JAPAN SURRENDERS TO LORD LOUIS

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  • Опубликовано: 20 июл 2015
  • (24 Sep 1945) Indian and British troops return to Singapore which has been freed after three years of Japanese occupation. In this film we see some of the 200,000 prisoners who were liberated by SEAC, many were in a pitiful state of malnourishment and abuse. At the Municipal Building Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the surrender of the Japanese forces. The ceremony was followed by a Parade at which the Union Jack was unfurled to fly again over Singapore.
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Комментарии • 327

  • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
    @michaelcummingsherrera1232 3 года назад +48

    As an American, watching General MacArthur accept the Japanese surrender makes me swell with pride. However, I liked watching the Japanese surrender to General Louis even better. He made it abundantly clear to them who was really in charge, and hearing the crowd booing the Japanese as they entered and exited was priceless.

    • @abdulambola2275
      @abdulambola2275 11 месяцев назад

      I preferring the japanese empire would win ww2 and that bastard general mcarthur would surrender himself to the japanese to remind who is now the boss and natives will bown before the japanese who now claimed lordships and mastery not only in Asia but the world so yeah screw america screw their democracy trash long live japan

    • @lynlyncc
      @lynlyncc 10 месяцев назад +2

      by then, singaporeans had lost all respect for the British

    • @Stand663
      @Stand663 6 месяцев назад +2

      The actual surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore was taken, by an British Indian army Sikh officer.

  • @whatforaaron2494
    @whatforaaron2494 Год назад +11

    After watching this, as an American. It brought back the memories of all the stories my grandpa would tell me, when he served in the US Coast Guard as a Helmsman, and was stationed in Perth Australia 🇦🇺. He rescued both US and Allied Sailors, whose ships were sunk by the Japanese. ⚓️🇺🇸⚓️🇦🇺⚓️🇬🇧

  • @barbaracronin2277
    @barbaracronin2277 2 года назад +23

    OMG! that’s my Dad standing on Lord Mountbatten’s left!! He was part of the escort who took the Japanese to Changi Jail.

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      ...IF YOU SAY SO-(!)

    • @ahmedakhan1
      @ahmedakhan1 2 месяца назад

      @@daleburrell6273 Soon after the British would be leaving Asia they had brutalized for over two centuries. The Imperial Japanese Army helped bring about the collapse of European colonialism, the greatest evil in history, and the end of Western hegemony.

    • @mewhen-aaaaaaaa
      @mewhen-aaaaaaaa 2 месяца назад

      @@ahmedakhan1Funnily enough, this is what many asians thought. Until they realized they were worse.

  • @ivan78174
    @ivan78174 2 года назад +19

    The story of Indian soldiers in the British Army needs to be told more often. Over a million of them served under the banner of the Union Jack and were so instrumental in bringing about Allied victories in Burma, North Africa and Europe.

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 Год назад

      No Chance. That doesn't fit the British narrative.

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад +1

      @@kurtgodel5236 ...AND SINCE WHEN ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO SPEAK FOR ALL OF GREAT BRITAIN?!!

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 Год назад

      @@daleburrell6273 *I DON'T*

    • @jct35j
      @jct35j Год назад

      They were all called Imperial Troops, meaning troops from all countries of the then British Empire.

    • @Stand663
      @Stand663 6 месяцев назад

      @@jct35j.They were called empire troops

  • @odysseusrex5908
    @odysseusrex5908 5 лет назад +32

    That's a tidbit that never makes it into the history books, especially the part about the flag. That story deserves to be told and retold.

  • @aiman156
    @aiman156 4 года назад +25

    Nice footage of the Havilland Vampire at the start there.

  • @timrandall9479
    @timrandall9479 6 лет назад +42

    Mountbattan hated the Japanese. 5% of allied prisoners died while POWs of the Germans as opposed to 52% at the hands of the Japanese.

    • @JBigjake
      @JBigjake 5 лет назад +14

      IIRC, representatives from Japan were banned from his funeral, due to POW mistreatment.

    • @murrayaronson3753
      @murrayaronson3753 4 года назад +11

      I believe that when Emperor Hirohito visited Britain in the 1970s there was a state dinner at Buckingham Palace given by HMQ Elizabeth, Lord Mountbatten boycotted the event due to the mistreatment of the POWs. The buck did stop with Hirohito. BTW Mountbatten's first cousins were the murdered children of Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia.

    • @xapaga1
      @xapaga1 3 года назад +8

      @@murrayaronson3753 That was 1971, not '70. Actually Mountbatten (formerly Battenberg before 1917) did meet Hirohito in London in secret after the row over the Queen's state banquet, without media coverage. They had met in Tokyo back in 1922 in a cordial circumstance of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902-23, but the second and last meeting in 1971 is said to have been a cold, heartless one without a single word uttered, according to some source.

