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Mr. Sutherland-Brown explains how the Japanese just could not supply their troops.
Transcription
Our main operational um, job was ah, to interdict supplies and we did that very effectively. The Burma, Bangkok railway never delivered the freight it was supposed to, partly, it was engineering problems on their part. But it only delivered about a third of the freight expected and the Japanese were starved of supplies the whole war. In fact, strategically looking at it from our point of view or theirs it was crazy for them to have their offensive in 1944 because they just couldn't supply their troops. They starved to death. They died of disease as well as being ah, thoroughly beaten in the Chin Hills. Their strategy depended on capturing in fall, the Chin Hill base with British supplies in it and they couldn't do it.