Were the British or other Allied troops going to be involved in the invasion? - #OOTF #shorts

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[WorldWarTwo]

This question comes from ashleybrooks565, thank you for the question!

[oldesertguy]

That would have been interesting to see Brits with Garands.

[jliller]

The Commonwealth troops would have been busy in Malaysia and other parts of the East Indies. The French were kind of busy still piecing their country back together, but if given the chance to get involved in the Pacific would have no doubt wanted to retake French Indo-China instead of helping with the Olympic invasions.

[emmiannon]

You can see the conflict between not wanting to lose too many US troops VS not wanting the British to go meddling in Japan

[ThePedroski]

The British declared war on Japan 9 hours before the US (Japan attacked Brit forces in malaya, Singapore, etc at same time as Pearl Harbour. Churchill instructed the British Ambassador to Japan to inform the Japanese government that a state of war exists between the two countries and drafted a letter to the Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom to inform him of this. Of the letter, Churchill later wrote: "Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

[yewenyi]

The Australians were very pissed off that the Americans left them out of the main invasion plans and made them fight in side battles. The Japanese invaded Malaysia before they hit pearl harbour.

[Jaxck]

My great-uncle was a commando at the end of the war. He was stationed in China that summer in anticipation of being deployed in specialist operations to support the invasion. Thank christ the invasion never took place, because if those operations were anything like those in Europe the casualty ratios would've been appaling.

[BigTiBu]

Interestingly it seems like while they'd be using US materiel for logistical reasons, they did argue for and agree to use their own uniforms.

[craggleshenanigans]

I do remember reading somewhere that the Philippines was prepared to contribute a division for the invasion, although the Allies were wary about them (or forces from other countries occupied by Japan for that matter) because they feared of retaliation they might inflict on the Japanese populace

[Notto-tndy]

I just can't stop noticing the absence of Königsberg and the surrounding landmass on the map.

[davidwright]

My Grandfather was in Egypt on VE Day at an RAF flight training unit doing his basic flight training as a radio operator/navigator with bomber command. They were stood down from training just after VE Day and were due to begin training again if tiger force was deployed. In the event that didn’t happen so he had two fairly uneventful years as a base guard in the Canal Zone and never got his flight rank.

[sheskiefry]

Commonwealth troops with garands? The mad minute would become an insane 30 seconds!

[brewup]

Bit narrow sighted considering the largest death toll, by far, for the Japanese was fighting British and Commonwealth troops in Burma 😬

[gordonbott]

My Uncle was a tank driver in the Desert Rats
He served from North Africa, Italy, Normandy and ended the war in Kiel Germany. In 1945 he was being re-trained to
drive a Cromwell tank for service in Japan when the A bomb was dropped and Japan surrendered. He always believed that by that time he had done enough fighting and that his chances of living through a war in Japan would have been zero
He

[Anymouse]

There was also supposed to be western Japan as a Republic of China occupation zone.

[utlrbok]

Hi from Britland; back in the 80s I spoke to an old soldier, Tommy Souden, a neighbour of my parents and he told me his paybook was stamped "for duty in the far east", he was stationed in Germany as part of the British occupation forces at the time. The video gives the impression that US commanders were forcing commonwealth troops into the US system. On reflection this makes sense because it means full integration of command, communications and logistics, especially ammunition and spares.

[mateusz]

Its all about logistics at the end of the day

[nomdeplume]

My late father in law served with the 50th Northumberland Infantry Division from 1941 to 1946. After D-Day when his Regiment got near the German border they were withdrawn to the UK.

Having fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France, Belgium and the Nederlands he thought they would go into reserve as a training regiment.

Instead they were given two weeks leave and then re-equipped and put on a ship to the Far East. It was while sailing through Biscay that the Japanese surrendered and the they were diverted to Italy and stayed there until being de-mobbed in 1946.

[Pte.Fletcher]

I met a British veteran yesterday who told us that he was moments away from being shipped back out to the East to fight in Japan, but then the bombs were dropped.

[ScottfromNB]

My dad, serving on the recently repaired HMCS New Glasgow, (They had rammed a sub off of Northern Ireland in March 1945) was on leave at home in Moncton, New Brunswick, waiting to ship out to the Pacific in the fall, when the war ended. He was discharged in September 1945.