    • @xapaga1
      @xapaga1 3 года назад +4

      @Tim Hitler's handling of the British (Canadian, Australian, NZ inclusive) & American PoWs was worthy of praise, but his handling of the Soviet prisoners was even worse than the Japanese handling of Allied prisoners.

    • @pie.x
      @pie.x 3 года назад

      xapaga1 What happened at the Queen's state banquet?

  • @robgarnettjg
    @robgarnettjg 3 года назад +20

    Fun fact:
    The union flag Louis mentioned was kept safe by Lt Cyril Wild just after the British surrender of Singapore in 1942.He can also be seen carrying a white flag in a video of the British surrender.Cyril kept this flag safe through his captivity, which included a stint on the Burma Railway. As shown in the video, this very flag was hoisted at the Japanese surrender.
    After the war, Wild was promoted to Colonel and funnily enough prosecuted Japanese war criminals. He died in a plane crash in 1946. (Info credit to Calum Spencer, from videos comments ‘why this was Britain’s worst military disaster ever INTEL’)

  • @jkcarroll
    @jkcarroll 4 года назад +12

    For the record, and since I don't recall seeing any dates at the beginning of the film, this took place on 12 Sept. 1945

    • @_thecactus
      @_thecactus 3 года назад +2

      Yes, you are right. 12/09/1945.

  • @shellman5844
    @shellman5844 10 дней назад

    I was stationed at the American Embassy in Singapore in the 60’s. Met and heard many stories of locals who went through the Japanese occupation. Lived in an old British colonial house. Behind the house was an old British pillbox which was used to store gardening tools and other items.

  • @domdegood5376
    @domdegood5376 3 года назад +24

    Surrendered the city before the battle, got back the city with out a battle.

    • @StruanRobertson29
      @StruanRobertson29 2 года назад +4

      It was all for nothing...as singapore got independence.

    • @guru6831
      @guru6831 2 года назад +1

      @@StruanRobertson29 Who didnt?

    • @StruanRobertson29
      @StruanRobertson29 2 года назад +1

      @@guru6831 Gibraltar

    • @chwiow3936
      @chwiow3936 2 года назад

      @@StruanRobertson29 💀 Gibraltar wasn’t even involved in world war ii

    • @heart4740
      @heart4740 2 года назад +1

      @@chwiow3936 I'm sorry to blow your mind here, but Gibraltar isn't Spanish, it's British and was an important part of protecting the shipping that went through the strait of gibraltar

  • @qisiangng1611
    @qisiangng1611 6 лет назад +42

    Not a word of pity and concern for the colonised peoples who were abused and mistreated by the Japanese military.

    • @azzlaird5541
      @azzlaird5541 5 лет назад +9

      Why must it be highlighted? After all it wasn’t just the colonies that suffered

    • @danditto4864
      @danditto4864 5 лет назад +4

      Better than a word they sent their Father’s and Sons to rescue them at great risk to themselves.

    • @jackelinealmeida1941
      @jackelinealmeida1941 Год назад

      It's a American documentary focused on US-Japan,do you expected something about Japan war with their neighboors? This is none of western people business,first of all.

  • @jameshunter5485
    @jameshunter5485 4 года назад +21

    The British, Australians and Indians made significant contributions to the war in Asia and the Pacific. The Royal Australian Navy was a partner with the US Navy and participated throughout the war. In addition the Aussies played an important role in New Guinea both on the ground and in the air. The British and Indians fought an exhausting, grueling war against the Japanese in Southeast Asia. After the capitulation of the Axis powers in Europe the Royal Navy threw its considerable weight into the Pacific and were important players in the invasion of Okinawa. Task Force 58 as they were called, performed magnificently in holding off the Japanese in Taiwan.
    Certainly there are critics of the British surrender of 200,000 troops in Singapore at the beginning of the Pacific war, but these troops were poorly armed, cut off from supply and bereft of support from the Royal Navy. Fortunately the Commonwealth troops did not practice the Bushido code, but suffered mightily at the hands of the Japanese. These atrocities are well documented. Remember there was a similar surrender of American forces in the Philippines at the same time. This led to the infamous Bataan death march.
    Today Singapore is a self governed, prosperous nation that is one of the great success stories of the world. This is in large part because of Great Britain’s contribution.

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 3 года назад

      Please. Singapore was dead broke in the 60s. You guys are your own country because of Japan

    • @wendeqallab6656
      @wendeqallab6656 3 года назад +5

      Lord Mountbatten was not only handsome but a great man. He wanted no Japanese at his funeral and there is a reason for that. Like the Germans how could such a smart cultured people descend into madness?

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      @@wendeqallab6656 ...IT PAINS ME TO SAY IT- BUT HUMANS ALSO HAVE A VERY "DARK SIDE"!!!
      FORTUNATELY, OUR "LIGHTER SIDE" IS FAR MORE PREVALENT: OTHERWISE, WE WOULD BE EXTINCT!!!

