Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Japanese Tank Assault - Malaya 1942" video.

  1. Agreed but remember the terrible communications they had, the confusion and disorder was as effective against the British as anything the Japanese did; and many of the British forces had of course been trained and equipped to fight in the old first world war way, i.e. either staying put and slugging it out or moving to a new position TO carry on doing that and expecting the enemy to do the same, nothing in between
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  2. Also even had they had good leaders, good communications and had expected that kind of armoured fist-type assault they still lacked the means to counter it, their AA guns and field artillery didn't have AP shells, Boys anti-tank rifles were only effective at very close range and then only against certain parts of the tank rather than the whole thing, their armoured car's machine guns would just bounce off even the thin Japanese tank's armour plate and while what few proper anti-tank guns they did have were good and effective they needed to be in the right positions, they needed to be ready to go and there needed to be a lot more of them. The British and Commonwealth forces actually did pretty well considering the paltry hand they'd been dealt
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