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And who were the allies supporting?
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Nationalist China, the Kuomantang, aka the facists.
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Sir, how many men did China commit to European theatre? how many to African theatre? how many to Middle East? And that military commitment only became possible because of allies supplying the resources to China;
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Only 1941 afterwards. The Sino-Japanese War started in 1931.
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heck India was the major base from where China was getting supplied from... You cannot possibly compare that to an army which played a role in pretty much every operational theatre in world war 2. China's war was a "War of Resistance" and without foriegn assistance, China would've been slaughtered.
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China was being slaughtered, both with and without foreign assistance but they held and at times on their own. The resupply only occurred after the British Indian Army clear their side and the Chinese re-openned the Burma Road. The Japanese were in China for 10 years before Pearl Harbour and they still did not manage to knock China out.
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Lt. Col. SPP Thorat, 2/2 Punjab; Lt. Col. L.P. Sen, 16/10 Baluch; Brigader R.A. Hutton, Commander 51 Brigade; and Lt. Col. K.S. Thimayya, 8/19 Hyderabad. All three battalion commanders earned the DSO [Distinguished Service Order] for their performance in Burma. Not to mention 31 Victoria Crosses for the RIA.
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Good names, thank you. Anything on brigade level and up? Strategic thinkers? There has to be.
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Yup, and the British Indian Army was deployed in all of those operational theatres. I don't know why it is compared with China, they were fighting a war at their own front, fighting for their own survival, on top of that, India was the major supplying base to China.
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The person who did the comparison was Northface and the military commitement is still dwarfed by China's. And the entire reason why the Pacific War was fought in the 1st place is over China. The West slapped an embargo on Japan over their actions in China, resulting in Japan's attacks against the Allies. So, to state that China was not part of WWII victors ignores historic facts.
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I don't agree. Chinese fought in one theatre only, their own home ground. Indian Army fought in every theatre from Europe, to Africa, to the Pacific.
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And very well at that but again, you're missing the point. As well as the Indians fought, they were not going to defeat either Germany nor Japan. They were not fighting the decisive theatres. China was a decisive theatre. Which do you think hold more importance to the Japanese: holding China or taking India?
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Ok, so the Chinese acted like a decoy?
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More like a tar pit. The IJA in China was not going anywhere.
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Sir, I ask you, if you believe that China did FAR more then India because they conscripted soldiers and poured them against the Japs; then I guess by the same token, you will say that the Soviets did FAR more then all the other allies in the European theatre?
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Of course they did. Mimimum 15 million military dead alone tells you how much they did. Not even M21Sniper is arguing that point. There is absolutely no question the Soviets did the majority of the killing and dying in the ETO. We did our share but pales in comparison in the amount of money, material, and men the Soviets burned to kill the Nazis.