  • @Silligk
    @Silligk 6 лет назад +24

    Jesus christ..those prisoners look like they havent had a decent meal in 3 years so they throw a pack of cigarettes at them to fight over...good old times eh

    • @turnip5359
      @turnip5359 5 лет назад +3

      A meal could possibly kill them.

    • @alrafter1593
      @alrafter1593 4 года назад +1

      Joe the craving for cigs probably did kill them later in life.

    • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
      @michaelcummingsherrera1232 3 года назад

      Did you notice they all had haircuts and were clean shaven? How did that happen? When did that happen?

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      @@michaelcummingsherrera1232 ...THAT WAS DUE TO THE JAPANESE?! ALLIED POWS IN JAPAN RECEIVED FREQUENT BATHS: THE JAPANESE ARE KNOWN FOR BEING VERY TIDY!!!

  • @GenghisKhan-Shaman
    @GenghisKhan-Shaman 5 лет назад +36

    " Booed by the crowd..." They should have been gutted and fed to the fish!

  • @kilianschattauer5625
    @kilianschattauer5625 3 года назад +12

    Miss the days when Britain was still welcomed by its colonies and dominions, when they still saw them as saviours and not hated and seen as enemies

    • @shreedharsingh6851
      @shreedharsingh6851 3 года назад +3

      That was ww2 generation , today's generation is different

    • @jimjiminyjaroo300
      @jimjiminyjaroo300 3 года назад

      When ever I visit india, as I have many times, I’m always welcomed very warmly as an Englishman.

    • @jimjiminyjaroo300
      @jimjiminyjaroo300 3 года назад

      Sri Lanka and Kashmir also. In fact, it feels like home visiting there.

    • @shairometro6276
      @shairometro6276 Год назад

      @@jimjiminyjaroo300 hy sir Iam Indian , as a member of your ex colony , I req you the recources you have taken from us , plz use it for your British empire , but you’re just giving miggration to Muslims , I see london becoming “londonistan “ plz protect your culture

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      ...NOTHING IS "FOREVER": NOT IN THIS WORLD!!!
      THE BRITISH EMPIRE WAS BOUND TO COLLAPSE- WW2 ONLY ACCELERATED THE PROCESS!!!

  • @ilovebeinagirl
    @ilovebeinagirl Месяц назад

    4:05 Uh...did he just spit on the paper before he signed it?

  • @kevinwatkins5001
    @kevinwatkins5001 4 года назад +5

    Sword is in Windsor Castle Waterloo Chamber

  • @jamesfok157
    @jamesfok157 5 лет назад +5

    Wonder where was Gen Percival during the surrender.

    • @xapaga1
      @xapaga1 3 года назад +2

      @Salam Damai You shouldn't forget that Gen MacArthur had Lt Gen Percival and Lt Gen Wainwright (who had been entrusted the surrender of the US troops in the Philippines back in 1942) stand behind him in the surrender ceremony.

  • @jinhengtan7726
    @jinhengtan7726 3 года назад +4

    World War Two and the British’s loss of its overseas Asian colonies to the Japanese occupation would leave a strong impression on the colonised populations. When British rule returned after the defeat and surrender of Japan, the colonised subjects had developed even greater consciousness about independence, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism which would lead to important postwar developments. Britain’s inability to protect them led to the harsh, difficult and brutal period of the Japanese occupation, as such the British were no longer seen as powerful as before. World War Two was a decisive factor for the end of the British Empire.

  • @vincentprincipato9234
    @vincentprincipato9234 2 года назад

    In the book Nimitz, the Joint Chiefs ( Allies) agreed to dispatch the Royal Navy to the Pacific in mid 1945. Admiral King agreed, with the proviso that the British Fleet work with and be subordinated to the huge American Pacific fleet. There was debate among the Americans the Brits were quickly trying to recover their key empire gems in Asia. Nonetheless, The Admirals worked it out and the combined fleet at Okinawa may have been more impressive than DDay Normandy.

  • @rexneticz7707
    @rexneticz7707 4 года назад +1

    how can someone record during war?

  • @leaomartinofaria1667
    @leaomartinofaria1667 Год назад

    A humilhante redenção do Japão merecido.... más hoje o Japão é outro povo muito inteligente!

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      ...THE JAPANESE WERE ALWAYS "A VERY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE"!!! HUMAN LIFE IS CHEAP IN ASIA: THAT MEANS THAT "IF YOU'RE STUPID, YOU'LL STARVE"!!!
      IT'S MORE ACCURATE TO SAY THAT THE JAPANESE ARE A "PASSIVATED PEOPLE" NOW- AND I WISH THEM SUCCESS!!!

