When 30 Tanks Routed 8000 men - The Battle of Slim River Animated
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Literally every position 11th Division tried to hold :"A great defensive position"
CIA please stop de-stabliazing the middle east...
@@Ronald98 also South America.
Shhh guys or he will give you syphilis
AIDS*
Well yes since they just marched past the ones that wouldnt be good.
Where will Britain get it's rubber from now? 😭
Dutch East Indies?
when the Fuehrer Comes over I here he beleives in racial hygiene so have no worries there will be a rubber in Britain's future
dave obviously sri lanka, historical game btw
Malya game when?
Congo x d
British command: “we shouldn’t give up so much land early!”
Japan: *takes a lot of land early*
Japan then go on to lose the war and commit some of the worst cases of human torture the world has seen.
@@jimdandy2024 who asked? It’s a joke dude
@@jimdandy2024 yes but this is not on japanese warcrimes
@@jacopofolin6400
Stop thumbing up your own comments.
Your reply made no sense. So please if you wish to reply, let it have some substance.
@@jimdandy2024 yeah as if the Europeans never done that before
Outstanding reporting with no sugar coating to be seen anywhere.
What is sugar coating?
@@stupidumbasshithead5715 I believe it is making a (typically) bad situation appear less serious than it actually is, by either trying to downplay it's consequences, overstating it's benefits, or both.
9:30 80years later, the bridge still stands strong in Trolak. Up until 10 years ago, the town would see veterans from both sides visiting the graves of their fallen comrades.
I was wondering, WHY up till 10 years ago...
Then realize..oh, they all.must hv been dead by now . yikes!!.
Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett, not to be confused with the expression of incredulous surprise.
Pearl harbor is a complex victory for the Japanese in its own right. But their campaign in Malaysia reminds me of the Germans in France.
Except that the French easily could have cut them off, but due to a combination of sheer incompetence, misfortune, and retarded thinking, they didn't.
Really, when you dive into it, what happened in France is SO idiotic that no comedian on earth could have come up with it.
When looking at the Malaysia campaign though, I see no point where you could say "if only guy X had done action Y."
Pearl Harbor wasn’t much of a victory for Japan
Sure they inflicted casualties but most of the ships sunk were quickly raised, and they didn’t get the carriers and didn’t even try to destroy the oil
@@jonathanwilliams1065 It was a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat.
@@kms_scharnhorst Japanese main targets were the 3 aircraft carriers, which unfortunately (to IJN) were nowhere to be found
The japanese actually looked at the germans and though we can do that too.
The lesser known disaster of allied operation during WWII.
Your use of maps and moving units is excellent and makes it easy to understand the movement of units. Could you please put a scale bar on the maps as well?
Scale bar is not as needed as using the international sistem of measurements.
all the place names are there. you can use google maps to look up details
Axis tanks, going through forest and jungles like no body's business.
True. Though, it looks to me like they were going along main roads, though.
Early type 98s are very small and can maneuver easily through the jungles. However dense jungle terrain is certainly impossible to move through
@@ken90ny yes, I always wondered why the US didn't copy these little light tanks and use them in Vietnam...So much better than those poor guys walking patrols and the point man up front getting popped off by snipers and his feet blow off by mines and booby traps.
@@mebeasensei The improvement of easily carryable anti Tank weapons made anything light and weakly armored pretty much useless.
@@mebeasensei RPG would lit them up
What should be mentioned here and is a bigger factor than just exhaustion in why the tanks could just push through is the small amount of AT weapons the Indian Brigades had. At the point the Battle of Slim River took place. The 12th Brigade had a couple of At rifles, the mines and molotovs. Thats it. That they managed to destroy any of the enemy tanks is already impressive. The Argylls batallion literally had no AT weapons at that point. Yeah they were surprised by the attack but there wasn´t much they could have done anyways.
Molotovs are great when there's no infantry support.
Jap tanks were garbage , why there was no Piats or armor piercing 50 cals, where was british armor or aircraft? ffs a brirish 2lber gun could knock out a jap tank they were not much more than an armored car.
