Tango01  | 24 Oct 2018 2:27 p.m. PST |
"The campaign in which Allied forces defeated the Japanese in Burma was unique in that neither side particularly wished to wage war there. When Japan entered the war on the side of the Axis powers in December 1941, her main aims were to acquire raw materials, particularly oil, rubber and tin and, through expansion of the so-called Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, to create space for the population of the over-crowded home islands. These needs fired the strategic thinking of belligerent politicians and service chiefs in Tokyo. They worked on the assumption that a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet's base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, would enable the Imperial Japanese army, air force and navy to attain the warlords' territorial aims before the western Allies could react…."
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| Legion 4 | 24 Oct 2018 2:45 p.m. PST |
Another very interesting front that seems not to get as much gaming as Europe. |
| TacticalPainter01 | 24 Oct 2018 9:43 p.m. PST |
Chinese, British, Americans, Indians, Burmans and Japanese, then throw in Chindits, Marauders and other irregulars, and what's not to like and hold your interest? |
| Jcfrog | 25 Oct 2018 2:41 a.m. PST |
Sometimes needs Burmese buildings and then stuck! |
| Legion 4 | 25 Oct 2018 5:51 a.m. PST |
I'm with you on the TP1 … I found the study and gaming the CBI very interesting. Yes, the US Marauders, UK Chindits, Gurkha Paras, etc. Even the Brits were still using the M3 Grant/Lee MBTs. |
| Legion 4 | 25 Oct 2018 5:54 a.m. PST |
I'm with you on the TP1 … I found the study and gaming the CBI very interesting. The US Marauders, UK Chindits, Gurkha Paras, etc. Even the Brits were still using the M3 Grant/Lee MBTs. |
| Keith Talent | 25 Oct 2018 7:30 a.m. PST |
A campaign I've never studied.
Any good book suggestions for starters? |
 Mserafin | 25 Oct 2018 8:41 a.m. PST |
I'm partial to "Burma: The Longest War" by Louis Allen. An excellent overall summary.
"Quartered Sage Out Here" by George MacDonald Fraser (author of the Flashman series) is an excellent memoir from the campaign. |
| Tango01 | 25 Oct 2018 9:38 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile)
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| Windy Miller | 25 Oct 2018 1:20 p.m. PST |
You can't go far wrong by starting off with Defeat into Victory by Bill Slim. He was the bloke what beat the Japs after all. Road of Bones by Fergal Keane is worth a read too on Kohima/Imphal. Another vote for Quartered Safe out Here for the drive to Meiktila and Rangoon, and The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters for the Chindits. Its a fascinating campaign often overshadowed by events elsewhere. Slim's army was a truly multinational force, besides being the largest Commonwealth Army of the Second World War, with over a million men drawn mostly from India, Britain and Africa. |
| Mithmee | 25 Oct 2018 5:58 p.m. PST |
Brutal area; diseases, rough terrain, no road network, major rain season that lasts for months. The US Marauders were a broken unit at the end. The man were in no shape and were shipped back to rear areas. But this is a great area to run small scale battles. |