  • @christonchua5188
    @christonchua5188 5 лет назад +11

    yet this still led to resentment against British for failing to defend Singapore and indirectly led to independence

    • @JBigjake
      @JBigjake 5 лет назад +6

      Singapore could not be defended. The wiser move would have been a hasty evacuation of military forces, to avoid hundreds of thousands of POWs. Singapore was jettisoned from Malaysia because it was too Chinese.

    • @christonchua5188
      @christonchua5188 5 лет назад +4

      @@JBigjake true, because many British troops were focused in Europe fighting Nazi Germany, and they couldn't bring enough reinforcements here. either way Singapore still would be captured and caused distrust towards the British.

    • @commando4481
      @commando4481 5 лет назад +3

      Climate C. Heretic numbers don’t mean shit 15,000 out of the 85,000 were non-combat troops the rest were inexperienced and the general was also inexperienced with no tanks no aircraft no naval support and with supplies running out please armchair general explain how Singapore could be held

    • @OneMocha1015
      @OneMocha1015 3 года назад

      @CKS1949 I would add the statistic that more tanks were sent to the USSR in two months of the breakout of war on the Eastern Front than were stationed in all of Malaya. If you were to go back in time and convince the Americans to send their forces from the Philippines to Malaya then maybe it could have been saved but thats a big if

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      @@spikefunakoshi5667 ...YOU SUMMED IT UP PRETTY WELL-!!!

  • @user-kj9pc9rf7k
    @user-kj9pc9rf7k Год назад

    Malaysia✋

  • @gatoradethe27th44
    @gatoradethe27th44 4 года назад +6

    Imagine if the Japanese surrendered to Stalin and the Communist party instead on the allies... Hirohito maybe dead... Japan is in chaos rebellions and slaughter... Hirohito have right decision to surrender in the Democratic allied forces

    • @daleburrell6273
      @daleburrell6273 Год назад

      YOU CAN BET THAT WHAT THE COMMUNISTS DID TO THE CZAR AND HIS FAMILY MEMBERS WAS NOT LOST ON HIROHITO: HE KNEW DOGGONE WELL THAT HE WAS A LOT BETTER OFF TAKING HIS CHANCES WITH THE U.S.!!!

  • @dreadnaught3894
    @dreadnaught3894 6 лет назад +6

    Ever the Showman.

    • @jackmorrison7379
      @jackmorrison7379 3 года назад +4

      Assuming you mean Lord Louis, but we Americans had General MacArthur, a prima Dona of the first order always in the camera lens and careful to get his "best side". Almost never photographed in a helmet as were all our other generals. We also had fighting showman with tanks: George Patton with his self-designed uniforms and showboating and a messiah complex. By comparison, Mountbatten is reserved and soldierly.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 3 года назад +2

      @@jackmorrison7379 Eisenhower ('best damn clerk I ever had' [MacArthur]) referred to Patton as a 'mental case'.

  • @allenwatkins4972
    @allenwatkins4972 Год назад +1

    They got theirs, in spades. Well deserved.

  • @harrycurrie9664
    @harrycurrie9664 3 года назад +2

    Don't know if the story of not having a Union Jack flag when Percival surrendered is correct ... there is a video of him and another officer carrying a white flag and the Union Jack to the surrender in 1942.

    • @IslandWork1
      @IslandWork1 2 года назад

      Percival kept the flag in his possession throughout his time as a PoW, including his time spent on the Burma Railway.

  • @justhimo2728
    @justhimo2728 2 года назад +2

    indeed it's was a great victory to these poor people of Malaysia 🇲🇾 they suffer a lot from the bad Japanese

  • @johnsonabtansg
    @johnsonabtansg Месяц назад

    Ballocks. British carried union jack and surrendered to tiger of Malaya.

  • @granskare
    @granskare 5 лет назад +2

    apparently the guns were aimed out to sea.

    • @bazd884
      @bazd884 5 лет назад +3

      If you are talking about the fall of Singapore that is incorrect. It’s more about the ammunition used. It was armor piercing which is great against ships, useless firing into the jungle. High explosive ie H.E. Is needed for that. But was in short supply at the time.

    • @brucenadeau2172
      @brucenadeau2172 3 года назад

      also singapore surrenders because the japanese catured the water tanks

  • @Noid111
    @Noid111 4 года назад +7

    Mr Cholmely-Warner doing the honours yet again.

    • @rudymatheson1415
      @rudymatheson1415 4 года назад +1

      Noid111 Cholmondeley*. It’s a bit confusing, like how Wiborne is Wymbum.

    • @rudymatheson1415
      @rudymatheson1415 3 года назад +1

      @fred brant agreed

  • @ridendumalig6814
    @ridendumalig6814 10 месяцев назад

    The japanese made the British look like Filipino highlanders or skinny igorot

  • @yongjiean9980
    @yongjiean9980 5 лет назад

    What was the flags which the children were waving at 7:20?

