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On 19 June, Japan took advantage of the defeat of France and the impending armistice to present the Governor-General of Indochina, Georges Catroux, with a request, in fact an ultimatum, demanding the closure of all supply routes to China and the admission of a 40-man Japanese inspection team under General Issaku Nishihara. The Americans became ...
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.
Japan decided to attack in Burma and China to improve its position; these became Operation U-Go and Ichi-Go respectively. [10] Ichi-Go corresponded with a Imperial General Staff contingency plan to the loss of the Western Pacific; the plan was for securing an overland rail route through French Indochina and China for raw materials from south ...
The Indochina Expeditionary Army (印度支那派遣軍, Indoshina Hakengun) was an amphibious army corps of the Imperial Japanese Army formed on September 7, 1940 to coordinate the invasion and occupation of French Indochina during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Japan entered Indochina on September 22, 1940. An agreement was signed, and promptly violated, in which Japan promised to station no more than 6,000 troops in Indochina, and never have more than 25,000 transiting the colony. Rights were given for three airfields, with all other Japanese forces forbidden to enter Indochina without Vichy consent.
In September 1940, Japan occupied northern French Indochina, and in November, the Pacific Islands Bureau (Nan'yō Kyoku) was established by the Foreign Ministry. The events of the Pacific War from December 1941 overshadowed further development of the "Southern Expansion Doctrine", but the Greater East Asia Ministry was created in November 1942 ...
Indochina Expeditionary Tank Unit (14th Tank Regiment) ... Vichy Indo-China vs Japan, 1940 ; Sino-Japanese Air War 1937 – 1945 ; Lacroix, Eric & Wells II, Linton ...
The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 21 July 1954. [21]