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The Pacific Story · May 27, 1945 · 4 min · 568 words
The transcript of “Japan in Indochina 4 minute clip C”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast May 27, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Of all arrangements that be made. Fighting is going on at Lang Song, Sannoy and Dongdang. Ah, you will resist with the last pink. Wait, everybody... The bitter hopeless fighting went on for four days. Then far behind the fighting, Japanese transports put at the Harvard High Farm.
Keep most people back where? Make way for the truth. Look at these Japanese coming off these transports. There must be 25,000 or more. There were more. 38,000 trained shock troops. Keep those people out of the way. Make leave all the time.
That's 36, 37 tanks already. And still they come. 60 powerful tanks were landed. The fighting ended in the North. The troops took over not only the three airports originally of Ritaván, but took six instead.
Japanese warplanes swarmed in. They coo gave up. For all practical purposes, the Japanese have taken all of Northern Indochana. What could we do? It's my opinion that it won't be long until they move south and take all of Indochana.
No, no, no, no, they will do nothing of the kind. The Japanese who landed at the D'Alarm Airfield at Hanoi, and said he were the traffic examiner, turned out to be a Japanese officer. He commanded some of the troops in the fighting around Don Dang, when the Japanese crossed in from China.
What has made opposition more difficult? Is that many of you animates and many Tonkinis are cooperating with the Japanese? Some animates and some Tonkinis left Hindu China years ago to be educated in Japan. The reason they left is that they felt their position was hopeless in Indochina. Still most of us are not Japanese.
But you are not for all false. No. Japanese troops and supplies poured in and Italian engineers attached to the Italian consulate at Hanoi took over the job of converting the airport into major bombing bases for the Japanese. The plans for the construction job were ready by the time the Japanese took the airport. And while some of the Italian engineers were busy extending the runways
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