    • @drutalero2962
      @drutalero2962 4 года назад +2

      Chinese nationalists flags. Currently Taiwan's

  • @reaality3860
    @reaality3860 4 года назад +9

    When their honor, devotion, and work ethic is directed toward peace and prosperity we get today's 2020 Japan, which has now proven to be honorable for over 75 years. Wartime atrocities were committed by Japan during WW2, but collectively as a nation, Japan has earned the right today to stand shoulder to shoulder with any country on Earth.

    • @johnstevenson1709
      @johnstevenson1709 4 года назад +4

      But they have never acknowledged their culpability or apologized

    • @xapaga1
      @xapaga1 3 года назад +4

      @@johnstevenson1709 Utter nonsense. Japan's successive postwar governments apologised on too many occasions and paid too much reparations (thinly disguised as "economic cooperation aid" or "official development assistance") to China, South Korea and ASEAN countries. True Japan never paid reparations to the former Allied Powers, but it was as it should be dictated by San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. Otherwise Britain, France, the Netherlands and the USA (+ possibly Spain & Portugal) would have had to face the claim of colossal compensation from their former colonies.

    • @ladyofhalos
      @ladyofhalos 3 года назад +2

      nah fuck them. japan is still right wing, still whitewashes their history textbooks, shinzo abe and suga are still daydreaming of imperial japan former glory, they're STILL beefing with korea, taiwan and china over reparations, their political leaders still visit the yasukuni shrine to worship the worst of their war criminals. their people might not be responsible but their government sure as hell still is.

    • @williamadamsjap
      @williamadamsjap 2 года назад

      stop sucking up to Japan because you like anime....

    • @pemzg
      @pemzg Год назад +1

      @@xapaga1 Half truth. Japan has never apologised to India for its atrocities in Andaman. In Germany, children are taught about its past and crimes and its illegal to glorify Hitler and nazis ,nobody glorifies war criminals out there. In Japan, children are not taught about its crimes, and they shamelessly say they haven't done anything wrong and glorifies war criminals.

  • @agrbryant8887
    @agrbryant8887 3 года назад +2

    Then the communise came

  • @alienac5433
    @alienac5433 Год назад

    4:39

  • @CaptainNoch
    @CaptainNoch 6 лет назад +4

    I like how the Lord Louis Mountbatten's acceptance of surrender from the Japanese meant the end of WWII in all of South-East Asia. I am pretty sure some South-East Asian territories already enjoyed surrender a month before. Somehow the British took a month before accepting surrender.

    • @AmosNg555
      @AmosNg555 5 лет назад +3

      Thanks to the Americans

    • @bazd884
      @bazd884 5 лет назад +7

      A formal surrender took time to organize because of the vast theatre of war. Jeez man just pick up a history book!

    • @375GTB
      @375GTB 5 лет назад +1

      FAHRT!

    • @usfanlovesjiwoo1978
      @usfanlovesjiwoo1978 4 года назад

      @@AmosNg555 100% agreed!

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 4 года назад +2

      The Japanese surrendered to the Yanks. Not the brits, ffs.

  • @skchew2213
    @skchew2213 Год назад

    The Japanese soldiers were so cruel and wicked

  • @nicholashealy2980
    @nicholashealy2980 5 лет назад

    x

  • @user-xe3vd2jk9z
    @user-xe3vd2jk9z 9 месяцев назад

    Infact it was the start of british colonization

  • @ashveknair285
    @ashveknair285 2 года назад +1

    Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose once told the british empire that 'IF THE britishers ARE GONNA WIN OR LOSE THE WAR, THE DEVASTATION OF THE british empire IS CONFORMED' and later this came true because before 1955 all the countries who were colonies of Britain got independence.NETAJI SAID THIS IN 1944.

  • @michaelboylan5308
    @michaelboylan5308 5 лет назад +11

    Mountbatten says,,,,, they have been taught to look on themselves as a superior race of divine origin, Is he referring to the English? After all Louis was from the German House of Battenburg

    • @xapaga1
      @xapaga1 3 года назад

      @Michael Slightly wrong. Battenberg (not Battenburg) was translated into English in 1917 during the First World War as Mountbatten, because the German word, Berg means mountain or mount. If his former name had been Battenburg, then the English rendition should have been Battencastle.

    • @ElCid48
      @ElCid48 3 года назад

      @@xapaga1 The whole Royal family are a bunch of "jerries".

    • @thesheeplewillhavetheirsay7288
      @thesheeplewillhavetheirsay7288 2 года назад

      Comparing apples to oranges.

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 2 года назад

      He's referring to the Japanese. They were much much worse and took it much more seriously. They seriouisly believed they were a superior race of divine origin

  • @klausrain111
    @klausrain111 4 года назад +5

    Losers of Vietnam War should have been charged with war crimes.

