Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1.  @rhysgoodman7628  Never seen any. The British are the best jungle fighters in the world. They teach jungle warfare to nations who have jungles.
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  2.  @rhysgoodman7628  The British were key in WW2.
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  3. Read about the Battle of Kohima and Imphal. The Japanese took in 80,000, retreating with 20,000. Hand to hand jungle fighting with the British that made Iwo Jima look like a bar brawl. It was the largest ever Japanese defeat up to that point.
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  4. Cheap at the price, for what it bought.
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  5. The British did not abandon their colonies in SE Asia. They retreated to India and regrouped.
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  6. Quick drying cement.
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  7.  @andrewcree3667  HMS Victorious was a secret mission, even painting the ship US navy grey and using US markings on the planes. No wonder few had heard of Victorious giving vital aid to the US Pacific fleet - the US was down to one carrier. The US requested two carriers. The British declined as the Germans and Italians were both building aircraft carriers, so they had to be ready when completed.
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  8. That ship was not in the British Pacific Fleet.
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  9. :(
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  10.  @absjones2916  Singapore also recruits Gurkhas.
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  11. By the comments it is clear many Americans never knew of the extensive British involvement against the Japanese. Some less known facts about British involvement, and lack of US involvement into 1943. 1) Apart from the US Filipino forces that surrendered in early 1942, the US only had a couple of divisions in Gaudalcanal after August 1942, and one in New Guinea by November 1942. 2) In 1943 the US managed to get up to six divisions in the Pacific, but still not matching the British or British Indian armies respectively. 3) Until late 1943 the Australian Army alone deployed more ground fighting troops against the Japanese than the USA, after the USA was in the war for nearly two years. 4) The Americans never put more ground troops into combat against the Japanese at any point than just the British Indian Army alone, which was 2.6 million strong. The US had nowhere near 2.6 million men on the ground against the Japanese. 5) The Soviets fielded about a million against the Japanese. 6) Most Japanese troops were put out of action by the British and Soviets, not the USA. 7) At the battles of Kohima and Imphal the Japanese against the British suffered their worst defeat in their history up to that point. 60,000 casualties in hand to hand jungle fighting. 8) The British Pacific Fleet. 9) The Eastern Fleet. 10) RAF Lancasters were ready to drop the A-Bomb, however the US managed to adapt an unreliable US plane to drop it. 11) Thousands of Lancasters were being readied to be based in Okinawa to bomb Japan.
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  12.  @johnlucas8479  "a strong feeling that the offensive against Japan was not a British War." I do not know where he got that from.
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  13.  @johnlucas8479  Numbers 1) to 5) were small things. The British Pacific Fleet was a whole powerful fleet. HMS Victorious was a secret mission, even painting the ship US navy grey and using US markings on the planes. No wonder few had heard of Victorious giving vital aid to the US Pacific fleet - the US was down to one carrier. The US requested two carriers. The British declined as the Germans and Italians were both building aircraft carriers, so they had to be ready when completed. The British Pacific Fleet assisted US ground troops on Okinawa. The British ships could operate close to shore which US ships could not. The carrier USS Hancock was hit off Okinawa having to pull out, sailing back to Pearl Harbor for repairs. The British ships just went on and on. Their contribution is rarely mentioned in US books or documentaries.
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  14.  @johnlucas8479  The Black Lancasters were adapted and prepared to drop the A-bomb. They were first choice with the first in-flight refueling developed for them. For nationalistic reasons the US spent a fortune converting the unsuitable, and unreliable, B-29 to drop the A-bomb. The B-29, that dropped the second A-bomb had problems, having to be diverted to Okinawa instead of returning to Tinian after dropping the bomb. It landed running on fumes. The allied air forces that operated in Europe were to be transferred to operate against Japan. That would be a total of around 15,000 planes. The RAF were to operate from Okinawa. The bases were being prepared, with the planes made ready to transport to Okinawa. Mosquitos had been prepared and tested to drop bouncing bombs against Japanese battleships, being launched off carriers.
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  15.  @johnlucas8479  "The B-29 used by RAF from 1950 to 1954 as Washington B1" The British had started R&D on the Canberra jet bomber as the war was ending. The US were eager to see the end results. Being impressed they used them, building them under license, calling it the Martin B-57. The US loaned the used B-29s to the RAF as a Soviet threat emerged, until the Canberra was in service. They were given back and scrapped.
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  16.  @rhysgoodman7628  Or NYC.
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  17.  @Elthenar  The US supplied ~11% of British supplies in WW2, mainly raw materials, which they did prior to WW2, and machine tools - British War production by Poston, 1952. 11% is hardly staggering. The Australians had more boots on the ground than the USA until very late in 1943. The British and Soviets dwarfed the US soldiers in numbers. 2.6 million in the British Indian Army alone. The US operation against the Japanese was mainly a naval operation.
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  18.  @trueaussie9230  Probably the Brits training them
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  19.  @A190xx  Which resistance as they were so many factions?
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  20.  @michealrcnicholson9342  Show me in modern times?
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  21. Consistent prodding from Britain started the Iraq war?  What a dork!
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