soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Mar 12, 5:45 pm, Cubdriver
wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:27:47 -0400, Dave Anderer
> wrote:
>
> >Second, the Japanese had no real experience for staging an opposed
> >landing against a well-entrenched foe and no doctrine for naval fire
> >support
>
> Yes, in the Malaya landing, they basically put the troops in lifeboats
> and had the sailors row them ashore, or anyhow close enough to the
> beach so they could jump out and mostly wade ashore. They were lucky
> indeed that the British defenders were elsewhere (and had no doctrine
> either!).
>
> Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
>
> Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
> new from HarperCollinswww.FlyingTigersBook.com

Dan, the British defenders were elsewhere but the Japanese landing was
opposed by a Dogra regiment of the Indian Army. I'm surprised that you
don't know this as you sell Colonel Tsuji's book on your website and
he relates in his book how tough the landing near Kota Baru was. The
RAF sank one of the Japanese transports as well.
The opposition was hit and miss for the landings in Thailand. Pattani
and Prachuap Khiri Khan were vigorously opposed but several others
were opposed by local police forces only.

The Japanese Invasion of Pattani

http://www.geocities.com/thailandwwii/pattani.html

The Japanese Invasion of Prachuap Khiri Khan

http://www.geocities.com/thailandwwii/prachuap.html

The poorest response was from the Australians on Rabaul, the Portugese
and Australians on Timor and the Dutch native and Australian troops at
Ambon. Very few Japanese were killed in those landings.

Joe