132 - The Japanese Raid Australia and the British Raid France - WW2 - March 6, 1942 

regarding your ideas for this year, if russia gets on vaccinating people, perhaps an operation blue trip might be a big highlight. specials from all the major highlights, and a couple episodes from the desk dowstairs in the univermag

Nice

I am learning so much from this channel and the Instagram page. Thank you for all this wonderful education.

we forgive you for the slipup, good job correcting it in comments

I love your content.

Same

Every Saturday morning I get excited for 2 new history videos, one about WW2, and the second about *THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT*

It’s amazing !! It’s been a Saturday tradition for me for the last 4 years since I started with their WW1 series

Same here....2.30pm every Saturday is Indy time!

I'm not sure 'fun' is the word I would use - but, yeah ........

They will be in manipur I think? And in Andaman Nicobor islands

So who do you think will finish their speedrun first? Japan with India or Germany with the USSR?

@@MajesticOak Japan also is battling with China though, and that speedrun is still not finished for 5 years

they nearly ran out of ammunitions in Singapore, now think about the supply infrastructure in the tropic forest of Burma

@@Ultiminati they’re making some progress now though

Tojo seems to have played too much Civ to realize that lol

Which is why their capital ships were anchored there in 44-45.

You'll need enough merchant ships to ferry all that oil. If you're lucky you can ferry them all the way to Japan without being detected by enemy submarines. Edit: *Spoilers* Japan will lose a total of 8.618.109 tons of merchant shipping throughout the entire war. That's at least 2.346 merchant ships weighing 500 tons or above. These losses basically signaled the death of the Japanese Navy as an effective fighting force. There's a lot of debate that says the Japanese Navy basically ceased to exist as an effective fighting force after the Battle of Leyte, i disagree since those ships will not be able to move anyway if they don't have the fuel and with the loss of that many merchant ships the IJN is basically done for. Sure Leyte destroyed what remained of their fleet but the oil in the Dutch East Indies is the main resource to power those ships and without them they're just a hunk of metal waiting to be destroyed by American aircrafts. Source: Japanese Destroyer Captain Page 206.

@@principalityofbelka6310 that's the problem though, they don't have enough

@@PalleRasmussen What did they consider to be a capital ship in 1945? What did they have left?

Same 😂

It would be great if he did his Churchill impression when talking about how Churchill let millions of Bengals die in a famine, well not let, caused.

@@rring44 If we can laugh about a scene in Downfall, we can laugh about Indy's impersonation.

@@rring44 You beat me to it, was going to make the same comment.

@@rring44 I'm probably wasting my time, but how were the authorities to get huge amounts of extra food to Bengal after the harvest failed? The Japanese were sinking ships bringing grain from Australia faster than the Australians could build new ones. U boats were sinking ships in the Atlantic and Japanese subs were attacking merchant ships travelling between Africa and India. The few food ships that did make it from Africa to Bombay had to contend with the railways heading east being clogged with war traffic to the Burma front. Despite all that, he authorities somehow managed to get a lot of extra food to Bengal, but I doubt any logistics expert could have found all the food and transport necessary to totally relieve the famine. So unless you can describe a better way to do things given the difficulties of the time, perhaps it might be better to stop taking cheap shots at Churchill in far away London, when he had little control over the situation.

You could make a coffee table book with commentary on all the ties Indy wore through the series, I would buy that

@@narsimhas1360 Are you hearing this, Sparty and Astrid?

Cautious dress reflects careful pronunciation? But is there anything coded in there? Sartorial easter eggs like wearing accessories as commentary on the events in the episode? Someone get that man a sword-cane! No gentleman goes anywhere without his sword-cane!

Thank you Gianni, very cool

@@Karifi I think we're up to a half dozen now

Check out Vector Historia videos.

@@toastnjam7384 he hasn't made a video on Java yet

Thanks!

@@martenikaeltheroy3621 you seem more biased then them tbh. But yeah it is what it is. You can't exactly say anything that ever happened in a week in 15 minutes. If you care to teach people about dutch exploits just do it, instead of moaning.

@@martenikaeltheroy3621 merkel is probably one of the most democratic heads of state lol. Bad example. As to your problem, youtube auto-hides comments with "dangerous" words, so it's probably that.

With LORAN (USA) and OMEGA (USSR) in between.

Thanks for sharing, Lee!