  • @ivan78174
    @ivan78174 7 месяцев назад

    @2:47 a civilian was heard to have shouted "BAKARYO", meaning stupid or idiot of some sort, at the surrendering Japanese generals.
    Priceless.

  • @danidu85
    @danidu85 3 года назад +2

    Lol if Mountbatten didn't reference Japan every few sentences, I'd have thought he was talking about the Brits half the time

  • @hubertleuschner6383
    @hubertleuschner6383 5 лет назад +15

    This was the end of the British Empire!

    • @sinogarcon
      @sinogarcon 5 лет назад +3

      @Zip Zenac You sheesh, adults are talking.

    • @375GTB
      @375GTB 5 лет назад +1

      Nope!
      Leaving The Gulf of Aden, Malaysia and retreating back of Suez...
      1960s...
      Refusing to maintain a Real Navy!

    • @375GTB
      @375GTB 4 года назад

      FAHRT!

    • @375GTB
      @375GTB 4 года назад +1

      FAHRT!

    • @jackmorrison7379
      @jackmorrison7379 3 года назад +2

      The beginning of the end. The UK was essentially busted financially after WW II. A worldwide military presence to defend far flung colonies and dominions was out of the question as rebuilding at home took priority. Also, the FDR/Truman administrations in Washington were pushing against colonialism for several reasons. One was the justified fear that colonialism bred Communist political movements among the colonial citizens, just as we saw Stalin as our adversary not our ally. Better to get an independent native government in power favorable to the West and not the Soviets.

  • @tiohjingkai3641
    @tiohjingkai3641 5 лет назад

    lmao i tot the british they were bowing ot the jaos

  • @granskare
    @granskare 4 года назад +1

    it was US ltgeneral "vingar Joe Stilwell" who did most of the work in Burma.

    • @paulmatters2641
      @paulmatters2641 4 года назад +2

      He was a disaster. He destroyed the two best divisions of Chiang Kai-shek

    • @paulmatters2641
      @paulmatters2641 4 года назад +2

      @@MuchTooStress Stillwell was possibly the worst general of any army in WWII. Don't take my word for it. He treacherously abandoned the strategic city of Gulin, ran away and left two of the best divisions in the Nationalist Chinese army to be destroyed. General Chennault, the leader of the 'Flying Tigers" later claimed that Stilwell had deliberately ordered American forces out of Guilin as a way of creating a crisis that would force Chiang Kai shek to give up command of the Chinese Nationalist army to Stilwell. He ranks with MacArthur who was a paedophile, as the most cowardly and treacherous general in WWII. Sorry to interrupt your wet dream you American moron but Stillwell was an incompetent rat who used his political influence to get into West Point and was an appalling general.

    • @eugenemurray2940
      @eugenemurray2940 4 года назад +1

      US did fight alongside Commonwealth... not that well remembered...
      Same way Royal Navy alongside USN in Pacific...
      Look up USS Robin...

    • @doug6500
      @doug6500 4 года назад +1

      LOL!!!!????? Stillwell was utterly and reprehensibly shite. Most of the work was done by 14th Army. Fucking Septics.

  • @petersmith4202
    @petersmith4202 3 года назад

    Keeping the maps as police was disgusting they should have been made pow s

  • @pagongtagi6124
    @pagongtagi6124 6 лет назад

    7 Perkasa members disliked this video, they yelled tenno heika banzai!

  • @Voltaire8559
    @Voltaire8559 5 лет назад +7

    Well... much of what Lord Louis speech is is exactly what british and french imperialism is.

  • @freedom5093
    @freedom5093 4 года назад

    Why UK not retake back singapore

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 3 года назад +2

    I can´t understand why the prisoners were so crazy about these dangerous and unhealthy cigarettes! They were really ignorant people in those days!

    • @jimjiminyjaroo300
      @jimjiminyjaroo300 3 года назад

      Seriously?

    • @aculligan56234
      @aculligan56234 3 года назад

      Why don't you go back in time you fool and s OK ebd 3 or more tears been kicked spat at and tortured you would be gunning for a bott e if whiskey never mind a cigarette you fool

    • @wallaceb9120
      @wallaceb9120 Год назад

      L.S.M.F.T.

  • @user-lq7ps2zf2e
    @user-lq7ps2zf2e 11 месяцев назад

    Isn’t it the Americans that forced the Japanese brutes to surrender? Why are the British saying that it is them who had done so?

    • @ewangrainger2898
      @ewangrainger2898 6 месяцев назад

      Because the British Empire beat the Japanese on the main land in indo-china, Burma, Cambodia, Sumatra and so on.

  • @BDParadigm
    @BDParadigm 5 лет назад +4

    Not a "fine sight to see the british soldiers returning." By now the Singaporean's think the British were cowards.

