During this conflict, Major Isagoda’s Battalion occupied the town of Rathedaung on the Mayu River and used “the place where war meets,” Sittwe, as a deepwater port. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this war in which Japanese and Thai forces invaded Burma after an aerial bombardment of Rangoon.
ANSWER: World War II [or WWII]
[10h] Isagoda’s Battalion participated in this Japanese offensive that invaded India from Burma but was defeated at Imphal and Kohima. It was the largest defeat in Japanese history at the time and one of the last Japanese offensives.
ANSWER: Operation U-Go (“oo-go”)
[10m] U-Go included the first action of Azad Hind, a Japanese-aligned movement led by this man. While in Germany, he had gained Nazi political support for Azad Hind but no military support for Indian independence.
ANSWER: Subhas Chandra Bose
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