As time changes, the Big E keeps getting bigger.

@@champagnegascogne9755 yup, warpdrives and all! 🤣

Hmm its unlikely we'll do an episode solely on Enterprise. We did a "bio" on Bismarck only as a special occasion: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RfCap-xE96Y.html Never say never of course and we will of course have more Naval specials to come.

"The cook was Dutch, and behaved as such"

I wasn't even looking at the screen. When I heard him say Buweetensorg I just assumed it was some sort of local name haha.

Oof😂🙈

Lmao it's not surprising that Indy can't perfectly pronounce every single town name in all of these different countries, but this one was particularly bad. Doesn't mean the show isn't great, I just think it would be improved a bit by getting the names at least somewhat close. Don't they have one or two Dutch guys working there?

Something something Doolittle... Something something Hornet...

Hmmm i wonder what the hell are they planning. The deck length of a Yorktown Class aircraft carrier is 467 feet. There is no way that a B-25 can take off from a runway that short.

Lol. A B25 taking off from a carrier? Are you on special medicines?

What are you talking about? It's absurd to even think that B25s could fly off a carrier! Those planes actually came from the magical land of Shangri-La!

Then I’m a weird ass kid.

Aaah early sat mornings anxiously waiting for another episode of gi.joe or transformers..Cup of tea on one hand and a packet of biscuits on another...took me back..thanks

@@CatsEyethePsycho Aren't we all, in a way? :D Uniqueness is a good thing. Besides, just because you watch a series about WWII as a kid doesn't make you weird. In in high school and I've been interested in WWII since I've been extremely young. So you're not the only one.

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations! Let's hope your child grows up in more peaceful times than the one we're learning about here.

Good on ya ! The sleep thing will pass,all the Best for your family,from Australia🇭🇲

Thank you everyone! :)

I great combo could be the Hustle & Indy & crew covers Dutch forces in South East Asia. Stephan is an expert on Dutch history and is very authentic when he covers it.

I'm still baffled that HOI4 still hasn't a logistics system like in HOI3.

They just need to put 30 dockyards on convoys and build a fk load (that’s the official term) of naval bombers to blow up anything that tries to sink convoys then make the convoys hug the Chinese coast

@@ryamanoI never playes HOI3 , only hoi4. What is the difference?

Well, the new patch (No step back) makes logistics the most important aspect of the game.

@@shp27493 you mean it makes transport planes the most important aspect of the game XD yeah vanilla is all kinds of wacky after NSB

Every Halder quote should be read with TIK's Halder voice.

Halder: *Inhales* TIK: X Doubt

In Australia 13 hours later

Me two.

Thank you!

Yes.

It’s called the forgotten war because it’s has been forgotten by western history. Mainly because other things happened that where the turning point of the war

I'd wager an episode from Sparty about the Indian famine isn't too far away at this point

@@ramblingrenegade6346 I doubt it. The benghal famine is far more complex than you are giving it credit for

@@lesdodoclips3915 they haven't been shy of covering complex events before. And to not cover it would be a spitting on what the whole "War Against Humanity" series is about.

Quite sure they will, but probably not until much later in the war. I don't think there's much to discuss about the royal family until late in the war.

Never say never but a specific bio is unlikely. We cover the lives of the leaders so extensively throughout our content that such a bio could only be surface-level pop history or repeating what we've already said. Hirohito is dealt with in our regular series and across our specials. He will also be dealt with within a wider context in other specials that are on the way. If you'd like to learn more about him and his role in Japan then be sure to check out these episodes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_3vPGpamtDI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GMoSwbfTfO8.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vVgCy6iwrHQ.html

The German war plan was literally cribbed from the South Park underwear gnomes - Step #1 - reach Moscow Step #2 - ????? Step #3 - PROFIT!!!!!!!

How many of those Halder quotes were written post-1945? Halder always seems to have something to say, but was he saying it at the time or years later to defend his own actions?

@@Raskolnikov70 I think both, he also blamed Rommel, Paulus and later Hitler, etc. for his failures.

We try to avoid using Halder’s revisionist post-war quotes and stay with his war diary.

Ευχαριστούμε για τα καλά σου λόγια! Μείνε δυνατός, δεν είσαι μόνος, και ο Αίαντας στην φωτογραφία προφίλ δεν είναι και το καλύτερο υπόδειγμα 😉

An important event like Heydrich's assassination will certainly get its own episode.

