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Old 12-03-2006, 09:59 AM   #4 (permalink)
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[quote=Brownag]Up until 1944 there were no British victories in Burma so the theatre was ignored apart from news about The Chindits. By '44 there were a lot more interesting things happening in Europe to keep Burma off the front pages.

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Another reason could be that there were relatively few British troops fighting in Burma.
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/pow/general_info.htm

Read this for the result of being a prisoner of the Japanese.

Most of the Aussies that were transferred from Singapore to Burma were treated miserably.

Australian POW's of the Japanese died at the rate of 36% (8051 of 22,376 died in captivity)
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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