Burma in world war two.?
at the end of world war 2 the soliders who were in burma stayed there for years after as no one told them the war war was over. my partners grandfather, from scotland was one of these men and we are trying so find info on line about him and the soliders who were there. if anyone knows how to get this info i would be very greatful. His name surname was robin and he was a tank commandor! possible nick name was jack. all help will be fab x
What happened to the Burma Road after World War 2?
The following is what you can read from Wikipedia about the road, it’s rather short and gives you the basics of it during the war. Not much else is mentioned, but I’ll offer my thoughts after the little info is shared here:The Burma Road (Chinese: 滇缅公路) was a roadlinking Burma with the southwest of China. Its terminals were Kunming, Yunnan, and Lashio, Burma. It was built while Burma was a British colony in order to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Preventing the flow of supplies on the road helped motivate the occupation of Burma by the Empire of Japan in 1942. Use of the road was restored to the Allies in 1945 after the completion of the Ledo Road. Some parts of the old road are still visible today.[1]As the very last words mention, some parts of the road are still visible today, which would suggest that upon the conclusion of hostilities, plus upon it’s closure by Japan when it over ran Burma during the war, it simply was a short lived means of getting supplies from the Ocean to Chinese forces fighting Japan on their own soil. After the war the road may have been used some, but unlikely for it was the British who were instrumental with it’s building in the first place. Add to this the fact that it is 717 miles long, running through some of harshest areas a road could be built, maintaining it simply would be a monetary nightmare. The next reason, and the one which makes most sense, not long after the second world war was finished, strife again began in China when communists lead by Mao slowly began winning and in 1948 Chiang-kai-Shek, and the leadership of nationalist China fled to modern day Taiwan. With no need of the road, like what happens to those roads abandoned over time, the slowly vanish into the environment.
World War II: What is 'Burma Boys'?
lure,The 'Burma Boy' refers to the African soldiers recruited by the British to fight in World War II. Many were deployed in India to fight the Japanese. Al Jazeera recently did a documentary as their mission unlike a real news organization is to demonize the West. While they are right, these soldiers like the British and Americans who fought in the CBI (China, Burma India Theater) never got the recognition they deserved. So it is good that the story is being told.As is standard for Al Jazeera, their story is basically an exercise in disinformation. Their point they wanted to make was that the men were fighting for the British Empire and they and their homelands (mostly West African colonies) had no stake in the War. Note that Al Jazeera does not do a story about the Grand Mufti spending the war in Berlin and encouraging Hitler and Himmler to kill more Jews. Or his role in forming Muslim SS units who left a trail of blood and destruction in their wake throughout the Balkans. The true story is that many Muslim leaders (especially the Arabs) were pro-NAZI. The Grand Mufti was the best example, but hardly the only one. Muslims in Indonesia, for example, collaborated with the Japanese.For their support the Japanese were responsible for terrible famine Some 5 million perished in Indonesia alone. Al Jazeera mentions nothing of this The Axis had terrible racist ideas. We all know about the NAZIs and the Jews, but the Jews were just the tip of the iceberg. The NAZIs and Japanese both held Africans in contempt for racial reasons. The Germans in the Reich set out, for example, to sterilize the Rhineland Babies--the children of French African occupation troops and German mothers. Propaganda Minister Goebbels produced along with ant0Semetic propaganda , anti-Africa propaganda with the same vicious stereotypes.Had the Axis won the War, the new Axis colonial rulers of Africa would have imposed the same brutal atrocities on Africa that we are familiar with in NAZI killing and slave labor operations in Eastern Europe and Japanese atrocities in China. Al Jazeera mentions nothing of this. In short the African Boys never got the recognition that they deserve and should be honored in Word War II histories. It is a lie that they were exploited by British imperialism. They were bravely fighting in a noble mission to save themselves and their people from the Axis racists ready to impose a regime of unbelievable cruelty on the African people.
What happened in World War II with Burma?
One of my grandfathers is from Cameroon, which was partially a British colony at the time. My dad said soldiers were recruited from the country and my grandfather fought in Burma. So I'm wondering what exactly British forces as a whole did in Burma, and specifically African (like Nigeria and British Cameroon), if you have any knowledge of that. Did they have a positive impact? If so, how? I know absolutely nothing about it, but I'm very interested.
India and Burma during World War II?
Japan entered Burma through Thailand and Laos. The Japanese entered French Indochina because they were allies with Germany and Germany had defeated France. The French Vichy government allowed Japan to enter . The Thai government sided with the Japanese and attempted to declare war on the US but the Thai ambassador refused to deliver the declaration. The British had only a small contingent of soldiers stationed in Burma, and most of these managed to leave for India fighting a rearguard action. India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) were the base areas for the China-Burma-India theatre of operations with the British commanding that theatre. There were several operations led by Lt. Col. (later Brig. Gen) Orde Wingate and others of the British army which included Indian soldiers. Lt. General (later General) Vinegar Joe Stillwell of the US Army commanded US troops in China and Burma as well as Chinese troops in the China-Burma area. (Technically on paper he commanded all Chinese troops but he rarely had Chinese Communist troops under his command and General Chiang Kai Shek kept sending Stillwell his worst "Nationalist" troops [the poorest trained and armed] and kept countermanding many of Stillwell's orders). Stillwell fought alongside his troops on the many months he was in the Burmese jungles on operations. He was no rear echelon general. Stillwell and Lt. Col (later Brig. Gen) Chennault (of the "Flying Tigers" fame) never liked each other and constantly argued. Chennault was close to Chiang Kai Shek who also disliked Stillwell.
What was Myanmar’s (Burma) role in World War II?
Short Ans: Bridge to China.Long Ans: The Japanese took Burma(then British colony) for their war efforts and to form a buffer to Malaya with the promise of forming the first Burmese nation and military. Burma was a stretgic location for the Allies support to China (research Burma Road, Ledo Road). The whole of Burma was flattened due to the bombings from both the Allies and the Japanese, (Most of Yangon survived due to Japanese’s decision not to defend the city).
What would have happened if India and Burma both fell to the Japanese, during World War 2?
The same thing that happened to Germany when they spread themselves thin in northern Africa and Russia.Japan had relatively little in raw materials for their war machine. They were disgustingly vicious taking large swaths of Chinese territory slaughtering Chinese civilians and raping and pilidging the countryside.I believe India would have held out and it probably would have shortened the war had they been successful taking those countries.You have to hold what you take. What both the Japanese and Germans didn't count on was America's industrial might joining the war.After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Admiral said, “I'm afraid we have awoken a sleeping giant.”He was right.
How world war 1 affect Myanmar(Burmer)?
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If India and Burma surrendered to Japan during World War 2, how would it affect the war in Europe?
Hello, Matthew.Burma and India were part of the British Empire. Burma fell to the Japanese in 1942. Great Britain would not have surrendered India, and the Japanese were stretched too thin for a conquest of India. (They fought in Manchuria 14 years without subduing it.) But if by some chance the British stumbled and lost India, it would have deprived Britain of a source of soldiers — the British India Army was the largest volunteer force in history, with 2.5 million men by war’s end, who included some of the fiercest fighters in war. Losing India would have meant loss of a variety of tropical products and coal. However, India’s great strategic significance was as an anchor for Allied actions into the Asian war.