@@Barefoot-Bob Japanese tanks at this point of the war were not exactly garbage. The Type 97 they primarily used here had a 57mm gun and was pretty fast. The armour was garbage yes but enough to stop anti tank rifles. Defintely more than an armoured car.
As for why the Brits had fuck all. Well they lost everything at Dunkirque. What they had replaced at this point and gotten sent by the US was in Europe and later North Africa. The Pacific was very low priority compared to the home islands.
@@XMysticHerox type 89 was there more common tank it had 15mm of frontal armor . any anti tank rifle would go right through it and probably out the other side. US 50 cal with AP rounds can penetrate about 33mm of armor . The m2 Stuart obsolete before ww2 could penn approx. 60mm. no the Japanese were well behind and the forces in Singapore should have been able to stop them dead cold . Unless of course it is another Waverley Cock up and they never got what they needed. which looks to be the case.
Please remember it is only my opinion and i Certainly do not impune the Heroism of our soldiers or the Britts, but the leadership in the far east was dismal at best.
Get a frag in their tracks or engine area, not an easy feat but in combat there are no simple tasks, at least jungle fighting is up close and personal for such attacks
“That’s a nice defensive position you got there, it would be a shame if it were to be flanked from the jungle”
I remember a couple years ago asking if Historigraph would do Malaya and he said he wanted to do Greece first. Here we are now, Greece-less, and he's doing Malaya, lel.
yeahhh things happen. Greece will happen eventually
It’s chilling that Japanese troops and tanks passed through the road just 100 meters away from where I stay today in northern Singapore on their way towards Bukit Timah village and the nightmare of occupation after the surrender that followed. Peace and security is so precious and hard earned.
Don’t submit to authoritarians
And by the way all socialists and communists are authoritarian
@@looinrims Almost. Communists and Fascists are all authoritarian. Some socialists are, and some capitalists. Not getting your claims right will make people doubt everything you say.
@@rikk319 sorry tell me where the USSR, GDR, Madagascar, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, DRC, Vietnam, Poland, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria are/were not authoritarian?
And what capitalist nation is? Capitalism by its nature demands the least possible interference by government to function properly
@@looinrims Those were all authoritarian countries with wannabe communism. Communism only works in small tribal sizes. Otherwise it's just cronyism.
And China hasn't been communist for decades. They have more billionaires than the US, and the most capitalist of all inventions, a stock market.
Fascism is just an extreme version of capitalism...it's authoritarian capitalism with corporations and nationalism wrapped around it.
And the capitalism of Adam Smith is a far cry from modern capitalism, where multinational corporations hold control over the political parties of multiple nations. Human beings didn't evolve to work in groups of hundreds of millions. When politicians are taking directions from lobbyists rather than the voting citizens, it's authoritarian capitalism.
@@looinrims This is such a braindead take. Plenty of capitalist nations were authoritarian. Imperial Japan for example, cold war South Korea, the ROC, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Chile, Brazil, fascist Italy, apartheid South Africa...
the 30 japanese tanks were loudly playing the Tokyo drift theme music as the cruised through the defensive lines
It'd be Eurobeat,Tokyo Drift isn't Japanese.
🎶 *DEJA VU! I'VE BEEN RIDING THIS TANK BEFORE!....* 🎶
gas gas gas
Blitzkrieg: Rice Edition
I do hope that you will cover about the battle of opium hill where a company of 42 Malay soldiers fought to the last man against the Japanese onslaught. The leader of the company Lt. Adnan bin Saidi is considered a national hero by both Malaysia and Singapore... Videos that cover the battle of Singapore often ignored this battle as if it never happened and those that does cover it are Malaysian and Singaporean vids.
Have you heard of the Tallalla brothers?
@@Alhy-ls3dv yes I have... Brave pilots
@@muhdzulkarnain428 it's sad they are not in our Sejarah text books
@@Alhy-ls3dv true
I am very interested to learn more about this! The lesser focused battles outside the European theater are so amazing and under valued.
Slim River, the place my dad gets most of his speeding tickets.
Someone should have given tickets to the speeding Japanese tanks. Lol.
