The Pacific....

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Originally Posted by adampc22

what about the british forces thay were fighting the japanese there years before america joined the war in places like singapor borneo burma hong kong most of south east asia and even northern india

Sigh...has the world already forgotten the Battling Bastards of Bataan and Corregidor, who held off superior Japanese forces for over four months in 1941-42 and inflicted three times the casualties before being overrun?

The Russians actually had an earlier involvement in the Asian war that has been almost forgotten. In 1940(?), at Changkufeng and Nomonhan (high points on the Russian-Mongolian border) the Japanese Kwantung Army tangled with the Red Army, and at Nomonhan the Soviets (under the leadership of an obscure general named Georgi Zhukov) employed superior tanks and infantry tactics to kick the Japanese' ass inside out. It was the Japanese' first engagement with a modern opponent, a chance to learn and adopt their tactics...and instead they swept the whole thing under the rug.