    • @mndunkerque2497
      @mndunkerque2497 5 лет назад +2

      BDParadigm yes we thought they were cowards,but the brits stationed on Singapore were not well armed and they still had ww1 guns

    • @mndunkerque2497
      @mndunkerque2497 5 лет назад +1

      JJ Brooks I am defending them and well I wish Singapore is a British colony as Singapore is ruled by only 1 party

    • @mndunkerque2497
      @mndunkerque2497 5 лет назад +1

      JJ Brooks they had 4 squadrons

    • @commando4481
      @commando4481 5 лет назад +3

      Calab Ong true the British had planes but they were destroyed or had to leave leaving the British with no air cover but thanks for defending these brave soldiers it is widely believed they surrendered Singapore without a fight which isn’t true I wish we managed to hold Singapore since the Japanese inflicted many atrocities on the innocent people of Singapore and on POWs

    • @mndunkerque2497
      @mndunkerque2497 5 лет назад +2

      JJ Brooks I know this because I am Singaporean

  • @stuartmason155
    @stuartmason155 7 лет назад +3

    It's so easy to fake history.
    Your beliefs are not based on what you know but rather, what you YET DON'T know.
    Beliefs arise out of ignorance whereas Knowledge from awareness.

  • @user-du7ky4lu4w
    @user-du7ky4lu4w 4 года назад +2

    山下将軍に パージバルがか降伏する場面は無くなってしまったのか?

  • @g.pmoore4293
    @g.pmoore4293 3 года назад +2

    Should have been Lord Slim of Burma.

  • @deepinfo9753
    @deepinfo9753 3 года назад +1

    Japanese surrender each and every part of Japan to USA and Gorkhaas

  • @375GTB
    @375GTB 4 года назад +3

    The post war Leftist UK gov't sent 9 Roll-Royce Nene jet engines to Stalin as a GIFT!
    Supposedly hoping to get SALES of these engines to Russia.
    The engine was reverse engineered and made BIGGER, by Moscow...
    Providing a big performance JUMP from the captured German designs they had been working with..
    Directly into the Mig-15 of The Korean War..
    and subsequent Sukhoi fighter bomber designs....
    WE were lucky North American developed the F-86 Sabre
    Initially for the USN as a straight wing design...
    Then as a near supersonic USAAF P-86....
    Just in time..
    Far outperforming our P-80s, P-84s and early Navy jets...
    J.C.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 4 года назад

      They would have had trouble landing swept-wing aircraft on the straight-deck WW2 carriers because of the planes' high landing-speed compared to that of straight-wing types such as the Grumman "Panther " (which became the swept-wing "Cougar" in time for the new angle-deck carriers of the mid-'50s).

  • @mercomania
    @mercomania 3 года назад +1

    How many young boys did Louis have accompanying him on this jaunt.

    • @HighlanderNorth1
      @HighlanderNorth1 3 года назад +1

      Was Louis a groper of young kids, or as we in America refer to people like that, was Louis a "Biden"?

  • @PrinceChaloner
    @PrinceChaloner 2 года назад

    7:21 Republic of China flag...

  • @paulmatters2641
    @paulmatters2641 3 года назад +1

    The old Mountbottom

  • @kaisermuto
    @kaisermuto Год назад

    After WWII all Asian colonies could be independency from European sezurainty. Japan contributed for the chance to independent for Asian colonies.

  • @DaytonaStation
    @DaytonaStation 4 года назад +5

    Japan surrendered to out General Douglas McArthur on The Missouri, not to Luis the German

    • @JW29967
      @JW29967 4 года назад +7

      The one on the Missouri was the unconditional surrender of mainland Japan. This is the surrender of japanese control of Singapore.

    • @ElCid48
      @ElCid48 3 года назад +1

      @James Prediston Yeah, and then some Brits blew him up in his yatch. So much for being grateful.

  • @DaytonaStation
    @DaytonaStation 4 года назад +3

    We defeated (USA) the Japanese not the British. The Japanese defeated the British hence the march to Bataan

    • @commando4481
      @commando4481 4 года назад +9

      The allies defeated the Japanese which consisted of the British,Chinese,Americans,Australians,Indians and Russians please learn some history.

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 3 года назад +2

      Commando44 no, they mean that the USA did the vast majority of the fighting and winning. Same way it was the Russians that actually defeated the Germans. Please read a book and learn true history.

    • @DaytonaStation
      @DaytonaStation 3 года назад

      not true

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 3 года назад

      Dermot O'Reilly explain Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Burma, Prince of Wales ship, etc

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 3 года назад

      @British Pride you forgot to mention British losing in Singapore, Myanmar, and everything up till then

  • @donutazarausg1623
    @donutazarausg1623 8 лет назад +13

    british never fought with intergrity always cunning!

    • @binaway
      @binaway 7 лет назад +12

      War is killing. There is never integrity.

    • @crowbar4929
      @crowbar4929 7 лет назад +14

      Donutazaraus G What does that even mean? What an idiotic statement.