True
Experience was the thing that made the Japanese so good in this campaign. People kept saying lack of this and that but its not, its all about the experience. Yamashita's troops have been blitzing through China for years at this point, a disorganized Britain will be an easy victory for em.
I'd hardly call the Chinese meatgrinder 'blitzing'.
Your experience from fighting Chinese forces is going to be completely different then fighting British forces. The equipment alone that British would be able to bring compared to the Chinese is massive the Chinese barely had any sort of heavy weaponry why the British divisions would have plenty. The reason the Japanese won was because Yamashita was an extremely skilled general and the British often underperformed on the ground throughout all of WW2......
@@101szniper North Africa was completely different. There was no adequate preparation for war generally as some poeple actually believed their own rhetoric about a 'war to end all wars'.
@@DomWeasel
Chinese forces are just well prepared to fend offJapanese attack and they have larger pool of manpower compared to British forces here.
Japanese forces need to grind every Chinese they met to even gain ground.
@@nogisonoko5409
'Well prepared'? Up to this point, many Chinese forces had to make do with whatever weapons they could get hold of, whether it was 19th century muzzle-loading rifles or even spears. That was why the Japanese banzai charge worked well against the Chinese; it often wasn't opposed by bullets.
Thanks for continuing this Malaya series.
Japanese soldiers were on bikes. You can tell by this performance they had way more energy. While British troops were on foot, scattered, having terrible sleep/rest. On top of low morale, no army can fight on low sleep constantly having to wake up and relocate.
1. Butterworth Air Base fell first because it is on the mainland along the north-south trunk road which the Japanese was advancing after their victory at Jitra.
2. There were no Japanese Special Naval Landing Force assigned to the Malayan Campaign to take the island of Penang.
So tank rush is actually a viable tactic in WW2.
Holy molly the British were simply out gunned, out flanked and out tanked by the Japanese.
Part of it was that the British had no tanks of their own in Malaya. A few Matildas would've shredded the Japanese tanks.
@@darkdill most of Britsh tanks are in African front and the war with Japanese appeared only in 1941..
Churchill dint felt that the Japanese would declare war onto them until its too late
I love this series. In depth look at a campaign I have never heard talked about.
... and yet the strategists were adamant that tanks cannot win the battle on their own.
Goodwood has proved this to be correct
actually, if you catch soldiers by surprise, most of them will end up having to crouch on the road due to machine fire. based on my red alert knowledge, this allows tanks to basically squish any number of infantry with ease. a single tank can easily take out 8000 infantry this way.
Thank you for these amazing videos!
Excellent coverage of the lead-up to Singapore, a fascinating bit of WWII history!
Ring ring to Singapore here we go!
Excellent map work. If I may, I suggest adding scales as the size of each map (campaign and tactical) can make it hard to imagine the distances involved. Thank you for the videos.
I would suggest using the international sistem of measurements.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 How will that help me discern the scale of each map?
@@brookeshenfield7156 If he where to in understandable terms say the distance between 2 cities you could then look at where they are in the map and see the scale.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 you can still use google maps. all the important place names are there
Percival’s defense plan when he was Brig General Staff called for 44 Infantry Devisions and Two tank Regiments and 350 of the moderne monoplane fighters and bombers.
Gov provided none.
Command in War, Jack Smythe VC MC.
JO
Excellent video, brilliantly told - well done!
Fantastic work, can't wait for the next one 😀
It's here! Been waiting all day.
Excellent animation (as usual). Thanks for the upload.
Ah yes, the famed Japanese "Bike Blitz" strategy.
finally the next part. Awesome work
This wasn’t even a battle holy fuck.
It is called a route.
Ah you finally made a video on this, awesome. I remember we had a discussion on your other video which I thought Mark Felton made a video on already but it was actually this.
Thanks for sharing and documenting this
Excellent series of videos concerning the Malaya Campaign of 41/42. A topic of historical significance rarely covered in tactical detail, and in such a interesting and entertaining way. I salute you.
Hey great video! I knew the situation was bad, but never knew it was THAT bad! 30 tanks caused entire brigades to dismantle. No wonder the British built the centurion soon after
The Allied has no tanks and limited A/T weapons in Malaya. In the Battle of Slim River, there were only 24 A/T mines. And insufficient planes and naval assets in the Far East. However, there was enough army personnel.
