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Excellent your Lordship and, as usual, done with wit drier than the Gibson Desert! I'm thoroughly looking forward to the future episodes!

PRAT !

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I'm sorry to chime in like this, but I have to raise a few points about Stillwell (honestly I kinda feel for the guy). While lacking combat experience, he wasn't half bad, and the Americans considered him to be one of their best infantry commanders, and would prove it in the Louisiana Maneuvers. Also, it wasn't a joke to send him to China, because Marshall was looking for a man who spoke Mandarin, had been to China and was of sufficient rank to not offend Chiang with the appointment. Not many who fit that bill in 1940s US Army. And a final thing, Stillwell was an honest man, and proved to be incorruptible with regards to Lend-Lease. I think Marshall was afraid that China would just absorb all the aid and not do any fighting by buying off or manipulating (ge. So'n'so, you are the only one who truly understands China and such, probably said by a beautiful Chinese woman) the American controlling it and lobbying in Washington (which is what Chiang actually wanted, or more likely his wife's family). As to why he remained for two years after the Peanut incident (he was right by the way, Chiang's bald head really does look like a peanut), the Chinese were angling for Chennault to take over for Stillwell, and he, like the Chinese was corrupt and venal, but unlike the Chinese, was actually stupid.

1:00:45 Put it this way; there is a whole section of the Department of Veterans Affairs website dedicated to F-111 maintenance staff.

I hope you can do a cross over with Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles, that would be great

Please accept my apologies. I would have watched this video earlier but I found that I needed new boots for the moors. Now, freshly returned from my boot makers in London, I'm ready for the show.

Fascinating. Some of this is new to me. Can't wait for the next installment.

As I get older the more I learn about history and Bill Slim is a total hero of mine. His army too. On a sadder note my Aunt Beatrix was to marry a young lad who went off to war. He went to be a Chindit and never came back. She never married and his picture was by her side all her life. All war is hard, but Burma was very hard indeed. Thanks for putting a spotlight on it.

Yeah and I'm sure someone with such a cocksure and dissmisive atittude like yourself has no agenda as you rant and rave about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the ME-262.

Let there be no mistake ... war is hell ...and yet we are stuck in a cycle of endless wars .

Beautiful work !!! I enjoyed every second. Can’t wait for part 2.

Very interesting video, as usual. Did you know Monty's pet dog was flattened by a passing tank?

Just finished watching the BoB series. Awesome stuff, gotta say. As an experienced simulator pilot, who has flown battle of britain missions, with hundreds of aircraft at a time, i can fully understand that every air crew member involved was terrified and tired. One little thing. The term "Idiotenreihe" i.e. "row of idiots" doesn't referr to the Vic formation, but to echelon right/left, like seen at 25:01

There is a reason why the USA only built 12,000 B17's while they built 18,000 B24 in a shorter operational time.

"Every body likes jets!" Agreed! Well, except for those baseball perverts.

I simply had to cancel my 5:45 AM auto-gyro flight to Siam so I could see this video a second time. Wonderful stuff. Thanks.

As far as most British people back home the 14th Army may as well be on the Moon.

Can't wait until you get to the tennis court...

Awesome work impatiently waiting for number 2

My Great Grandfather flew a B17 for over eight months and he loved it. But then he quit War Thunder and moved to World of Warcraft

Hmmm. The national labs a few miles away from my city is always getting authorized fer more pits. I too, thought holes. Not that I thought it was any safer.

you say its trash right well good thin you dont mind useing the b 29 vs landcaster wth the b 29 being made only 3 years befor the landcaster right o wait i rember love the utube video b 17 vs land caster it realy shows how one sided the british are the b 29 wold have been the right one to vs oooo wait i just relized you newer landcaster vs are b 29 wold have been a win o wait not for you but for the usa b 29 it was better in every way it even tells you its better buy going on google and it tells you way hell even the the plane over heats becouse it pushed out so much power lol the bomb load was better to every thang on the b 29 was better and it was built befor your landcaster but no you wether us a realy old b 17 to vs your graet landcaster more like land crasher butits fine you britsh dont make videos on what can eazly beat you bride up you wether us arerealy old planes to bash on lol the booms you had was nothing to the b 29 hell we even used that b 29 to hold and use the atomic bomb dont belive me look it up or was it the other one ether way its like a nuke level of power it was big ether way and yes theres nukes with bigger and smaller boom to thim

Glad you included Clarkson on that list. Just like dictators and sith, he is always seeking more power.

