Fall of Rangoon - Pacific War #16 Animated DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with another video on the early days of the war, as Japan is still on the offensive. In the aftermath of the Fall of Malaya and the final surrender of the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese are setting their eyes on British colony of Burma, with its key port of Rangoon, and the last of the Chinese lifelines, the Burma Road.

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[philjohnson]

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[nathanindarsingh]

That ominous feeling after watching the last segment about Brown's raid. Nothing more terrifying than watching the giant rousing from its slumber, however slowly. It's like regardless of how well the Japanese were doing, all their blitzkrieg victories, all their genius tactics and ferocious will, they were fated to be defeated. Great job Kings and Generals.

[Yashuop]

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[wolfu]

According to former 18th Army staff officer, Major Horie Masao, Japanese soldiers had a saying that said:
"Java is heaven.
Burma is hell.
New Guinea is where no one comes back alive"

The Japanese are now at the peak of their Pacific conquest, but what's about to begin, is way beyond what many of these soldiers, sailors and airmen could have imagined.

[rektgaming]

'When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today'.
An Epitaph on the Kohima memorial War cemetery of WWII .

[expandedhistory]

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[mikaelberg]

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I sincerely hope you do more of these in-depth analyses in the future!

Keep up the great work!

[alvamaki]

Couldn't be more glad to learn about these wars, especially this one, since I'm a citizen of Myanmar(Burma), and if I'm not wrong, the reason why the Japanese had so much information about the location and could make decisive plans were because of the Burmese general who led the independence movement, General Aung San. He actually sided with the Japanese in the hopes of gaining quick independence, but they only made the condition harder for the Burmese people which in terms had General Aung San siding with the British afterwards.

Due to complications and such, we don't get to learn these in this much detail, nor do we even get to know these a lot, but a big thanks to you for making this series!

[AsepTravels]

Recently learned that in WW2 my great grandfather fought with the British in the West Chin Levies against the Japanese in Chin state. He was a subedar and in 1943 he lead 2 platoons to attack a Japanese stockade. The fighting was so fierce that it became hand to hand combat and he received a blow from a rifle butt on the head but he kept on fighting until his unit’s position was being surrounded and they had to retreat.
He stayed behind with 3 men to cover the retreat and he was the last to retreat. His hand was torn from all the grenade pins when he threw over 40 grenades at the Japanese. He later said that the injured Japanese screams sounded like crying cats and it distinctively stuck with him. He was awarded the Burma Gallantry Medal for this action and I was able to look him up online amongst the BGM recipients list. Cool thing was I found the original recommendation document online that confirms and describes this in detail!

Unfortunately after the British were pushed out of Chin state, he was captured and tortured by the Japanese. They tied his hands and feet with metal wires and hung him up. His life was saved by a fellow Chin official who pleaded with the Japanese to save his life. The grandson of this guy later became bestfriends with my dad lol.

[TokuTaisho]

You are doing a great work and I'm enjoying this series, the early allied disasters in the Pacific are too often overlooked in my opinion. However, to say that the Salamaua-Lae air raid was a great success is for me quite an overstatement. Yes, 3 large transports (Yokohama Maru, Kongou Maru and Tenyou Maru) were sunk and we know how important transport ships were for the japanese, but only one small minesweeper (the Tama Maru No. 2) was damaged and later sank. For an 104 aircrafts air raid, this is very bad. Moreover, the raid fails to catch the 4 heavy cruisers of admiral Gotou and of the warships they did catch, they failed to sink any of them, only damaging the light cruiser Yubari, the large minelayer Tsugaru, the cargo ship converted seaplane plane tender Kiyokawa Maru and two old destroyers (Asanagi and Yuunagi). This actually shows the lack of experience of the american aircraft carriers pilots at the start of the war, especially in their anti-shipping role.

[jonirojonironin]

Didn't know the Dutch East Indies and Burma fell completely to the Japanese before the Philippines. The Philippines is sticking out like a sore thumb in Southeast Asia, remaining blue amidst the red.

[spynetgaming]

It's really great that this channel is covering the Pacific war.

[bloodswornaburmesehistorian]

Thank you for this video! It is great to see pieces of the Burma Campaign in such detail. My grand-aunt described the scorched earth policy and quick withdrawal in Rangoon. The destruction of the facilities earned the scorn of the locals. The loyalists saw it as British abandonment and nationalists as a sign to begin their revolt. My grandfather joined the Japanese-sponsored Burma Independence Army while my granduncle, one of the few Bamas in British service left with General Alexander. Even before they passed away, my granduncle still argued with the decision to leave Rangoon with my other relatives, who felt the British abandoned them.

[parisreid]

This has been an incredible series, more especially with the lead in sub series of the history of Japan from obscurity and isolation to the start of the war. I wait for midnight here in Australia for the next episode to arrive. Keep up this tremendous work.

[jasonvida]

Cant believe I'll be sitting here three years from now eagerly waiting for the next episode to drop. Incredible job guys! Keep it up.

[Ngwaaaron]

I love this!!! Been a fan of this channel for years now. Very happy to see my country history video!!! Thank you! With love from Myanmar.

[Max-wvrh]

Wow, it is very wonderful to see some pages of history about the Burmese campaign, Kings and Generals, you show a lot of stuffs we didn’t learn from history text book.And also, I like the way how you pronounce Burmese names.Keeping going Kings and Generals.
With many loves from Myanmar 🇲🇲

PS. Most history text book in my country emphasizes so much on its independence movement and make us believe the independence is taken by the Burmese Independence Army alone.They don’t show any scenarios and any attempts of allies trying to defend against Japan at that time.I felt like it is pure bias.

[samwill]

How you pronounce names like this from all over the planet in every time period without even pausing is just an impressive show of skill. I get tongue tied ordering at a chinese resturant.

[BurritoM]

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Thank you for all that you do, and keep up the great work!

[NeilABliss]

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