Forgotten War - Rising Sun over Imphal - S1 Ep7

DO NOT PANIC IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THE OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES YOU CAN START HERE A video discussing the planning phase of the Battles of Imphal and Kohima at the start of 1944 If you would like to become a Patreon please see – www.patreon.com/LordHardThrasher If you want merch then there is some here - https://lordhardthrasher.creator-spri... If you would like to get in touch then my email is [email protected] Please consider donations of any size to the Burma Star Memorial Fund who aim to ensure remembrance of those who fought with, in and against 14th Army 1941 – 1945 - https://burmastarmemorial.org/ PLEASE NOTE Images and footage used in this presentation are deemed to be subject to the 1953 Crown Copyright decision which ruled that all photographs and film taken by Crown personnel in uniform was in the public domain and/or is subject to UK Copyright Laws putting into the public domain by default, this includes captured footage taken from the enemy after their capitulation – see here for details - https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/cro... and the copyright is deemed to have expired 50 years after original publication. I’ve decided to try and provide a non-exhaustive online cast list below, mostly from Wikipedia articles, as well as some online reference materials BUT I cannot stress enough how bad these are compared to actually reading some books so I’ve provided a bibliography for those who want proper history. Online Cast List Allied Commanders Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Commander (SEAC) 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mo... Lt. General William Slim (aka Uncle Bill) – Commander XIVth Army 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Lt General Philip Christison – XV Corps Commander - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_... Lt Gen Cyril Lomax, Commander XXVIth Corps 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_L... Maj General Frank Messervey – 7th Indian Division Commander under Christison 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_M... Maj. Gen Harold Briggs, 5th Indian Division Commander under Chritison 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_... Brigader-Gen Bill Olds – Commander combined Troop Transport Command and all round goddamn hero of the air - https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographi... Brigader Geoffrey Evans – 9th Infantry Brigade, then suddenly 7th Indian Division Commander then Admin Box Commander - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffre... Lt Col Munshi Cree - https://www.cree.name/news/cntext207.htm Japanese Commanders Lt Gen Renya Mutaguchi – 15th Army Commander 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renya_M... Lt. General Kawabe Masakazu – Burma Area Commander 1944 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masakaz... Sakurai Tokutaro 55th Div Commander, 28th Army, not to bew confused with 28th Army’s Commander Sakura Shōzō - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokutar... Colonel Tanahashi, commanding the Japanese 112th Infantry Regiment – I can’t find a single online biography of him but there are a few mentions of him out there. It’s worth noting that on 24th Feb, having suffered 80% casualties he switched off his radios and withdrew his remaining men without orders Online Sources Battle of the Admin Box - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...    • Slim: Britains Greatest General   – Rob Lyman’s talk on Bill Slim    / @ww2tv   @WW2TV Burma Week – Burma ’44 with James Holland -    • Burma '44 - James Holland   Gurkha Regiment history of Slim -    • Slim Sahib: Britain's Greatest Ever General.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes.... – Wiki on the invasion of Burma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British.... – History of Britain in Burma Interwar US and Japanese Defence Expenditure, 2003, Willaim O’Neil E-Bay Stalking Scandal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_st... Offline Burma ’44 – James Holland Courage and Other Broadcasts – Sir William Slim, ed by Dr. Robert Lyman Defeat into Victory – Field Marshal Viscount Slim Desperate Journey – Francis Clifford Undaunted Britian And the Commonwealth’s War in the Air 1939-45 Part 2 – Ben Kite Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma – Jack Bowsher Kohima 1944 – Dr Robert Lyman Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 – Fergal Keane Slim – Roland Lewin Slim, Master of War – Dr. Robert Lyman The Burma Campaign – Frank McLynn The Reconquest of Burma 1944-45 – Dr. Robert Lyman A War of Empires – Japan, India & Britain 1941-1945 – Dr. Robert Lyman Unofficial History – Field Marshal Sir William Slim – John Douglas