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History of the Second World War: The War Against Japan 1941-1945 ATLAS

History of the Second World War: The War Against Japan 1941-1945 ATLAS

Anon

Paperback

Series: Official Campaign History, History of the Second World War

CartographyBritish HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1783316888
ISBN13: 9781783316885
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: Oct 12 2020
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.05 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In 1941, Britain was an imperial power with colonies across south and south-east Asia. In December 1941, Japan attacked British territories in Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore and Burma. By February 1942, Japanese forces had occupied Malaya. They then launched a new attack against the strategic island of Singapore, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. On 15 February 1942, British forces in Singapore surrendered to the Japanese. Prime Minister Winston Churchill would later call the surrender 'the worst disaster...in British history'. By June 1942 the Japanese had driven British, Indian and Chinese forces out of Burma. In February 1943 3,000 British and Nepalese Gurkha troops mounted a long distance raid behind Japanese lines. These troops, known as 'Chindits', were commanded by the deeply eccentric Brigadier Orde Wingate. In spring 1944 Japan launched an invasion of India. It aimed to capture Imphal, a garrison town in the Indian border province of Manipur, and so prevent a British return to Burma. In order to isolate Imphal from a large supply base at Dimapur, Japanese troops attacked the small village of Kohima, which became the scene of ferocious fighting. In 1943 the Fourteenth Army was formed in India. Under the command of Lieutenant-General Bill Slim, the Army's task was to retake Burma from the Japanese. Slim's generalship combined effective defensive tactics with imaginative and daring offensives. He was immensely popular with the Indian, Gurkha and British troops under his command. While land forces were fighting the Japanese in Burma, the Royal Navy's British Pacific Fleet took part in naval operations in the Pacific Ocean. In the days following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and later of Nagasaki, the Japanese government debated whether to surrender. American aircraft could destroy Japanese cities at will, the Soviet Union had invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria, and the Japanese home islands were also threatened with invasion. On 15 August, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender.

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