Need help with map of Japanese empire

[Chukada1]

Can I have a map that shows the Japanese Empire when the atomic bomb was dropped?

[Hookah Smoking Caterpiller]

Best I could come up with, but its pretty detailed.

[Pious Agnost]

By the final point of the war, the Soviets had taken Manchuria, some of China and North Korea back from the Japanese, and I'm sure the Allies had taken other large swathes of it.

That map is a bit too early

[Heinz Guderian]

edit: ^that flag says 1941 bottom right

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[Fionn son of Cumhaill]

edit: ^that flag says 1941 bottom right

I think its a carthographic map and beneath it it says in blue writing Areas under Allied and Japanese control.15th of August 1945

[Jenuensis]

Japan still had much of South East Asia. Thats where all of Japans soldiers were.



This one is more closer to the Atomic Bombings in August

[Jenuensis]

Yeah but it's still accurate.

[Heinz Guderian]

Yeah but it's still accurate.

you're right sorry.

lol they really kicked the **** outta the Dutch

[Xanthippus of Sparta]

you're right sorry.

lol they really kicked the **** outta the Dutch

Yeah, ABDA-COM failed pretty hard.

But Dutch probably put up a tougher fight for the East Indies than they could for the defense of the Netherlands. The KNIL was a pretty large force on paper. They fought pretty well on Sumatra, the Japanese suffered heavy losses before allied troops were evacuated. But this didn't really affect the bigger picture much. The KNIL suffered from a large lack of modern equipment (newer American gear was en-route to the Indies when the fighting started) and poorly trained Indonesian conscripts.

Wow my mistake. I didn't realize that Japan had that many troops in China and Manchuria.

Yep, the Chinese pinning down so many Japanese troops so late in the war aided the final victory immensely. The Japanese stubbornly refused to give up any ground in China, no matter how pointless it was.

[Jenuensis]

Wow my mistake. I didn't realize that Japan had that many troops in China and Manchuria.

[Sphere]

The Manchurian campaign by the Soviets though had essentially crushed entirety of Japanese forces, such that the Russian forces had almost complete freedom of movement, with Japanese forces holed up in a few strongholds. I.e. the map is somewhat misleading in Manchuria as if the war had continued for only a few days longer all of Manchuria and most of northern China would have been under Soviet control.


It is one of the most overlooked campaigns of the war, but in many ways it was the most impressive.