Super excellent channel. Subscribed.
It's important to note before Japanese invaded Malaya, British troops already lost so many skirmishes with Malay warlord in the thick jungle of Malaya. When the news of Japan coming to Malaya, the British already evacuated most of its citizens in Malaya to Australia.
veyr informative and entertaining!
Excellent vid :)
Please cover the Battle of Pasir Panjang! The Last Stand of the Malayan Campaign
British colony: **exists**
Japan: "uwu what's this?"
The British would get the last laugh
@@lovablesnowman no? Their entire colony is gone after ww2
@@lovablesnowman Bro what? 😂At least Tokyo is Japanese. Can you say London is British? No. 🇵🇰🇮🇳🇿🇦🇸🇸
Great series!
Amazing content
I think the Japanese use of Aggressive assault tactics would work along roads because the only units (except maybe artillery and air) involved would be the enemy in front of them. The enemy would have smaller killing grounds where they aim all their weapons. Flanking would be done well because the flanking units would be totally unseen until the last minute.
I have read some where the contact drill for a Japanese section/squad was to have 2 scouts forward followed by a machine gun team of 2 machine guns with 2 Assistant machine gunners, next would be the squad leader and the final group would be riflemen. On contact the scouts would shoot at the enemy.
The machine guns would be set up beside each other with the squad leader. The rifleman would all fix bayonets and ready themselves to move.
Once the machine guns where set up the squad leader would call the scouts who would fall back through the gun team and join the rifle team and fix bayonets. The machine guns would maintain firing. The scouts and riflemen would split into two teams and immediately conduct a double flanking attack on the enemy with the goal of conducting a bayonet charge.
This would happen without reconnaisance on the enemy beforehand because it was believed with aggression and spirit the enemy would lose. This explains the almost reckless abandon the Japanese took when they went on the attack as their default SOPs was to go into full attack.
Most armies go through a small period of reconnaissance to ascertain the enemies dispositions to work out whether to attack, hold or defend. Correct me if I am wrong as I like finding out infantry tactics of WW2 armies?
This would also mean that the Japanese would have the initiative due to not doing reconnaissance.
Thank you for the video, from a Malaysian.
and Thus ending of British Empire Colonial rule/influence for 156years on the Malay Peninsula .
Captain Francis Light (1786) - General Yamashita Tomiyuki (1942).
Within 2 decades a new nation will be born. Federation of MALAYA (1957) - MALAYSIA (1963)
God Bless everyone.
I would prefer how Japanese Imperial Forces with courageously and well determination taking Malaya rather than those disgracefully, scammers, treacherously and filthy Francis "MF" Light taking over Malaya.
Them IJA Blitzkreig the whole Malaya
Talk about incompetence in leadership and communication.
New Historigraph video, nuts will be busted
Thank you for covering this, it's always nice to see the a south east asia/pacific theater of WW2 documentary, especially when it's about the history of my country
Excellent
Finally somebody talk about how ill prepared are the British troop in Malaya
Can you do a video on capture of Meiktila please. My great grandad was attached to the 14th Army and would love to hear other perspectives on what happened :)
If you Google 'Capture of Meiktila' there are 2 men one with a bren gun, the other the rifle. One with the Bren Gun is my Great Grandad George Hillier 💙
the Japanese tanks advance was mainly only using small and paved trunk roads. Not going through thick jungle, the British had enough effective guns to destroy the tanks but as events turned out, the tanks were able to ravaged the British for the whole morning. Incredible. That spoke a lot of British fighting abilities and preparedness at the beginning of the war.
Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 30’s, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!!
Nice video
Hard fighting by the 12th Bde fwd of Kampar and some magnificent counter attacks at Kampar. All over shadowed by the Slim River debacle.
Are my kingdom for a squadron of spitfires
Funny enough I got a ad on Warpath before watching this
All the mocking of Japanese tanks tends to overlook how effective they were against infantry who had no antitank support.
