1943 to August 14, British and American leaders met in Quebec, Canada. After a heated debate, the talks adopted a strategic plan code-named "Overlord", which stipulated that the allied forces would land in Normandy on May 1 the following year. In addition, it is planned to land an auxiliary campaign codenamed "Anvil" near Toulon and Sai in France.
After the talks, on August 3 1 day, mountbatten became the supreme commander of the Southeast Asian theater and was promoted to wartime admiral.
General mountbatten, commander-in-chief of Allied Southeast Asia Theater, and Lieutenant General Stilwell, deputy commander-in-chief, as commanders-in-chief of Southeast Asia Theater, mountbatten naturally wanted to make contributions here, while Churchill bound his hands and feet with the view of "Europe first". He felt alienated from the Prime Minister and gradually lost Churchill's full support. Although the "pirate" operation failed in the end, mountbatten was not discouraged, and began to plan an operation code-named "pig hunting" that suited him, with the aim of landing on the Meiyu Peninsula and cutting off the Japanese traffic lines at the scene. At the end of 1943, Whitehall telegraphed mountbatten, forbidding him to use three of the five large tank landing ships moored in Hu. 1944 65438+1October 7, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff called and ordered him to cancel all amphibious attacks in the Southeast Asian theater and transfer all landing equipment to Europe. Later, mountbatten even received instructions to transport most of the shells weighing more than 25 pounds to European war zones. His plan of "hunting pigs" became "hunted pigs".
At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese troops stationed in Myanmar had just completed reorganization. Among them, in order to carry out offensive operations in the southwest coastal areas, the 28th Army was specially organized on June1944+1October 65438. The commander of the army is Lieutenant General Sakurai Province No.3 Middle School, which has the 2nd, 54th and 55th divisions. Of the three divisions, only the second division was a unit that was badly damaged by the US military on Guadalcanal Island and then rebuilt in the Philippines. The 54th Division was a so-called "special division" hastily established in China last year.
The British Army 15 Army in Rakhine State is composed of the British 5th Division, the British-Indian 7th Division and the 8 1 West Asia Division. The commander is Lieutenant General Christensen. In order to strengthen the command of this army, mountbatten changed several general commanders. Among them, with the consent of London, Major General Frank Mesvi, the hero of the British and Italian troops in the battle of Laugraud fortress in Ethiopia, was transferred to the 7th division commander of Britain and India. The war in Rakhine State has just subsided 10 for more than 0 days. On March 8, the Japanese army 15, three divisions and its distribution troops, nearly 654,380+10,000 fascist officers and men began to cross the Qindun River and invade the Japanese territory, which opened the curtain of the Battle of Impal. On March 8th, when the vanguard of Lieutenant General Mudaguchi crossed the Qindun River and called Impal, mountbatten was hospitalized due to severe internal bleeding in his left eye. However, the news from Impal made him anxious. Despite the doctor's dissuasion, he resolutely left the hospital and flew to Slim headquarters in Camilla.
After listening to Slim's report, mountbatten evacuated the troops defending along the border west of Qindun River to the highland near Impal to organize defense. According to the war history expert of Japan's defense agency after the war, "this policy is exactly what the Japanese army wants, but Lieutenant General Mudaguchi just didn't see it."
The so-called Battle of Impal includes not only a series of battles around Impal, but also fierce battles between Britain and Japan in Ruhr, Vucko and Koshima, north of Impal. On March 8, Lieutenant General Yukio Sato led the 3 1 Division to cross the Qindun River by raft and boat. After resting in Tang Dou and Homalin, they marched into Koshima in three columns, attacked the Ruhr area of Vucko, and seized the main road to Koshima.
Slim reported this critical situation to mountbatten, and mountbatten immediately dispatched reinforcements from the 5th and 7th Divisions of Britain and India, and ordered the 3rd Special Assault Brigade directly under the Central Committee to prepare for air support. In addition, the 23rd Breakthrough Brigade of "Yin Di" stationed in Hong Kong at that time was ordered to cover Lido, so that the 2nd British Division could come from Indian mainland.
On May 13, the remaining Japanese positions on Djair Mountain were also occupied by British and Indian soldiers. Japanese Lieutenant General Sato Yukio led his troops to retreat to the supply site. Mountbatten received a report that the Japanese army on the Koshma front showed signs of retreat, and ordered the 2nd British Division and the 7th British-Indian Division to concentrate on Ma 'ao one after another, and then captured the Ruhr in Vucko.
On June 22nd, two teams, like Gang Qian's pliers, clamped the Japanese army at the milestone of Koshima Highway 109. After the interception battle in Ruhr, Vucko, the commander of the 15 Army and the brigade commander of the 33rd Party, Masazo Riverside, submitted a report to the Japanese Southern Army General Command and the Tokyo Base Camp, which had moved to Manila at this time, requesting to stop the Ukrainian army's actions.
Although mountbatten has opened the door to Yangon, the rainy season is coming and Yangon must be conquered quickly.
In the race against time, the 4th Army of Mesvi still lost to the rainy season. So in May of 1945 and 1, mountbatten implemented the amphibious landing plan for Yangon. In fact, before this, mountbatten had considered the possibility that Messiwei's troops would be blocked by the rainy season, so he took out a division from Christensen 15 Army in Chittagong to Rakhine State, which was to deploy a medium tank regiment and a paratrooper battalion, and urgently looked for some landing craft to assemble and stand by.
1 in may, a few hours before the British army launched an amphibious landing, mountbatten asked the air force to fly over Yangon for reconnaissance and found that the Japanese army had fled. However, the landing plan continues. On the 2nd, they joined together and entered Yangon without any resistance. On the morning of May 6th, the vanguard of the 4th Army of Mesevey, which was heading south from Bagu, finally entered Yangon.