The Road to Mandalay

The video starts off by talking about the 1927 publication The Tanaka Memorial, which set out a blueprint for world domination.

Japan had to conquer China before conquering Europe and Asia, according to the report.

1937 and Japan begins to execute the plan.

The Japanese take over city after city.

The video also shows Japanese atrocities.

China tries to use a scorched earth policy.

Refugees flee further into the interior of China.

The Burma Road.

Siam falls under control of Japan.

This allows Japan free access to invading Burma.

The city of Mandalay falls in May of 1942 and the Burma Road is effectively cut.

The British and the Burmese also use a scorched earth policy.

Axis submarines prowl near India to attack convoys.

Some footage from inside a Japanese submarine is shown.

The video talks about supplies coming to Calcutta.

A railroad hauls supplies north from Calcutta on their trip to China.

Supplies will then go to Ledo, but the Allies will have to built a road running from there to the old Burma Road in order to get the supplies the rest of the way to China. Some supplies were air-lifted, but that could only get some supplies to China; most would still need to be moved overland.

The Allied army moves into Burmese territory. The jungle foliage and rivers make moving quite difficult.

After the army comes the engineers, who are laying a fuel line through to China.

Along the way trees are cut down for lumber to build boats.

Some 2000 miles of pipeline are laid.

The Japanese are driven back, and the Ledo road connects to the old Burma road.

January, 1945, and the first convoys take the new road on their way to China. It will take them three weeks to get there.



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