I have read a book written by the Japanese tank commander who planned and organized the attack in Malaya front, but he mentioned that his unit met fierce resistance from the British forces who had some tanks and AT guns well prepared.
General Yamashita was a brilliant strategist
The idea of placing your infantry on bicycles is so simple, but nearly nobody did it. Guess they were all afraid of looking ridiculous.
In truth a lot of armies used bikes at this time, but usually as a scouting/mobile reserve within a larger formation.
The British did it at D-Day, IIRC.
Germany used them throughout the war easy transport that beat yomping it on foot.
there are multiple reasons why bikes were not mass used.
A) The Bike is heavy, vulnerable to the elements, and does not actually provide long term advantages. While you move faster with less energy for your speed, you are still using more energy for the distance traveled. This is not ideal in long campaigns are marches.
B) Not all ground units would be in a position to use bikes. Some folks just have equipment that is too heavy. A unit outpacing others is risking a lot.
C) Terrain is any wheeled tool's worst enemy, and the one folks who could aggressively use bikes being light infantry... would see their usual advantages of terrain turned against them.
D) Ambushes would be extra lethal but I doubt that is an actual factor or point, primarily the first three.
The japanese are depicted here are probably using bikes to catch up to the overextending forces, thus the light infantry is moving to support. Note, they're all sticking to the main road which is the best ideal situation. IN this case, they're using the situation that is most optimal for a bike. Catching up to a unit instead of leading the way, not in dangerous territory and thus not needing to worry of ambushes or bad terrain. And not in a long march but rather a short operation requiring speed above energy. Often times these are limited to reserve units or scouting units so they can reposition swiftly. But not actually wise or smart to build up a large stockpile of bikes only for the logistics officer to shoot themselves at all the chains they have to order whenever it rains heavily, especially not with these notable disadvantages.
@@aickavon in this campaign, I've read In a military book depicting general Yamashita, that the Japanese didn't even have enough rubber to make tires for their bicycles, and sometimes the soldiers would just have to make do with the rim alone. Staggering how tenacious the Japanese soldiers were!
Yes today is a good day!!
Reminds me of Rommels early prowess in Cyrenaica
Oh Percival,Percival,until this day Arthur is cussing in is grave ( where might that be) for trusting a chair on the round table for a knight called Percival.
Must be very embaressed by that poor choice. Poor Arthur.
good birthday present this video was, even if you didn’t know it
Is that Gordon Bennett the source of the exclamation "Gordon Bennett!"?
The British decided to give away the peninsula easily in order to strengthen their defences in Singapore island. That didn't work out well, did it?
Btw - those suggesting that the Malays were helping the Japanese didn't have their facts right. Japanese occupation led to a lot of suffering to them as well.
There was still significant support from some Malays, particularly early in the campaign. Some saw the Japanese as liberators, but obviously that was proven wrong under occupation.
There was also lots of resistance in Malaya after the invasion so yeah this is nonsense.
In the beginning yes ppl like Ibrahim Yaakob and KKM helped IJN hoping for independence.
Welp we know where it is going once IJN conquer whole Malaya
Churchill's declaration at the end there... Virtually identical to declarations made by Stalin and Hitler.
~Every year during the usual Eidulfitri celebration mad drive north from Kuala Lumpur, I always used the old federal road passing through Slim River, Bidor and Kampar..never going to see these road the same again after this (imagining Japanese tanks charging through the road from north to south)
Nice
That music though.......🤌🤌🤌
Can we get a video on the huntgen forest in ww2? Not many videos on that.
Commenting for the algorithm don’t mind me.
WW2 British Strategic summarized. European Theater lose early and wait for Soviets to rescue, Eastern Theater lose early and wait for USA to rescue. Consistent if not exactly glorious
Their tanks might be bad, but it's better than having no tanks.
British don't have tanks.
British don't have anti tank guns.
British don't have a chance.
never thought this happen at my hometown long ago..
Wow, I feel not enough credit is given to the Indians who sacrificed so many men to form these brigades.
All for a colonial empire that didn't respect them as equals :(
and..so, the job should have been done by english footsoldiers and corporals..thrown in suicide missions with no artillery support, air cover or the newest machineguns...... help me see, where is the "respect" of the ruling british politicians and commanders for these poor buggars ?