It will be given extensive coverage as it happens in our War Against Humanity series. In the mean you can see our bio on Heydrich here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xe_7uYtPjYg.html

@@Raskolnikov70 Shhh, no spoilers for people who don't know what Operation Anthropoid was. 😁

Thanks!

Thanks!

I'll tell him!

Thanks, Evan!

Thank you, Mikael.

+1

I'm hoping for a special on one of Alexander's Burma subordinates, Bill Slim.

@@richardgrenon3574---William Slim. Yeah I heard about him.

@@richardgrenon3574 Yeah and Operation Ugo.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony----That would be nice to see.

We have a gallery special planned later in the year where he will probably crop up. For context on what a gallery is check out the first one we did ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kzowgQCoo1s.html

Bose is considered a hero in modern India. Was a statue of Bose in New Delhi

And we’re very glad to have you as a member!

Surely the Germans would realize the disastrous consequences of being encircled and surely never let that happen again right?

What pocket? Are you saying that an entire German Army will be surrounded at some point? Prepostrous!

It is usually pointed out that the German success on this one made them overconfident at Stalingrad

Stalingrad is not even near Caucasus. It’s the same thing like to say that Copenhagen is in Alps

Also a much smaller pocket around the town of Kholm, southwest of the Demyansk one.

Yes Bose is venerated by the Indian government today. They have large statue of Bose in New Delhi

Were any of your ancestors involved in the war?

Thanks, Connor!

That's a good suggestion. It's a pretty grim time for the Allies right now, but U-boat crews later recalled it as the "Happy Time". My father was ten years old, he remembers Virginia Beach being polluted with oil from all the tankers the U-boats were sinking as they brought oil from Venezuela and the Gulf of Mexico to the industrial cities of the northeast. The whole area off the Virginia Capes and the Outer Banks of North Carolina is still littered with wrecks from that time. Many of the ships were torpedoed within sight of the shore. It too a lot of time and pressure to get the communities along the seaboard to observe wartime blackouts, and it also took some time for Admiral King, head of the US Navy, to listen to British advice and implement convoys.

Happy B-day!

Thanks, Derek!

Thank you for your kind words, we are happy you liked it!

For the time being you can watch our video on the Paulus War Games here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PpsGGtrrqMw.html

@@WorldWarTwo thank you

I get that he wanted freedom from the british and that he was isolated (for a really good reason though), but collaborating with axis powers just does not seem like a good choce. Even if he had won, Japan would have been far worse than british as an overlord as we saw in the occupied territories. Whatever his intention, his idea was flawed and anyone working with the Imperial Japanese or Nazi Germans can't be a great beloved hero. The INA soldiers did literally commit war crimes on fellow Indians and other allied people and that is what I blame them for, not for breaking loyalty to the crown. This situation is definitely not black and white, but in my opinion, he should not be the beloved hero that is celebrated, but looked upon with more criticism.

@@Sayujya09 so many of us realise that we have made wrong choices but cannot face up to it, and back down. This would have been especially difficult for Bose. And if it wasn't Bose than it would been someone else, there was lot of discontent within India and there was a militant faction which felt force is only thing that'll get British out. I've said in a previous comment Nehru & Gandhi had opposed & condemned German and Japanese aggression right through 30's. We all know what happened those two for the duration of WW2.

So I am not the only person who feels like this its good to know

Kiwi here, it took me far too long to realize you guys were talking about the Nazis! Whew!

@@ShubhamMishrabro The problem is that collaborating with the Nazis often meant collaborating with their horrific occupation policies and especially the Holocaust. Some countries (Finland comes to mind) were better than others at restricting their collaboration to resisting the Soviets. Of course Finland had the luxury of being relatively isolated from Germany and never being occupied by large numbers of German troops. As for the Japanese, you'd have to have been pretty ignorant if you lived in Asia but hadn't heard of the Nanjing Massacre by 1942. And I have to think that stories about Japanese atrocities against Asian civilians in places like Singapore must have been known to anyone who bothered to look. I think Gandhi and Nehru had it right: replacing a distant and oppressive colonial master for a closer and even more brutal one would be quite foolish.

Thank You.

We will certainly cover some basic background, we wont just throw the offensive of you guys without warning, but we're not sure if we'll have the resources to do a lot of in depth coverage. That remains to be seen.