"german efficiency", huh?

Jolly good, however I'll lememt the loss of more land series by the suppressor of rotary wing pilots. A+ none the less.

Great introduction to the Burma Campaign! Even if it's also forgotten here the campaign had a large cascading effect on Thai politics for the rest of the 20th century. Originally Thailand was scheduled to join the Japanese assault on Rangoon but was not allowed to due to fears that it would alienate Japanese relations with the Burmese nationalists. After a lot of angry letters to Tokyo Thailand was allowed to operate troops in the Shan States, but the command at the time had zero clue of what they were doing and many of the men suffered from atrocious logistics. Moreover, the Japanese did not share any supplies with them and treated their allies the same way they did their colonial subjects. In the last stages of the campaign as the Japanese made their frantic retreat back to the Thai border the Thai troops operating in the Shan states were given zero support from Japan or Thailand (whose fascist government had been overthrown by the pro-American faction in 1944). When the war was over the Japanese got to go home in requisitioned trains, but the Thai troops had to walk home 1000s of kilometers on foot through some of the harshest tropical jungles in the world because the new post-war government (same people who were in charge the last stage of the war) disbanded all of them without warning. With the Japanese gone and the Americans concluding Thailand's war participation as forced by the Japanese, they channeled all of their anger for their suffering to the pro-American government and launched a coup in 1947 to install the old fascist guy back. The coup pretty much started the endless cycle of military coups that would last until today. Looking forward to part 2 and eventually Imphal, a battle so disastrous that Renya Mutaguchi became synonymous with incompetence in Japan!

my grandfather served in burma, the one thing that saved him was he was a good swimmer!

Thanks fer the cookie.

In other words, Goering was not so much a shadow of his former self but had created a much larger shadow than his former self.

Your GrandMas story getting bombed is CRAzY!! Glad Nan made it tnrough.

This dude is kinda funny!

Great cousin Harry was captured in Burma. Spent the war building roads and railways. Not much left of him when he came home. Poor man.

Sorry LHT , the background music really, really SUCKS, you dont need it, or PLEASE, for all that is holy ,use something less repetitive.

This was the theatre where my great-grandfather served in the Royal Signals as a radio operator and telegraphist. By the end of the war he had become a photographer for the Royal Signals, and took photographs of the signing of the Japanese surrender in this theatre. He passed away before I was born, but I'm told he never liked to discuss his service - from his perspective conscription just led to him being sent off to the other side of the world and not seeing his wife or children for more than four years.

Your, er, robust language seems to have been hit by the 2024 equivalent of Mary Whitehouse. Though she was more concerned with sins of the flesh rather than fruity language. Bring back the expletives!!!

I very much enjoy the more modern stuff.

20:04 so because of that fucker a lot of US crew just died needlessly

I was wondering what your opinion on the Fw-190 was during the war and if it was rubbish by late war or on par with the Allied planes

Does the Komet deserve special consideration from the Darwin Awards committee A multi faceted suicide machine aimed at the Luftwaffe seems to be very advantageous to humanity Especially as the chances of it inflicting damage to people who disagreed with the general concept of Nazism seemed statistically insignificant

Good on you Thrasher for constantly challenging the weird pro-German take that so many World War II nerds seem to have these days. They constantly bag allied equipment, especially British, but look at some of the Nazi "triumphs" they champion.

I can't wait for you to AVOID DISCUSSING the first combat rescue by HELICOPTER NEAR THE END OF THIS VERY CAMPAIGN

I thought hydrogen-peroxide only burned when applied to wounds..

The narrator is funny

Thank you for this. My father was a sergeant stationed in northern India, part of the support system for the US contingent in the theater. It is fascinating to hear the larger background.

Since I was one of those despicable Infantryman, that you abhor, I give a hearty "hooa!" every time you mention us. Carry On!

Like Guinness, I could live off this.

Heh, this aircraft talk is prop aganda

Thrasy, sterling effort about a largely forgotten campaign! Absolute respect for all combatants who fought in this jungle hell hole. Can’t wait for the subsequent episodes. 👍🏻

Many many thanks for covering this. My Grandad was also in Burma, afaik a squaddie who spent a few years in a Japanese POW camp, he didn't talk about it at all. So it's good to see wth happened over there.