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[51] 1 million Vietnamese were starved to death during World War II according to Thomas U. Berger. [ 52 ] 2 billion US dollars worth (1945 values) of damage, 148 million dollars of them due to destruction of industrial plants was incurred by Vietnam. 90% of heavy vehicles and motorcycles, cars and 16 tons of junks as well as railways, port ...
Seven and a half hours before the expiration of the Japanese ultimatum on 22 September, Martin and Nishihara signed an agreement authorizing the stationing of 6,000 Japanese troops in Tonkin north of the Red River, the use of four airfields in Tonkin, the right to move up to 25,000 troops through Tonkin to Yunnan and the right to move one ...
Thirty Europeans and 150 Vietnamese were killed, hundreds more injured, and not one Japanese harmed. [2] The British intelligence mission Force 136 air-dropped several Free French operatives into Indochina in early 1945. They provided detailed information on targets to British headquarters in India and China, who transmitted them to the Americans.
The First Indochina War (called the Indochina War in France and the French War in Vietnam) began after the end of World War II with the War in Vietnam (1945–1946), which acted as the precursor to the First Indochina War. The conflict officially began in 1946 and lasted until the French defeat in 1954.
Indochina Expeditionary Army – Maj. Gen. Takuma Nishimura [1] Indochina Expeditionary Infantry Group – Maj. Gen. Takeshi Sakurada 2nd Imperial Guards Infantry Regiment – Col. Kunio Osonoe
The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II. London: Portrait. ISBN 978-0-7499-5085-9. Warren, Alan (2002). Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore 1942. Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 978-1-85285-597-0. Wigmore, Lionel (1957). "Chapter 8: Invasion of Malaya". Part II: South–East Asia Conquered. Australia in ...
The Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, known as Meigō Sakusen (明号作戦, Operation Bright Moon), [5] [6] was a Japanese operation that took place on 9 March 1945, towards the end of World War II.
However, on 8 December 1941, the Japanese invaded Thailand at the same time as the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Pearl Harbor was attacked one-and-a-half hours after Malaya and Thailand were. Fighting between Japanese and Thai forces lasted only five hours before a ceasefire was agreed. Thailand would be allied with Japan until 1945.