The Germans had over 395,000 men killed on the Eastern front by the end of March 1942 and figure 3 times that number wounded.

@@caryblack5985 and its only gonna get worse for them.

Even worse. Actually Wehrmacht never fully recovered from its losses. As you will see later, Germany could only push on one section of the front from now.

@@auguststorm2037 Yep. The bleeding has begun

Until late in the war the Germans issued a killed or missing estimate on a monthly basis, although it may only have covered their ground forces (Feldheer). For many of the months up to June 1941 it was quite low but from that month onwards it was never less than 10,000 killed or missing a month, and some months were far in excess of that. For March 1942 for example the estimate was 44,900 dead and 3,600 missing. This was on all land fronts but the Eastern Front was by far the bloodiest for the Germans.

Thank you Nick

And natural rubber.

@@nickdanger3802 That is farmed rubber. Wild rubber trees still existed in the Brazilian forests, and was used by the allies in WWII. As for quinine, America used Atabrine, a manufactured replacement stating in 1943. (FYI: during the 1942 Phillipines fight, US soldiers did not use the quinine in stores, so almost 1/3 of the US soldiers were ineffective because of Malaria. Wonder if the Japanese would have had a harder time if the US soldier took his meds like he was supposed to.)

@@nickdanger3802 The U.S. began producing large quantities of synthetic rubber in 1942.

@@tommy-er6hh How much quinine did they have in Malaya, Singapore and Burma?

@@nickdanger3802 I don't know that, but here is a link to how malaria affected the Britsh Empire Soldiers during WWII: militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/131/2/85.full.pdf

Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately there is quite simply so much going on in the war that we can't possibly cover it all. The fate of the Edsall is just too specific. There will however be plenty more episodes dealing with Pacific naval warfare in general.

Australia pledged not to use weapons of mass destruction in WWII. That included the emus.

That *has* to be against The Hague or Geneva Conventions. No way world leaders would allow that hell to unleash upon unsuspecting belligerents

Ch. 6 Section 11. ss D(4). "The use of emus is strictly prohibited in a theatre of war against either enemy combatants or civilians." Well, gentlemen, that settles it. We cannot use emus. So we'll use cassowaries.

@@garcalej Or send in the Roo,s

@@georgepantazis141 The Kangas are not reliable. Plus I think they're all pacifists now or some shit.

Thanks! We aim to please.

