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Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Kohima Epitaph: Britain's Forgotten Battle That Changed WW2" video.
A shame for your comment that the accusations were first made in 2007, apparently at third hand. Still, these days, such claims may be made without the need for incidental extras such as proof.
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You seem to know a lot about what 'the British' know or don't know, or, indeed, what they talk about. Nor do you seem to have read Volume IV of Churchill's History of the Second World War.' Actually, India was of greater strategic importance than Australia, largely because India was in imminent danger of invasion, something which never applied to Australia.
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@cgku Bombing raids on Darwin, indeed. But there was never the slightest threat of invasion. Put simply, it was a logistical impossibility.
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Actually, 2.5 millions joined the allied side, without any suggestion of conscription. Perhaps what had happened at Nanking alerted many to what liberation by the Japanese would really mean?
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