World At War: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow 3 of 5

This 14th installment of a long series on World War II takes us to Burma during monsoon season. Here, the British forces were charged with protecting the Indian nation from incursion by the Japanese Empire. 1942-1944.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ww2
• world
• war
• japan
• britain
• uk
• india
• burma

[damoosebelly]

The imperialist Japanese perpetrated a great deal of heinous acts against people as they set about their goals of conquest in Asia. However, these things need to be kept in historical perspective. Thornfox is right...history is meant to inform us of triumphs and failures in the past so that we can learn from them, not so that we can hold grudges against future generations for their predecessors' mistakes or atrocities.

[Thornfox]

Shame on the documentary producers, you mean. They should've gone into more detail. That being said, don't blame modern Japan for the old one.

[able506]

damn wish i could find this in it entirety

[santiken]

Die for the Emperor?...to heck with him, he was a cowardly wimp. You great fighting men of Japan should have respected your own life. We should have teamed up against Hitler and kicked the crap out of him in less than 6 months.

[sheskiefry]

my grandfather served in the Lushai Levies attached to the Lushai brigade during the imphal campaign and the retaking of Burma campaign. He was then in the Burma army after '48. Old man's still alive and still has a 1911 holster with that original rusty ass colt magazine. Hope i see him one more time before he passes.

[pastuso1bc]

Their training was to die for the emperor. Our soldiers' training was to kill the enemy and survive another day to kill the enemy again. A dead soldier cannot fight for the emperor again. That is one of many reasons why the Japanese lost.

[Vyssevysse]

@Thornfox Optimistically, I'd like to agree with this. Realistically,however, the problem I see here is that the events that occurred in the past, have left irremovable stigmas and traumas that are still in effect today. Not to mention, that there are still many beneficiaries of these atrocities that feel they should be exempt from blame,

which in turn, worsens the residual resentment.

In the grand scheme of things, WW II might as well have been yesterday.

[pacbizkit]

my grandad was a glider pilot in ww2 n he almost got sent on a mission 2 burma to b droped behind enemy lines, by himself, with a portable radio thing, then report bak abowt enemy movements lol thank god it was cancelled

[elperugrande1954]

fucking japanese mother fuckers..we should kill all of you...maybe the next..

[teslagod2003]

@dannidandannikins huh?what have i said to make you say such thing?

[dannidandannikins]

@teslagod2003 speaking as someone who lives in japan and speaks almost fluent japanese, I have to inform you that you are full of shit. If you want to give yourself some kind of recuperative enema for your congested intellect, try thinking if all Englishmen or Americans share some particular character trait... obviously they don't; so why do you think the japanese do?