1 March 1942 Indian Ocean : US Navy oiler USS Pecos were sunk off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean by Japanese carrier aircraft. While en route to rescue survivors of Pecos, which included survivors of USS Langley , American destroyer USS Edsall was intercepted by Japanese battleships Hiei and Kirishima and sunk at 1731 hours by Japanese gunfire ; 147 were killed, 6 survived and were captured. ABDA naval command was disbanded after the defeats at the Java Sea region. Burma : In the face of defeats in Burma , General Archibald Wavell commander in chief of India , replaced Major General John Smyth with Major General David Cowan and demoted General Thomas Hutton to be the chief of staff of Cowan. Gilbert Islands , South West Pacific : The 9,260-ton American passenger ship SS President Polk was being used as a troopship when sunk by Japanese aircraft at Canton Island, Gilbert Islands. The ship was later raised and re-entered service. Dutch East Indies : While Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and her escorts destroyer HMS Encounter and American destroyer USS Pope were trying to escape to Ceylon, they were intercepted by four heavy Japanese cruisers (Haguro , Nachi , Ashigira and Myoko ) and five Japanese destroyers in Bali Strait. In the resulting engagement known as Second Battle of Java Sea ,HMS Exeter which was already damaged and in slow speed due to battle damage in First Battle of Java Sea , HMS Encounter and USS Pope all three Allied ships were sunk by gunfire and torpedoes of Japanese cruisers and destroyers. Over 400 crewmen were killed and 800 were picked up and captured by Japanese vessels After this engagement , in a through sweep in Java Sea , Japanese warships sank six Dutch and British cargo and transport ships (Rooseboom, Pariji, Modjokerto, and three others) and two Royal Navy minesweepers escaping from Java between Dutch East Indies and Australia. Four remaining US destroyers in Java Sea (USS John Edwards , USS Alden , USS John Ford and USS Paul Jones) sailed away from Surabaya, Java , passed through shallow Eastern Strait and managed to evade Japanese pursuers and managed to arrive Freemantle , Australia on March 2nd. Last Allied naval vessel Dutch destroyer HNLMS Witte de Vith was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft in Surabaya , Java. Remaining seven Dutch cargo and transport ships and two Dutch minesweepers were scuttled at Surabaya and Batavia harbours to prevent their capture by Japanese American destroyer USS Perch was located , depth charged and badly damaged by Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze but managed to evade her pursuer Also on this date, Japanese troops landed on Java and immediately began marching for Batavia, with the Japanese 2nd Division capturing Serang and the 230th Infantry Regiment capturing Kalidjati airfield at Soebang en route. Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea : The first four of No. 75 Squadron RAAF’s Kittyhawk fighters arrived at Port Moresby, Australian Papua. Two of them would see combat later on the same day, with Flight Officer Barry Cox and Flight Officer Wilbur Wackett shooting down one Ki-21 bomber flying a reconnaissance mission over Port Moresby. California and Washington State , USA : The US authorities rounded up 112,000 Americans of Japanese descent and moved them to inland camps well away from the Pacific coast. Atlantic Ocean : The 9,551-ton Norwegian motor tanker Finnanger, since 1941 in British Admiralty service as a Royal Fleet Auxiliary, was torpedoed and shelled by German submarine U-158 (Kapitänleutnant Erwin Rostin) and sank southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Finnanger returned fire and fought a courageous fight, but the crew had to abandon the ship. U-158 shelled the ship until she sank. Nothing was ever heard of the 39 crew on board. Norwegian ranker Charles Ricine was torpedoed and sunkby Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi in Atlantic Ocean ,all her crew were rescued by American destroyer USS Moffat The 4,890-ton British steamship Carperby, carrying 2,009 tons of coal and 3,262 tons of coke, was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-588 (Kapitänleutnant Victor Vogel) about 420 miles south of Newfoundland. None of her complement of 40 survived. In exchange , German submarine U-656 was located , depth charged and sunk on the surface by a Hudson patrol bomber of US Navy VP-82 squadron 33 miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland, killing all 45 aboard. NOTE : This is the first U-Boat kill of US Armed Forces during the war. Arctic Sea : Allied convoy PQ-12 departed Reykjavík, Iceland inbound to Murmansk, Kola Peninsula USSR and convoy QP-8 departed Murmansk, Russia. The Soviet trawler RT-19 Komintern, built in 1930, while fishing off the Gusinaia Banka, Berrants Sea, was most probably torpedoed by German submarine U-436 (Kapitänleutnant Günther Seibicke) and sunk, northeast of Cape Teriberskij, Russia. Black Sea : The 3,356-ton Soviet cargo ship (training) Chapaev struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea off Sevastapol, Russia. Between 86 and 120 crew lost their lives. Crimea , Ukraine : Soviet 51st Army launched its offensive from Kerch Peninsula against 17th German Army towards Sevastapol. German forces are expecting the attack and repulsed it. Leningrad , USSR : Rations are cut down in besieged city and more than 300.000 able bodied civilians are organised to bury bodies and clean up rubble and repair the damage of German air and artillery bombings by Soviet authorities. A small flotilla is being organised to transport supplies from Tikhvin across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad after thaw sets in. Mediterranean Sea : The 5,417-ton French cargo ship PLM-20 was torpedoed and sunk by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Unbeaten, five nautical miles east of Mehedia, Tunisia. She had sailed from Sfax in Tunisia in a convoy, on passage from Sfax to Bizerta with a cargo of phosphates Italian auxilary cruiser Egitto struck a British mine and sank off Taranto , 77 from her 340 crew members died

