Description
Mr. Sutherland-Brown talks about how the Japanese fighting tactics that were used in the Chin Hills, cost them a lot of men.
Atholl Sutherland Brown
Mr. Sutherland Brown was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1923. Mr. Sutherland was the youngest of three sons, all of whom where in the military. His father had an extensive military background, but resigned just before Hitler took power. Mr. Sutherland enlisted at the age of 16 as a private with the Piper 16th Canadian Scottish. He then finished his education at Victoria College before joining the air force at 18.
Transcript
And the Japanese, general ship in Burma was not good in comparison with other places um, because they, they got into a program of trying to take info and instead of avoiding this, the usual tactics were to avoid ah, defensive struggles and appear further up the line and ah, they didn't do that there. And so they lost the main battles in the Chin Hills where their army was decimated, well more than that. They had a third of a million people in Burma and they lost um, two thirds of those through disease and hunger as well as through activities of the army and the air force.