    • @wbwilhite
      @wbwilhite 6 лет назад +5

      British never fight fair. They use guile, lies, stealth & whatever else it takes. Victory by any means.

  • @tamasmarcuis4455
    @tamasmarcuis4455 5 лет назад +2

    In accusing the Japanese of arrogance and belief in their racial superiority the English seem to lack any self awareness. It is difficult to see what the Malays had to celebrate other than the end of war. Only the replacing of one foreign occupier with another foreign occupier.

    • @usfanlovesjiwoo1978
      @usfanlovesjiwoo1978 4 года назад +5

      Do you have any idea what the Koreans went through when Japan occupied their country. Do you?? Read about it. Their occupancy of a country is nowhere near the same as another foreign occupier. S. Korea looks pretty freaken happy now and their economy grew at record rates and they are an independent country not controlled by any foreign country. The USA would still protect them and we have a great relationship with them. We have military there yes, but we don't run the country. But not N. Korea which has no western influence at all - yeah they look real happy don't they still waiting to live in the Joseon era. Also have you been to Singapore lately, they are doing just fine. Don't make out that these countries would have been happier under Japan rule.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 4 года назад

      @@usfanlovesjiwoo1978 there is no case for colonialism. It's a one way street to benefit the mother country.

  • @inmybox100
    @inmybox100 5 лет назад +8

    One Empire of murderers , handing over to another

  • @trumbettier9252
    @trumbettier9252 6 лет назад +4

    Ha! Ha! Ha! There was more likelihood that Japan would have surrendered to Louie the Fly than to Louis Mountbatten. Japan had surrendered to the USA and its Allies on the USS Missouri 10 days before in Tokyo Bay. A day or two later, Mountbatten was told to take his ass and his ships out of the Pacific and to never return. The Pacific had become and has been ever since a USA responsibility.

    • @rapier1954
      @rapier1954 6 лет назад +3

      That about the size of it. He was the height of incompetence all around. Ordered the Dieppe raid that was a fiasco and resulted in a large number of Canadian casualties and POWs from a poorly planned raid.

    • @wbwilhite
      @wbwilhite 6 лет назад +5

      Soon, in a few decades, the USA will descend into social decay and anarchy. At that point, the only resistance to Chinese hegemony will be Japan. America will become a third world ghetto.

    • @tomlucas4890
      @tomlucas4890 5 лет назад

      Just curious , have you forgotten Korea, wake up to reality.

    • @keithbawden7940
      @keithbawden7940 5 лет назад +1

      Paul Fletcher. Well said!

    • @DaytonaStation
      @DaytonaStation 4 года назад

      I just said that also.

  • @vahshehzadeh
    @vahshehzadeh 3 года назад

    4:07-4:08 mountbatten spits over the document and signed... hahahahaha
    He was very willing to became the governer general of both india and Pakistan ... u unfortunately he was refused to accept as gov gen by us and that's why till his death he lived in phobia..
    Pakistan Zindabad ❤🇵🇰

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 2 года назад

    if only japan won midway and coral sea.

  • @chaitanyasharma812
    @chaitanyasharma812 2 года назад +4

    Shameful day for Japan 😂

  • @debaterofeverythingpresent2775
    @debaterofeverythingpresent2775 4 года назад +2

    Feeding 200,000 prisoners is one hell of a burden. Atleast Japan soldiers were not complete monsters.

  • @fbn7075
    @fbn7075 4 года назад +8

    Japan liberated ASIA from western colonies👍

    • @jameslegrand848
      @jameslegrand848 4 года назад +4

      And then curiously colonized those said nation.
      Try asking a Korean woman how the Japanese liberation felt 🙃🙃🙃

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 3 года назад +1

      James Legrand Comfort women were hired prostitutes. Most of the comfort women volunteered to do it. US investigation on the matter said as much

    • @ladyofhalos
      @ladyofhalos 3 года назад +1

      lots of japanese nazi apologists in the comments : )

    • @ladyofhalos
      @ladyofhalos 3 года назад +1

      lots of japanese nazi apologists in the comments : )

    • @lukasbauer586
      @lukasbauer586 2 года назад +1

      More like under “new management” from Western Colonies

  • @paulmatters2641
    @paulmatters2641 4 года назад +1

    Correct the title please. The name of the inbred clown of the English ruling class was LORD LOUIS MOUNTBOTTOM

    • @guru6831
      @guru6831 2 года назад +1

      No respect for the hero!

  • @shouryochakraborty6711
    @shouryochakraborty6711 4 года назад +2

    Great to see, Britishers are walking in semi nude condition.👊👊👊👊

  • @HappyFlapps
    @HappyFlapps 5 лет назад +17

    Juckin' Faps

    • @ninjastomp1
      @ninjastomp1 4 года назад

      😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