Campaign of 1942. I’m just curious on why is there a US Soldier / Marine or a US military outfit in the thumbnail poster of this video? There were few US military personnel in Burma in 1942. Judging from the style of his helmet he is using I guess it’s from the 1943 - 1944 time period. The same battle outfit that US Marines wore during the battles of Tarawa or Saipan.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Good point

[@Meat-Bun]

It is weird to show the 1943-1944 American military personnel on the thumbnail of this video which is about Burma from December 1941 to Summer 1943 while there are few American military personnel involved in Burma while the Chinese nationalists didn't appear on the thumbnail despite the Chinese nationalists outnumbering the American forces in Burma during World War II.

[@tonyjohn2788]

There is a correction. Japanese never threatened Indians, instead they threatened Britishers in India. They were friendly with Indians then and now.

[@poodledoodle2416]

Stop talking out of your ass, Japanese used Indian POWs as target practice and even cooked them alive as food.

[@ftwcrazyman]

>"never threatened" >used thousands of them for forced labor to their deaths 🤔 How kind of them

[@ramal5708]

Burma, The part of the Pacific War that didn't take place in the Pacific, probably the Indian Ocean, but the series should be called the War in Asia. It was the British attempt to appear that they also did stuff against the Japanese in the Pacific, granted hands down the Indian Ocean theatre was mostly a British effort against both Japan and German assets that tried to go through the Indian Ocean.

[@davidbevan3688]

Wavell is pronounced Waayvell

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Weird combination of good pronunciation of a lot of Burmese place names, but then butchering Wavell and Auchinleck.

[@EK-gr9gd]

OKH-in-LEK

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

Wow ❤ 😲

[@-JA-]

🙂👍

[@williambrasky3891]

Back from the future to Rey it? By which you mean Star Trek? Look, I’m not telling you should keep The Federation’s Starfleet out of your mouth, but ppl are setting their phasers for you. And it’s not to stun.

[@Schaapdatmekkert]

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[@aryanjarial6465]

Taking india is like taking russia....too big a country.....incorrect to say almost took india

[@abhinavsingh5070]

You are right people in west think India is/was a small country

[@user-qz2dd1xp2u]

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[@angloaust1575]

Just doing what the british did Beforehand!

[@tharuncharri916]

Not a single mention of Churchill's role in Bengal Famine. How shameful of you to just blame only the Japanese of this famine. And completely ignore the role of denial policy or the scorthed eart policy of the British to deliberately starve the Indians. Soo much misinformation in so many of your videos 😢. Really disappointing 😕😞. Pls portray the correct history without any bias.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The Bengal famine of 1943 was a result of the major cyclone of autumn 1942 that wiped out hundreds of miles of coastal croplands and was made worse by the Japanese taking croplands in nearby Burma and the influx of over a million people fleeing the Japanese. It was nothing to do with Churchill. Churchill didn't control the weather and had his hands full in Europe leading the western fight against Nazi Germany and Italy. What Churchill DID do, however, was to ask America and Australia for help with ships and grains so that it didnt happen again in 1944. There were no famines in Bengal in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944 and 1945. Why? Because there were no massive cyclones in 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943 and 1944.

[@tharuncharri916]

@@lyndoncmp5751 That's not at all true. Bengal would have still survived starvation in spite of cyclone, if the british had not deliberately burned all rice crops and other food crops in Bengal, even though British were well aware of the conditions in Bengal. The Japanese did not take anything, they never invaded India in the first place. Churchill outrightly denied any help to the serving british officers in India. Help arrived from Iraq and Australia a year later in 1944, when millions of ppl had already died of starvation. And that too only 10,000 tons of wheat arrived from Australia which was not even enough to feed British and Indian soldiers stationed in India. And guess what India was still a major exporter of rice in 1942-1943, when some 4.6million tons of wheat went to Europe to feed the british population. The fact was Bengal would have survived, if the british had not burned all the food crops and followed the scorched policy to deny any resources to Japan. The truth was that Churchill deliberately starved many Indians because, Many INA soldiers fought the British with the help of Japan that pissed of Churchill. Churchill was completely against giving independence to India. A "White mans Burden" he called.

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

​@@tharuncharri916 not to defend Churchill, or the British, but it your guy fault too to change Bangal from mostly rice fields and farm land to other uses. Also, now REAL rice basket WAS BURMA (and Malaya to an extent), they had no reason to totally depend on Bangal for rice anymore. WW2 happened, and combined with natural disasters plus what I said were mostly cause of it. Yes, British and Churchill did make it worse though. But in your nationalistic view, free to reply me and I will not say anything back.

[@Dr.Magic.]

Hello

[@sarathm5189]

🎉🎉

[@charlesfaure1189]

Choosing the Imperial Japanese over the British betrays a profound stvpidity: the inability to distinguish between bad and infinitely worse.

[@kilo4911]

Wouldn't you take that chance if your country have been colonized for hundreds of years?

[@maximipe]

The same british who used them as cannon fodder in their war against their will, caused millions of bengals to famine and as if that were not enough, they subjected thousands indian of protestors to physical punishments in public view? You can't be serious

[@MinesAGuinness]

@@kilo4911 Seeing as my country has indeed been colonized by the English for hundreds of years, I feel I have the liberty to answer: no, I'd research whether the empire of Japan and its allies - the Nazis - were possibly infinitely worse for the future of humanity.

[@thekingminn]

You are saying this with the benefit of having hindsight.

[@yashenumulla4068]

@@MinesAGuinness That is possible now but at that time not all could believe about the Japanese Atrocity during the war as it the Empire was seen as the enemy of the British and it could be seen as propaganda by exaggerating.

[@GeorgeFrancis-dq8hu]

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[@tremainetreerat5176]

I'm going to assume that the narrator's pronunciation of the name "Wavell" as though it were the delicious, notoriously equivocating, breakfast entrée (e.g., "General Archibald waffle") was anything but coincidental. Lol

[@swarnavabanerjee4112]

Japanese were heros to Indians, unfortunately we lost

[@redpanda3339]

As an Indonesian, trust me it was lies. We used to think Japan would be our liberator, saviour, and friend. They did liberate us, but on the cost of forcing our men to fight in far away islands with barely any weapon. Forcing our women to be sex-slaves in their comfort station.

[@timtam1336]

2nd