2 March 1942 Atlantic Ocean : The 2,362-ton Norwegian merchant steamer Gunny loaded with 3,100 tons of manganese ore and mahogany was 400 miles south of the Bermudas when she was torpedoed amd sunk by German submarine U-126 (Kapitänleutnant Ernst Bauer) at 2047 hours. Minsk , Belarussia : SS Einstazgruppen Special Execution squads shot and killed 5.000 Jews within three days Mediterranean Sea : By using her deck gun , Royal Navy submarine HMS Turbulent shelled and sank three Geman manned Greek cargo ships Apostoles , Chariklia and Evangelistria on the surface in Aegean Sea. 33 German troops and naval personnel aboard were killed Italy : 16 British RAF Wellington bombers from Malta attacked Palermo, Sicily, Italy, hitting and destroying Italian ammunition ship Cuma with bomb hits, whose explosion damaged five Italian warships and eightItalian and German freighters nearby. Tokyo , Japan : Japanese Navy Minister Admiral Shimada removed previously recognized rules of engagements in naval warfare due to “Allied retaliation and hatred”. Burma : Japanese 33rd and 55th Infantry Divisions crossed Sittang River at Kunzeik and Donzayit, Burma, forcing the British 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment to fall back 20 miles as the Japanese troops captured the village of Waw. Dutch East Indies : Japanese troops advancing toward Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies were halted by Australian troops at Leuwiliang. At Soebang, 250 Dutch troops with 20 tanks attacked Kalidjati airfield, but the attack was repulsed. East of Batavia, Japanese troops captured the oilfields at Tjepoe (now Cepu). As the Japanese troops approached, the Dutch colonial government relocated to Bandoeng, US personnel began evacuation by aircraft, and the Dutch Navy continued to scuttle destroyers, submarines, minesweepers, and other warships at Surabaya to prevent capture. American destroyer USS Stewart was bombed and badly damaged by Japanese aircraft then scuttled by her crew in Surabaya , Java. Dutch Commander in Chief Conrad Helfrich escaped Java, Dutch East Indies by Catalina aircraft. American submarine USS Sailfish torpedoed and sank Japanese transport Kamogawa Maru east of Bali in the Lombok Strait in the Dutch East Indies at 2100 hours, killing 326. Indian Ocean : Japanese heavy cruiser Maya, destroyer Arashi, and destroyer Nowaki intercepted and sank Royal Navy destroyer HMS Stronghold by gunfire in the Indian Ocean at 1900 hours, killing 75. Japanese heavy cruisers Takao and Atago intercepted and sank US destroyer USS Pillsbury by gunfire 500 miles south of Java, Dutch East Indies at 2100 hours, all 173 aboard were killed.

3 March 1942 Java Sea : After surving Japanese depth charge attack two days ago and then making emergency repairs , US submarine , USS Perch attempted to make a test dive, but it failed without almost disastrous results. As repairs continued, she was discovered by two Japanese cruisers and three Japanese destroyers. Commanding officer David A. Hurt gave the abandon ship order, sinking the ship and giving up himself and his crew, totaling 59 men, to the Japanese. Japanese destroyers Arashi and Nowaki sank US gunboat USS Asheville south of Java, Dutch East Indies, killing all 170 aboard by machine gunning the survivors in the water Indian Ocean : Dutch cargo ship Siantar was torpedoed and sunk in west of Shark Bay , Australia byJapanese submarine I-1 Dutch East Indies : Australian troops continued to hold against Japanese attacks at Leuwiliang west of Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies. In eastern Java, Japanese captured Bojonegoro. Broome , Australia : In Western Australia, , 9 Japanese Zero fighters from Koepang, Timor, Dutch East Indies attacked the flying boat anchorage at Roebuck Bay (destroying 15 flying boats) and the airfield at Broome (destroying 5 bombers and 2 transport aircraft; one of the transports shot down at Broome, a DC-3 airliner carrying evacuees from Java, Dutch East Indies, crashed into the jungle 50 miles north of the city, destroying its cargo of £150,000-£300,000 worth of diamonds. 70 people killed in Broome. Only 1 Japanese Zero fighter was lost during the attack. Rabaul , New Britain : At Rabaul, New Britain, the Japanese South Seas Force began embarking transports Yokohama Maru and China Maru, while the Maizaru 2nd Special Naval Landing Force began embarking transports Kongo Maru, Tenyo Maru, and Kokai Maru for the invasion of Lae and Salamaua in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Burma : General Joseph Stilwell met with Chiang Kaishek in Lashio, Burma. At the conclusion of the meeting Stilwell officially assumed the title of Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander of the China Theater and Commanding General of US Army Forces in the China Theater of Operation, Burma, and India. Japanese troops forced Indian 17th Infantry Division out of Payagyi, Burma. Washington , USA : Combined Chiefs of Staff approved the division of Western Pacific into two zones, with Burma and all Southeast Asia west of Java-Sumatra border under the command of British General Archibald Wavell, and areas to the east under the command of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Atlantic Ocean : German submarine U-129 torpedoed and sank US transport ship Mary 165 miles north of Dutch Suriname in the Atlantic Ocean at 1705 hours; 1 was killed, 33 survived. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, German submarine U-68 torpedoed and sank British cargo ship Helenus 86 miles west of Monrovia, Liberia at 1721 hours; 6 were killed, 76 survived. Arctic Ocean : Soviet cargoship Kiev fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 in poor weather. English Channel : German cargo ships Abbeville and Jean et Jacques were both torpedoed and sunk by Royal Navy motor torpedoboats MTB 31 and MTB 34 off Calais. Billancourt , Paris , France : RAF Bomber Command under new leadershipof Air Marshal Arthur Harris started mass scale area bombing operations. Total of 224 RAF bomber aircraft took of in the night and bombed the Renault automobile plant and industrial area (which produces spare parts and tires for German Army) in Billancourt , near Paris, France. This raid is notable for start of RAF’s Area Bombing tactics. First pathfinder aircraft marked the target area with flares then the bomber force hit the target area illuminated with flares , in three attack waves and devastating the area with explosive and incendiary bombs. There was no German AA guns or any other air defence in the area. Most of the targeted factories and industrial plants in the target area were destroyed. Although German propaganda would make much from 367 French civilians died and 9.000 became homeless in this attack , a French informer in German pay reported, disparagingly, to the military authorities: ‘In general, if the pulse of public opinion is taken, indignation is not widespread enough.’ On the following day a German guard was shot dead by Resistance in a Paris street. Twenty French Communists were at once shot in reprisal. ‘That’s the method I proposed,’ Dr Goebbels noted in his diary, and he added: ‘If rigorously applied it will lead to visible results.’ Meanwhile four engine RAF Avro Lancaster bomber made its debut mining the harbor at Brest, France. Mediterranean Sea : By using her deck gun Royal Navy submarine HMS Turbulent shelled and sunk two caiques carrying German troops to Crete in Aegean Sea. Chelmno , Poland : An estimated 3.200 Jews were gassed in Chelmno death camp

