axis powers attacked india in the second world war.
axis powers attacked india in the second world war.
who attacked india in the second world war?
axis powers
in early 1944, the american army provided six battalions of dedicated railway troops, about 4,700 men. by october 1944 they had raised the capacity to 4,400 tonnes and by january 1946 to 7,300 tonnes a day. this was possible by the increase in staff from two british, or indian, officers to twenty seven experienced american railroad men on the same length of line and the introduction of more powerful american and canadian locomotives. without the trebling of capacity, the supply of chinese troops in china would not have been possible once the japanese attacked india and the fourteenth army counterattacked.
north-east indian railways during world war ii
although southwest asia was destined to remain a strategic backwater for the duration of world war ii, in late 1941 and early 1942 the allies were not certain that it would remain so. before the turning points of the battle of stalingrad (june 1942 to february, 1943) and the second battle of el alamein (october to november 1942), the fear was that the germans might attack the area either through turkey, or via cyprus into lebanon; or through defeating of the british 8th army in egypt. if the anticipated attack came through turkey or lebanon, then not only could the axis powers threaten british controlled egypt and the strategically important suez canal via an advance through palestine and the sinai peninsula, it would also allow the germans an alternative route to attack the soviet union from southwest asia north through the ussr's southern frontiers. in the slightly longer term the british feared independent regimes in the region as well as the possibility that the germans might follow in alexander the great's footsteps and attack british controlled india from persia in the west as japan simultaneously attacked india from the east through burma.
middle east theatre of world war ii