Victory At Sea - The Road To Mandalay - Episode 24

The Japanese invade China during 1936, but the Japanese are not satisfied and they invade Indochina and Thailand, enabling the invasion of Burma. The U.S. and British navies nurture their relations with the Indian Navy as supplies are built for the return. Eventually, it was decided to build a road to link with the Burma Road, and with human and elephant power, they succeeded. Eventually, they "came back to Mandalay", and the first supplies traveled the road to hordes of cheering Chinese.

[@dewood9463]

My father was a Higgins Boat driver during the war. He participated in two invasions. This the only WW2 show he would watch.

[@claudiacotner1638]

Glad to see that the fighting in Southeast Asia was portrayed. The commanding general who beat back the Japanese and helped save that area was Bill Slim of the Brirish 14th Army. He is one of the unsung heroes of WW2

[@granskare]

+Maurice H Bank of course Slim was great. But who received the top honors in Britain? Mountbatten of Burma

[@claudiacotner1638]

+granskare Later blown up on his yacht by the IRA. There is something repulsive about killing a WWII hero-no matter what the reason!

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

The majority of this army was from India in fact .

[@tonyadams8043]

'Uncle Bill' Slim was without doubt the best British General of all time, on a par with Wellington in a vote held.

[@markadams7597]

Wow, just wow! This is a great episode! Never knew any of this about the Burma campaign. Thanks for posting.

[@wcatholic1]

The sheer scale of Industrial effort is mind boggling.

[@luisreyes1963]

If only we could be apply that to mass producing PPE's, respirators & sanitizing wipes during this viral pandemic. 😷

[@spikespa5208]

Doubtful that most folks today have a real sense of the immense worldwide economic, industrial, commercial, military and social effort that was put out in those incredible 6 years. And the loss of lives in numbers that just numb the imagination.

[@mountainmanws]

"And the vultures, they never had it so good."

[@granskare]

E very Tuesday at about 7:00, we'd be at the TV set waiting for Victory at Sea.

[@granskare]

Many thanks !!

[@bw3240]

The rape of Nanking, a thousand horrors will be brought upon a thousand generations for the evils wrought upon innocent blood.

[@claudiacotner1638]

Love that fast carrier theme!

[@mountainmanws]

"...and the vultures, they never had it so good."

[@WilmerCook]

Richard Rogers MUSIC make this documentary! Watched as a kid with my mom when it first came out on a 12" black and white tv in a big box.

[@johnbrewer1893]

does anyone remember as a child watching this and having the music embedded forever…..my younger wife? asked why we were fighting ghe French in WWII…. more time goes, the more we forget

[@ACD54]

The British Burma campaign of 1944 and especially 1945 was the most innovative and brilliant of the war. Well worth studying for its use of air supply in particular. The Ledo or Stilwell Road is now thought by most historians to have been a poor use of resources - better to have continued flying supplies to China over the "Hump" and use the effort expended on the road to drive the Japanese out of Burma earlier; as it was they were expelled only a few months after the road opened - but it was nevertheless a monumental effort.

[@patrickbennett2737]

Oh hindsight hindsight

[@granskare]

"come you back, you British soldier"

[@granskare]

thank you !!!

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

The CBI theater of war is the least known part of WW2. It was a back an forth war well into 1945.

[@dirleilopes2148]

Acabei de ver quem acaba e nós e não o mundo quanta civilização já foi e vai se despedir do mundo belo vídeo

[@romanbrough]

I have a vague memory of the BBC doing a series something like this. Anyone know of it?

[@ak9989]

World at War

[@wcatholic1]

Which theater had the worst field living conditions? I would guess whichever theater you had been assigned to.

[@granskare]

hm, perhaps this was after General Stilwell was replaced by people from DC.

[@granskare]

thanks !!

[@granskare]

Too bad General Stilwell was not portrayed.

[@claudiacotner1638]

Stillwell had problems with everyone because he was outspoken, but he was a great leader and had a lot to do with the victory in S.E.A

[@granskare]

+Maurice H Bank I had a book about Stilwell by one of the better writers about WW2....Barbara Tuchman...Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 - the top C hinese leader was only interested in getting control of lend-lease, to save supplies to fight the Mao and the communists.

[@granskare]

Many thanks !!!

[@williamcanter3233]

No ads.

[@tonyadams8043]

The Japanese all sitting around a large table with a band playing, trying to appear civilised. That was so far from the truth, their behaviour throughout the war was as far from civilised as you can get.

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[@WilmerCook]

Wounded how much these Chinese laborers were payed?

[@carlstritzinger6724]

I believe that the Americans added a lot of help in supplies, equipment and GI's and in particular Merrill's Mauraders, not a mention of any of this.

[@jhayes1944]

Or of Vinegar Joe Stillwell

[@haroldcullison6723]

Can't enjoy the program because busy turning volume up and down.

[@claudiacotner1638]

Did anyone catch the Indian sailor running into the other one as they went to their battlestations? It looked staged!(LOL)

[@ditzydoo4378]

Japan's thinking at the time, that they were destined to rule over all goes to show how none of them ever stopped to do the basic math. A nation 22 million, of which only maybe 5 million were fit to serve were going up against the over 2.3 billion of the world, roughly 400 million that could serve at that time.

[@berniejacque4544]

I love the old Chinese music in these w.w. 2 propaganda films.

[@jasonspence7591scorpion]

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