4 March 1942 Marcus Island , Central Pacific : US Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise launched aircraft against Japanese occupied Marcus Island. Cruisers USS Salt Lake City and USS Northampton shelled Marcus Island. US Navy submarine USS Grampus torpedoed and sank Japanese tanker Kaijo Maru in the Pacific Ocean, killing all 90 aboard. US Navy submarine USS Narwhal sank Japanese Army cargo ship Taki Maru 200 miles south of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese cargo ship Moriaka Maru struck a mine and sank off Nakadori Island , Japan. Burma : General Harold Alexander arrived in Burma. In Burma, Japanese troops enveloped Chinese troops at Toungoo while British 7th Queen’s Own Hussars regiment clashed with Japanese troops at Pegu. Dutch East Indies : All Dutch troops evacuated Batavia and Leuwiliang, Java, Dutch East Indies after sundown for Bandoeng 70 miles to the southeast. US submarine USS S-39 (SS-144; Lieutenant J. W. Coe) torpedoed and damaged Japanese fleet oiler Erimo south of Belitung Island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. Erimo’s commanding officer, Captain Soma, beached Erimo on Bali Island to prevent sinking. Japanese light cruiser Yura rescued survivors, but four crewmen were lost. Erimo was abandoned as a constructive total loss. Indian Ocean : The 865-ton Dutch steam merchant Merkus en route to Bombay, India from Tjilatjap, Java, Dutch East Indies, was attacked and sunk by gunfire by the Japanese submarine I-7 in the Indian Ocean close to the Cocos Islands. The crew of the Merkus would reach Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. I-7 then went on to torpedo and sink another Dutch vessel, the 3,271-ton passenger vessel Le Maire. Java Sea : Australian sloop HMAS Yarra was shelled and sunk by Japanese heavy cruisers Arashi , Atago , Maya , Nowaki in 300 miles south of Java, Dutch East Indies at 0800 hours whilst attempting to protect a convoy of vessels withdrawing to Australia; 158 were killed, 13 survived. The other three ships in the small convoy (minesweeper MMS-51, Dutch depot ship Anking, and Dutch tanker Francol) were sunk during the same attack. Dutch cargo ship Enganno escaping to Australia was bombed and sunk by Japanese floatplane from heavy cruiser Takao Dutch cargo ship was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft off Java Dutch cargoship Manipi was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank off Java Malaya : Japanese killed 300 civilians, mostly ethnic Chinese, in Geland Patah, Johor in Malaya. Atlantic Ocean : The 6,675-ton British steam merchant Frumenton, carrying 10,393 tons of wheat, struck a mine eleven miles east of Great Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom and sank whilst on passage from St John’s to London. Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Sheffield (Captain A. W. Clarke, RN) struck a mine off Iceland. She would be under repair until July 1942. Baranowicze , Belarussia : 3.000 Russian Jews were massacred by SS Einsatzgruppen

