Thank God I stumbled upon this channel after searching for videos of Battleship Bismarck, Yamato, & Littorio. I haven't seen many videos covering the Southeast Asian theater of the WWII prior to your channel 👌🏽
The Sarawak Rangers later became 1st Malaysia Rangers. They were arguably potentially the best jungle troops in the world because they were native to that environment. However, in 1941 the British failed to exploit this potential adequately. They came into their own over two decades later during "Confrontation" with Indonesia, when they were initially used as trackers for the Commonwealth forces and later 1st Malaysia Rangers mopped up Indonesian infiltrators with little difficulty.
Thank you for that. My late wife was a Chinese lady from Kuching. I used to tease her when we would disagree over something by calling her a "CT" as the Chinese population were disproportionately represented among the Communist insurrectionists but it was all in good fun.
As someone who has done military exercises in Brunei I have utmost respect for the men who fought in the jungles there. The terrain is absolutely hell on earth.
As someone who loved in the jungles of Indonesia for about 8 years, I can tell you - it can consume people with heat, disease, insects and poisonous snakes. Mountains can slow down a person to just a few miles per day.
I just want to say how tired I am of all the morons complaining about the narration. Not everyone is a native English speaker. People do the best they can and should be applauded for their efforts. Any failure in diction is and should be overlooked and the amazing content just enjoyed and all the snobs should just keep their bad attitude to their selves. One amazing thing about UA-cam is how people from all over the world speaking a myriad of different native languages can learn to share with one another. I have a degree in history and there are times when I spot some error or other but unless it is an intentional attempt at propaganda or disinformation I just overlook it and salute the content creators efforts to do something I don't have the time or energy to do. So just sit back, keep your rude and obnoxious comments to yourself and just enjoy!
Thank you for the video. I thought I knew about the Borneo campaign but you have provided detailed information that I did not know. How could I miss the Battle of Makassar Strait and the USN destroyer attack!
@2:41 its stated that the great Oil fields of Borneo were located in British North, and "Dutch West Side" but the area highlighted is on the east coast of Dutch Borneo. [shades of "Krakatoa East of Java" which is actually West of Java"?]
Thanks for the videos. I'm a Malaysian and I appreciate this production of yours. I realised that there aren't many videos regarding the Battle of Borneo. The British and the Dutch, together with the Australians, US and the Canadians in Hong Kong should have concentrate all their forces in the Borneo. If they have concentrate their forces in the Borneo much earlier, it would be a prolonged war of attrition and it would help the Pacific War much more. The Allies could have play a better guerrilla war in the Borneo due to the thick jungle and the mountains and harass the Japanese in the coastal area.
@金城㱐 Hong Kong isn't very defensible and like many colonial areas were undermanned and had second rate equipment. The high command also underestimated the Japanese to the frustration of frontline commanders who saw what the Japanese were capable of first hand.
Holland was taken over by the Germans, so I guess they had an excuse, but for the British, I would like to know how much of the problem with defending the empire in the East was down to being committed to the war in Europe and North Africa, and how much was down to the incompetence and unpreparedness of the British government.
@@jonathanwarner1844 the numbers tells you everything...how could a few thousands make any difference? Might as well not have anyone in the first place.
No, actually it’s like buying a car you don’t need snd can’t afford. The whole region was a write off braced against the strategic needs for defense at that stage in the Pacific campaign.
@Lee Shackelford The French and British knew Hitler would not stop when they gave away the Sudetenland they did it to buy time to help prepare their economy and populace for war and politically there was no appetite for an intervention.
Such a comprehensive explanation of the Battle of Borneo. And perhaps it's true that it isn't a well-known battle as it's not spoken of here in Malaysia. Glad I stumbled upon this video.
may I ask for permission to get this video? want this video to put to Uploaded to my account NBS -Northern Borneo Sabah news so that it will be shown into My channel.
I have barely come to know of this channel. I am very interested in any historical and military narratives. Your breakdown, graphics, musical score and especially the voice in the narration are superb! Please do more!!!!
Thank You, I'm glad you like it. Most of my reference comes from this site. dutcheastindies.webs.com/borneo.html dutcheastindies.webs.com/sarawak.html You can refer here. They have great contents about the forgotten Dutch East Indies Campaign. They also mentioned some facts about KNIL secret airfields.
Great video, keep up the good work! I shall be honest and say that I am not a fan of the computer generated voice. It is rather off-putting, and distracts from the historical content. The content itself though is quite solid, great research and animations.
@Encik PakLan dont bluntly say someone stupid just because of a mere mispronounced word and no other reason... i think the one who lacks intelligent here is you, sir because you clearly don't know the etiquette of the internet. Maybe you should learn some ethics before writing and posting this comment here on a public board. Or simply delete the comment as it'll cause more understatement. Welcome to my ted talk, farvel.
The Dutch subs really gave the Japanese hell. Even the measly Air Force did what it could. I've always thought the Dutch didn't get enough credit for their defense of their colonies.
Same goes for Europe in 1940. We Dutch decimated the German Fallschirmjägers at The Hague. Around 800 of them were transported to England as captives by a torpedoboat. I recommend you read the book of E.H Brongers if you would like to know more about this.
It didn't help that the British relocated some of their troops to Hong Kong and Singapore, which to them had much more value than their slice of Borneo.
