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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Burma 44: Imphal - The Battle Begins (Part 4)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this fourth episode, Al and James turn their attention to the Assam front and the major battle being planned by the Japanese. General Mutaguchi Renya’s aims were nothing less than the destruction of the Allies in South East Asia and the conquest of India, but General Slim’s plans were also ambitious: to destroy the Japanese 15th Army around Imphal and only then cross back into Burma. A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @‌WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:15.1

show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways Tyli Mountain shipping losses in the Pacific were beginning to turn on the Japanese.

0:36.3

And it looks like it's course and far-reaching strategic success.

0:39.7

Birt armies strung out and a vast perimeter conquest flaced stowestrangulation.

0:45.2

It was to Burma that their eyes turned hopefully.

0:48.0

It was the one place.

0:49.4

They could stay in offensive that might give them all they hoped if it succeeded the destruction

0:53.9

of the British forces in Burma was the least of its results. China, completely

0:58.5

isolated, would be driven into a separate peace. India, ripe as they thought for revolt against the British, would fall,

1:04.5

a glittering prize into their hands. They were right to thinking that Vichina Sam would

1:08.8

resound far beyond that remote jungle. I can't keep it up.

1:13.0

They were right in thinking, they were right in thinking that Victory

1:16.8

and Sam would resound far beyond that remote jungle land.

1:19.8

He sounded a lot more like that, didn't he?

1:21.8

He did. But quite softly spoken.

1:23.6

They were right in thinking that victory in a Sam would resound far beyond that remote jungle

1:27.3

land.

1:28.3

That's it.

1:29.8

It might indeed as they proclaimed in their exultations to their troops,

1:33.0

changed the hill course of the whole World War.

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