(as in; it doesNOT matter what skin color or birthplace..as a frontline soldier you are ALWAYs SCREWED...).
@@oddballsok it’s british colonial empire. So the privilege to die for it should be theirs alone. Faak the colonist bavastards.
if i remember correctly yamashita's colonel's was actually a proponent of tank development in the IJA, sadly all the steel was allocated to navy and the tank development was neglected.
The Malaya Motherland did witness when The 3rd British Punch was defeded by IJA yet merely taking watch the armslock and the captured one while them having decalethon event.
Thanks! This coming from a Malaysian
I watch these imagining how my family would have felt, who were at the time, mainly in KL and Singapore. The sense of dread, fear and impending doom as they see the news, suffer through air raids, hear the stories from terrified refugees. And hoping against hope that the mighty British Empire will save them. By this point, British propaganda would be wearing thin, and all there is left, really, is prayers.
Must have sucked being a Japanese soldier fighting your way through the jungle only to see a bunch of stern looking fellows wearing the Gurkha hats ahead of your position.
You knew it was bad days ahead.
Another great video, absent the bullshit. Thanks a lot
Well, who’s surrendering now?
We never surrendered an entire nation
@@md.tamzidislam6580 ugh, there is a lot of context missing here on why these aren‘t comparable at all.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Yes you did. You did it without a fight, surrender to the American Empire.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 There was no "American Empire" nice try.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Was and is. The American Empire is NATO, EU, NAFTA, CN, .... it does not draw itself on maps but when the call to arms is issued you will see a whole colation of imperial states invading lets say Iraq.
Haha those Japanese pelotons are amazing! Using bikes to speed up the infantry is honestly genius
As an army officer rucking (albeit light weight) for tens of miles, it always made me wonder why we don't copy the Japanese and use bicycles. We'd be there in half the time.
WOW, the Japanese Tanks deliver a Japanese Blitzkrieg in Malaysia with even more success than the Germans. This reminds me of the success of Heavy Knights and cavalry vs pro musket and recruited light infantry in Europe.
Percival should have been court martialed for utter incompetence
The Japanese just Banzai Blitz but without the Meth and Ghost Division...
you don't need meth when you have bikes.
Are you sure its Maran near to Kuala Lumpur at minute 5:59? at minute 4:56 youve shown maran is nearer to kuantan which is correct...now i've noticed there are 2 maran..lol...the one nearer to kuala lumpur should be rename to karak or bentong...not sure which one
Who would win?
One of the biggest empires in the world or some asian bois on bicycle
The defeat at Penang Island had huge repercussions. Not only were non-whites not allowed to be evacuated, the British publicly announced that everyone of all races that wanted to leave was evacuated, which infuriated the Malays and Chinese leaders who knew otherwise. The rapid retreat also allowed the Japanese to seize locally-owned boats there, giving them a sealift capacity on the west coast of Malaya that the British couldn't counter or deal with.
I'm still fabagasted, why reinforcements were not sent from Singapore to shore up the troops in Malaysia. Hindsight is great I know, but blind Freddie would have known that.. yeah I'm a foresight general . Trust me it's true then as it's true now.
Yes i suppose they need to be sent up as quick as possible ....but transport is required --- also their equipment, extra supplies & ammunition --- maybe this was still unloading from the ships ? Supply lines will take time to get established. The video always says that communications were poor or slow. Just not enough time for anything to be done.
--- Plus the British just were not really "with it" --- it was their attitude that Europeans needed a siesta each day after lunch --- to survive in the tropics
i am a malaysian. based on history, malaysia soldiers was still using a small dagger called keris, which do high damage, however is short ranged. this is the real reason why japanese won. japanese were using bicycle technology and guns. the defenders was using keris, and could be outflanked by bicycles. the war was over in 50 days simply because the defenders was using short dagger type weapon while japanese were running around them with bicycles, every time the 8000 strong army try to chase the bicycles, they simply fail cuz they too slow and melee isnt good.
The 30 tanks: LEEEEEERRROOOOOOOYYYYY