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The Kohima Educational Trust is delighted to announce our next webinar with Dr Robert Lyman MBE who will introduce our guest speaker. Returning for his second webinar, we are very pleased to welcome back Lt Col Mike Tickner who will discuss "The Savage Wars of Peace: the Bloody Aftermath of VJ Day"
The war in the Far East ended abruptly, violently and chaotically following the nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the Imperial Japanese Army had been defeated in Burma and was losing the war in the Pacific, her army in Malaya, Hong Kong, French Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies, Manchuria and Siam was undefeated.
Many of these countries saw the end of the war as their chance for independence and Gurkha, Indian and British troops became responsible for restoring colonial rule and became locked into open combat.
The Allies’ most pressing task was recovering their prisoners of wars and civilian internees, knowing little about their condition or locations in camps across South East Asia, China and Japan.
Japan’s sudden surrender created a seismic resetting of the political and social order in the Far East as power vacuums were exploited for political gain and rapid decisions were made, with consequences which still reverberate today.
The Kohima Educational Trust is delighted to announce our next webinar with Dr Robert Lyman MBE who will introduce our guest speaker. Returning for his second webinar, we are very pleased to welcome back Lt Col Mike Tickner who will discuss "The Savage Wars of Peace: the Bloody Aftermath of VJ Day"
The war in the Far East ended abruptly, violently and chaotically following the nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the Imperial Japanese Army had been defeated in Burma and was losing the war in the Pacific, her army in Malaya, Hong Kong, French Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies, Manchuria and Siam was undefeated.
Many of these countries saw the end of the war as their chance for independence and Gurkha, Indian and British troops became responsible for restoring colonial rule and became locked into open combat.
The Allies’ most pressing task was recovering their prisoners of wars and civilian internees, knowing little about their condition or locations in camps across South East Asia, China and Japan.
Japan’s sudden surrender created a seismic resetting of the political and social order in the Far East as power vacuums were exploited for political gain and rapid decisions were made, with consequences which still reverberate today.