5 March 1942 Arctic Ocean : German battleship Tirpitz, escorted by destroyers, departed from North Cape for the Arctic Ocean first time to intercept Allied convoys in Operation Sportpalast. Atlantic Ocean : German submarine U-404 torpedoed and sank US cargo ship Collamer straggled behind her convoy HX-178 off Nova Scotia, Canada at 1135 hours. Later that day, German submarine U-126 torpedoed and sank US cargo ship Mariana 30 miles north of the Turks and Caicos Islands east of Cuba at 2244 hours, killing all 36 aboard. The Norwegian motor tanker O. A. Knudsen of 11,007 tons full of petrol and fuel oil was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-128 (Kapitänleutnant Ulrich Heyse) at 1533 hours when sailing east of Abaco Island, Bahamas. Finally, at 2307 hours on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone, British West Africa, German submarine U-505 torpedoed and sank British cargo ship Benmohr; all 56 aboard survived. Mediterranean Sea : Royal Navy submarine HMS Thorn sank Italian auxiliary patrol vessel AS91/Ottavia with gunfire from her deck gun off Kefalonia island, Greece. Royal Navy submarine HMS Uproar torpedoed and sank Italian merchant ship Marin Sanudo 18 miles west of Lampedusa island, Italy; Italian torpedo boats Cigno and Procione counterattacked with depth charges but HMS Uproar managed to evade them and escape. Royal Navy submarine HMS Torbay torpedoed and sank Italian merchant ship Maddalena G. in the harbor at Corfu, Greece at 0730 hours. Fedoshia , Crimea : In the Crimean town of Feodosiya, beginning on March 5, three anti-partisan sweeps by SS and German Army within three weeks led to the killing of more than two thousand people, of whom, according to Operational Situation Report No. 184, ‘678 were Jews, 359 Communist officials, 153 partisans, and 810 asocial elements, Gypsies, mentally ill, and saboteurs’. Rabaul , New Britain : Japanese troop transports Yokohama Maru, China Maru, Kongo Maru, Tenyo Maru, and Kokai Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands for New Guinea; the transports were escorted by six cruisers and eight destroyers. Dutch East Indies : Japanese 2nd Division captured Batavia on the island of Java, the capital of Dutch East Indies. Local Dutch announced the evacuation of Batavia; Java could no longer be held against the sustained Japanese attack. Dutch repair ship Barentz and Dutcxh cargo ship Tohiti along with four more smaller Dutch vessels were either bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk or scuttled by their crews in Tijiatab , Java. Pacific Ocean : USS Grayback torpedoed and sank a Japanese transport and an escort vessel in the Philippine Sea off Guam, Mariana Islands , hitting them with 2 of 3 torpedoes. American submarine USS Grampus torpedoed and sank Japanese fleet oiler Kaiju Maru off Truk , Marshall Islands Philippines : Japanese cargoship Takao Maru was bombed by B-17s of USAAF and beached on Luzon ( later destroyed by Philippine guerillas ) Rangoon , Burma : Evacuation of Rangoon starts amid a huge chaos , arson and looting in the city. Meanwhile Japanese forces from vanguard of 15th Army entered Pegu, a mere forty miles from Rangoon.

He stumbled on Tjoepu (Cepu) as well

Because he probably is.

@@EmperorEdu I thought it was more the Germans who were as high as a kite during the war.

@@SampoPaalanen Happened on all sides pretty sure.

@@SampoPaalanen this is such a meme history take, i'm tired of seeing it everywhere.

@@RedbadofFrisia It was true though from what I've read it was really only Germans and Soviets that instituted any significant drug distribution programs, the rest not so much, that isn't to say they objected to it on moral grounds but rather saw the side-effects as too big of a negative compared to the benefits. Also Hitler was high pretty much 24/7 on a cocktail of drugs that should have killed him (not that he was a paragon of sanity before his quack of a doctor put him on those drugs).