Costly Mistake

And the Japanese, general ship in Burma was not good in comparison with other places um, because they, they got into a program of trying to take info and instead of avoiding this, the usual tactics were to avoid ah, defensive struggles and appear further up the line and ah, they didn't do that there. And so they lost the main battles in the Chin Hills where their army was decimated, well more than that. They had a third of a million people in Burma and they lost um, two thirds of those through disease and hunger as well as through activities of the army and the air force.