Week 313 - Soviet Victory in Manchuria - WW2 - August 24, 1945

The Soviet Red Army completes its conquest of Manchuria and the northern half of Korea this week, although Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender already last week. Behind the scenes are machinations going on by Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong that they hope will lead to a Communist China in future. Vietnam might well be going communist right now, though, for the August revolution continues with the Viet Minh taking ever more control.

00:00 INTRO
00:34 RECAP
00:49 CHIANG, MAO, AND STALIN
07:32 SOVIET VICTORY IN MANCHURIA
09:08 VIET MINH TAKING CONTROL
11:45 SUMMARY
12:31 CONCLUSION
13:20 JULIUS POOLE MEMORIAL

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[WorldWarTwo]

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[jasondouglas]

Gentlemen it has been an honor to go through this series with you.

[nickmacarius]

As we have learned from the First World War: just because the war is "over, " doesn't mean that the wars are over.

[GrantMcgowan]

Imagine being a Soviet soldier at the top of the Reichstag waving the flag after fighting the nazis for 4 years and then hear "men we are going to japan".

[danielstickney]

The big advantage of the Navy is no matter how far you go in a day you're still within walking distance of the mess hall and your bunk. The disadvantage is there is nowhere to hide when the shells start flying in your direction.

[derekdube]

The shortest episode in 3 years, its really coming to an

[chironpl]

Being a son of WWII vet, and also having served as a VA psychologist I note what was said about the man honored in the last segment. Most veterans don't talk about what their experience was like, as most people don't go into a lot of detail on their life stories. But particularly for combat veterans who have endured trauma that reticence makes it hard to recover. Getting vets to talk to other vets has helped, that peer to peer context means they feel enough safety and understanding to open up and find the ways of healing

[pathutchison]

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[Canofasahi]

To think of it that it will be another 29 years (March 1974) that Hiroo Onoda refused to surrender until he was relieved of duty by his former commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi.

In this timeline that will be in 2053, I will be almost as old as Hiroo Onoda who died at the age of 91 in January 2014

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[topi]

One week to go, boy what an ride. Every saturday had to tune in for weekly episode... Nice work and thank you Indy and the A-Team!!

[greenkoopa]

Goodbye friends thank you for this journey. The WAH series left me crushed every single week.
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[gunman]

A rather interesting sidenote this week on August 20 1945 is that the final naval engagement of the war will take place along the Chinese coast between Wenzhou and Shanghai between a Japanese-manned junk equipped with a howitzer and two smaller Sino-American junks each equipped with a bazooka (five rounds each) and various small arms.

The Allied junks were part of the U.S. Navy Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO). The Japanese junk would surrender after 44 of its 83-men crew were killed along with 35 wounded. 4 Chinese were killed on the Allied side while 4 Chinese and 1 American were wounded. This would mark the last US Navy engagement in a vessel powered by sail.

[FrowningCatt]

Yes, the war has certainly developed in such a way as to not be in Japan's favor anymore....

[pnutz_]

this ho chi minh guy sounds like he's going to be showing up for a while...

[Gbaby]

I can't imagine there are many more episodes??? THanks for all u do, Indy!!! Much love and gratitude from close to Toronto

[markrook]

This episode is actually the first episode of “Vietnam Week By Week”. It will run until 2054….

[johnmayfield]

Man as this war ends I like to remember some random stuff that stuck in my mind: The germans and soviets fighting over an oil field in the polish occupied zones. The british sending all their planes from the middle of UK to fight the luftwaffe in a gamble. Bletchly park becoming a thing, the U boat sinking a ship in the Nova scotia, millions dead in India by famine, the 50 cal bullet that tumbled and didnt hurt the admiral at pearl harbour, the motis in finland and that one bunker the soviets tried to crack for so long until they secretly brought in a 155 howitzer piece by piece, the French colonies in africa siding with the free french, a quote by indy about a bust of mussolini standing disappointed in africa, that german colonel who died in a plane after getting awarded a medal by hitler for commanding a return to the german lines (the amoeba ), the mosquito bomber bombing berlin, argentina and chile duking it out. The chinese sacking their top general for corruption, oh and the germans having to frontaly push to el alamein because of a cliff, that one french commander enjoying an ommlete while looking at a photo of him accepting the german surrender of ww1, and that turkish spy cecero ofc.
And much much more.

[Starkada]

I started this series 5 years ago and haven't missed an episode. Honestly, it has been truly exhausting to get to better understand what a nightmare war this was, and to feel the time slowly going by with so much death and destruction. I wish everyone got to have this experience to keep us all reminded of how great us Americans have it during the (relatively) peaceful time that we enjoy right now.

[Thenato]

Well if you can't trust your enemy, who can you trust !