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- 29. VJ Day SpecialIn our VJ Day Special Rob was joined by guest Lucy Betteridge Dyson to discuss remembering the men of the Burma Campaign. Jack was unable to join due to a family emergency.
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57 min - 28. Series 3 Finale: Listeners' Questions!In our Series 3 finale we finish with our traditional episode of listener's questions. From doctrinal differences between 8 and 14 Armies, to casting choices for a Burma Campaign Band of Brothers.
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1 hr 7 min - 27. What to do about Burma?In the penultimate episode of our 1943 series Jack and Rob ask the question - what to do about Burma? What is the situation at the end of 1943, and what is the strategy for the 1944?
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1 hr 17 min - 26. 1943 ReflectionsThis week Jack and Rob look back on the last series, from the 1942 mop-up episodes to our most recent eyewitness accounts, with a few teasers for next series. Fear not dear listeners, because there are still two more episodes of this series left!
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1 hr 15 min - 25. Chindit VoicesThis week Jack and Rob look at a series of eyewitness accounts about the first Chindit expedition - Operation Longcloth.
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1 hr 5 min - 24. Witnesses to Tragedy: Tanks at DonkbaikThis week Jack and Rob are back to some eyewitness accounts - this time the Valentines Tank Massacre on 1 February 1943 at Donbaik. This is a fascinating one as the accounts are all from the after action report found in the 146 Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps' war diary - held in The National Archives, Kew, ref. W)172/2261.
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1 hr 4 min - 23. A US Marvel - The Ledo RoadJack and Rob get into the detail of the Ledo Road - later called the Stilwell Road - one of the greatest engineering marvels in history, undertaken by the USA to support China.
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1 hr 2 min - 22. The Hump AirliftJack and Rob are joined by Caroline Alexander, author of Skies of Thunder, all about the Hump Airlift.
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1 hr 13 min - 21. Phoenix from the Ashes pt2 - Retraining the Indian ArmyThis week Jack and Rob welcome Dr Alan Jeffreys, author and curator at the National Army Museum, about the retraining of the Indian Army from 1943.
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1 hr 16 min - 20. Phoenix from the Ashes pt 1 – rebuilding the Indian ArmyThis week Jack and Rob get right into the details of the second half of 1943, where the ashes of the 1942 retreat and 1943's First Arakan debacle were turned into a phoenix that would go on to victory in 1944/45.
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About The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2
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The definitive podcast about the Burma Campaign of World War Two. Join historians and authors Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher as they take you through dripping monsoon and jungles, across…
parched plains, and over rivers and mountains sharing the incredible and often brutal story of the war against Japan in Southeast Asia.
Later series will be much of the same, covering anything and everything related to the Burma Campaign - or the China-Burma-India Theatre as it is known in the USA.
You can follow the pod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (X), the handle for all is @forgottenwarpodYou can also email Rob and Jack at [email protected]
By the hosts:Robert Lyman - Slim Master of War (2003), Japan's Last Bid for Victory (2016), A War of Empires (2021), Victory to Defeat (with General Lord Dannatt, 2023), Korea War Without End (with General Lord Dannatt, 2025), and many more.Jack Bowsher - Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma (2024), Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 (2025)
Produced and Edited by Robbie Maguire
Later series will be much of the same, covering anything and everything related to the Burma Campaign - or the China-Burma-India Theatre as it is known in the USA.
You can follow the pod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (X), the handle for all is @forgottenwarpodYou can also email Rob and Jack at [email protected]
By the hosts:Robert Lyman - Slim Master of War (2003), Japan's Last Bid for Victory (2016), A War of Empires (2021), Victory to Defeat (with General Lord Dannatt, 2023), Korea War Without End (with General Lord Dannatt, 2025), and many more.Jack Bowsher - Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma (2024), Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 (2025)
Produced and Edited by Robbie Maguire
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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