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Another Capital Captured (Patreon)

Published:
2021-03-10 15:32:44
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2023-06

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This week Japanese forces continue their rapid advance on southeast Asia with the capture of the Burmese capital Rangoon and offensives on and around New Guinea. While the Allies are still able to cling to the Philippines, their leader Douglas MacArthur has escaped. Meanwhile in North Africa, Churchill forces commander Claude Auchinleck to carry out an offensive against Axis forces, even though prospects for success are bleak.

If you were a citizen of the year 1942, how would you feel about this week? German forces are totally control territory spanning from Brest in Western France to Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Japan has in less than 100 days captured a huge amount of territory that for hundreds of years was part of Western colonial empires, and ran circles around the Allied navies. With the luxury of hindsight we can often overlook how uncertain this time felt, but for many people around the world the situation seemed dire. 

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Tumbling Capitals - MacArthur on the Run - March 13, 1942 - WW2 - 133

Rangoon in Burma falls to the invaders without a shot, the Dutch East Indies surrender 100,000 men to them at Batavia, and the Japanese land on New Guinea and begin their advance on port Moresby. The first phase of their offensives is now over. The Philippines still hold out, their armies under siege at Bataan, but Douglas MacArthur, Allied commander there, has made his getaway, one day to hopefully return. American troops do begin landings on New Caledonia, to build a base there to begin the fight back. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Mikołaj Uchman - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ Sources: - bockelsound from Freesound.org Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Fabien Tell - Break Free - Philip Ayers - The Unexplored - Howard Harper-Barnes- Underlying Truth - Gunnar Johnsen - Not Safe Yet - Reynard Seidel - Rush of Blood - Flouw - A Far Cry - Philip Ayers - Trapped in a Maze Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Ps please cover the dissmissal of Witzleben and Bringing von Rundstedt back in OB west next week. Keep up the amazing work.

Anonymous

I'm very glad to see Stilwell there and the mention of his not listening to Chinese experience on how to fight Japan. Also, I am very pleased that you mentioned that the 5 and 6th armies are really the size of a Japanese division. Are you going to talk about the Burma independence army and Aung San? The allied defense of Burma is made more complicated right now because the majority Bama people in the Irrawaddy and Salween river deltas are in open revolt and they are attacking the South Asians who they see, somewhat reasonably, as the imported middle managers of British colonialism. When you talk about Rangoon being emptied out, a lot of that is the south Asian community packing their bags and running. There is something like a million refugees, mostly Indian, fleeing towards the Indian border now.

Haldon Lindstrom

I think that many amateur historians like myself have been so thoroughly taught that "the Axis powers were doomed to failure" by many brilliant studies of the economics behind the war that it's hard to remember just how it must have felt at the time, even for political and military leaders. When you add the startling collapse of France, it becomes even more clear both why the Axis leadership grew overconfident, and why the Allied public and leaders could be afraid that defeat would come for them too.

Anonymous

How would i feel? Interesting question to me as a german. Maybe that helps: In fact I asked my grandmother such questions often when she was still alive and was a young girl in the 3rd Reich. Also part of "BDM" = Bund deutsche Mädels. In fact, she didnt know a lot about bad aspects of the war as this was mostly prevented by Nazi propaganda. The only thing she remembered, that some people "disappeared" overnight and it was better not to question it.

Anonymous

To respond at the question: I wouldn't have known... I would be under military occupation by the Nazis... so informations were a little bias ...

Anonymous

Thanks a lot guys for a dressing my question on Japanese brutality ! Totally agree bushido explanation seems really insufficient ...

Anonymous
>>55312711

sorry. I just always found Witzleben intresting. Not just for July 20th, but also Fall rot and his command of OB west

Anonymous

Glad to hear you guys mentioning Seabees. My Grandpa was a Seabee working on aircraft carriers in WW2 and Korea. Unfortunately, not many people know about their important role in the Navy

Anonymous

Regarding Japanese administration of conquered territories, I worked for several years on Guam during the 1980s. Some of my Chamorro co-workers related stories of the war years that they heard from parents. One said the initial occupation was managed by the Japanese Navy and was much less harsh than what came later. An example he gave was how at the time of the Japanese invasion the island was experiencing an outbreak of “pink-eye” that the American administration had been unable to eradicate; doctors with the Japanese Navy distributed medicine that quickly ended the sickness. In 1944 administration was handed from the Navy to the Japanese Army in anticipation of an impending American invasion, and life became much more difficult for the local population. A Chamorro colleague said that though his mother had lost a great deal of her land when the returning American military greatly expanded their pre-war bases by forcing many local families to sell, she would be fine to be left with just enough land for her house and a garden, “as long as the Japanese don’t come back.” (Of course, some families who lost land in these sales were not as accepting as my friend’s mother.) Another piece of history is that the Japanese occupiers brought in Chamorros from the nearby Japanese-managed island of Saipan to act as translators--including for interrogations of locals; this resulted in a post-war residue of bad feelings between the Chamorros of these two islands. In any case, by the time I arrived on Guam the island’s private industry was tourist-driven, and over 90 percent of the tourists were coming from Japan.

Anonymous

Indy, I find the week-by-week format of your series absolutely fascinating. I have a minor in history, my father was a rear gunner in the RCAF and sole survivor of his Lancaster bomber over the Ruhr, and he spoke often of the war, and I’ve watched countless documentaries about the war and read countless books. I’ve always approached WWII history with the knowledge that we won, and several episodes back, I commented to my wife that seeing how badly the war was going, I would have felt a sensation of rising panic as it seemed more and more certain that the Axis would win. I really enjoy every episode, and am finding that following it week-by-week makes it utterly different from any studies I’ve ever done. I only regret that my father passed away six years ago, too early to watch the series - he would have loved it! Keep up the great work folks. Lance in Ontario, Canada.

Anonymous
>>55336357

I take you've seen the old John Wayne The Fighting Seabees movie by now ? I sure enjoyed that one !

Anonymous

Bryan Perret's "Tank Tracks to Rangoon" has a rather different take on the Japanese 33rd Div's leaving the roadblock that had Alexander et al in mortal danger at Taukkyon. On p. 43 he says the Comd 33rd Div wanted very badly to be the first Japanese unit into Rangoon, and the roadblock was only a rifle company sized flank guard for the Division while it crossed the road to Prome, then turned south to head for Rangoon. The company commander didn't withdraw due to the size of the British force, he just simply followed his orders to secure the road until the 33rd Div was clear of it then join the division on the march. Either way, what a near run thing !

Anonymous

I finally joined yesterday and just logged in to see this video waiting for me. I'm so accustomed to seeing them pop up on my YT feed on Saturday morning that for a moment I thought I had lost a day! Easy to do in these Coronavirus times.

Anonymous

I posted in the YT comments but then remembered I’m a patron, so I’m paraphrasing my question here: what’s going on in the ports of SE China? Japan took these so early, yet the map hasn’t changed. What are the Japanese plans for these areas? Are Chinese forces trying to retake them?