I lay in bed alone with my cat Tim while we watch this. My cat fricken loves this stuff. I think he was a soldier in a different life. Perhaps he fought here in ww2? Who knows. We can watch all day.
Excellent content. Well covered and well explained. I don't think the robo-voice is that bad. I understood what was said. However, you "did" say you would use human narrators, previously.
@@sirstephen9825 No : the main reason was that within 2 days of official Japanese surrender in august 1945, the indepence leader Soekarno declared independence of the Dutch Indies , proclaiming the republic of Indonesia , which was finally recognized after 4 years by the dutch government in 1949.
29:50 The serious damage is inflicted on IJN transport capacity. Unusually mind-boggling wafer-thin British defence of an oil-producing region. Great presentation of the events that took place on equatorial Borneo Island. Funny enough, Brunei didn't become fully independent from the UK until 1984.
As an American, I’m always horrified that our early entrance into the war could have stopped Germany and Japan so much sooner. This especially because I well appreciate the isolationists and pacifists of the interwar period. We were wrong.
Borneo is Indonesian, Sarawakian,Sabahan and Brunei . malaya out from *BORNEO* . malaya RACIST people . we here never do that in borneo . Only borneo people know everything about our country *BORNEO* but not malayan . They dont know they only know stealing sarawak oil
Pronunciation is attrocious. I was especially surprised to hear that Syria is in Borneo. The second syllable is good enough, but the Se in Seria should be "Sir".
Good job sir with fully description, but as indonesian citizen. I want to made correction on your pointed location banjarmasin, that place you pointed is palangkaraya. Wish backthen english colonized indonesia 😁
I'm 52 ringgit people only at Malaysia country Malaysia citizen.. How many batillion stations again have for search this area location. This land town have another or not for years search ..... Have gold or not
Why this voice though? And why is it so long? I was constantly clicking to fast forward on 2x speed. This could have been cut at least by half the lenght.
Dear sir, his job is fantastic. You talk us about a unknown history. Greetings from Brazil.
Thank God I stumbled upon this channel after searching for videos of Battleship Bismarck, Yamato, & Littorio. I haven't seen many videos covering the Southeast Asian theater of the WWII prior to your channel 👌🏽
The creator of this channel is now animating for Kings and Generals on their pactific war series. This guy is really talented, so it's exciting!
@@Zogerpogger Now wonder it felt familiar...
The opening photo features my late uncle, Stanley Ho, and an unknown friend in 1945. It was taken in Beaufort, my late father's hometown.
Wow
Cool
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That's fascinating, amazing how images of our predecessors when they were young are just floating around.
The Sarawak Rangers later became 1st Malaysia Rangers. They were arguably potentially the best jungle troops in the world because they were native to that environment. However, in 1941 the British failed to exploit this potential adequately. They came into their own over two decades later during "Confrontation" with Indonesia, when they were initially used as trackers for the Commonwealth forces and later 1st Malaysia Rangers mopped up Indonesian infiltrators with little difficulty.
Thank you for that. My late wife was a Chinese lady from Kuching. I used to tease her when we would disagree over something by calling her a "CT" as the Chinese population were disproportionately represented among the Communist insurrectionists but it was all in good fun.
@@marctempler3250 CT?
@@crash42modder13communist terrorist
Great the see someone also covering the Dutch! Thanks alot.
As someone who has done military exercises in Brunei I have utmost respect for the men who fought in the jungles there. The terrain is absolutely hell on earth.
@Cream PiE south East Asian terrain isnt that differents
As someone who loved in the jungles of Indonesia for about 8 years, I can tell you - it can consume people with heat, disease, insects and poisonous snakes. Mountains can slow down a person to just a few miles per day.
Kokoda was worse.
@@nedkelly9688Guadalkanal is very notorious
This series is that rare thing - an internet product that is better than anything equivalent available in print in English. More please.
Thanks so much for this video. Balikpapan is my hometown. This WW2 history is rarely documented. Fantastic work sir.
Also balikpapan my hometown also
I just want to say how tired I am of all the morons complaining about the narration. Not everyone is a native English speaker. People do the best they can and should be applauded for their efforts. Any failure in diction is and should be overlooked and the amazing content just enjoyed and all the snobs should just keep their bad attitude to their selves. One amazing thing about UA-cam is how people from all over the world speaking a myriad of different native languages can learn to share with one another. I have a degree in history and there are times when I spot some error or other but unless it is an intentional attempt at propaganda or disinformation I just
overlook it and salute the content creators efforts to do something I don't have the time or energy to do. So just sit back, keep your rude and obnoxious comments to yourself and just enjoy!
many thanks for a precise HI
story presentation
never too late to learn
ignore the jealous critics more please
Freelancer is cheap
The thing it doesn't sound natural, so it's maybe a program
Yes sir. But at least the people from around the world try to study and speak english. Please just try to respect people learning language. Peace 🤝😊
Stop being silly Roland - it may just be you are the moron here. This is botvoice talk at its very worst. Nothing to do with ignorance or snobbery.
Thank you for the video. I thought I knew about the Borneo campaign but you have provided detailed information that I did not know. How could I miss the Battle of Makassar Strait and the USN destroyer attack!
The Battle of Surabaya..broke the europeans megalust
@2:41 its stated that the great Oil fields of Borneo were located in British North, and "Dutch West Side" but the area highlighted is on the east coast of Dutch Borneo. [shades of "Krakatoa East of Java" which is actually West of Java"?]
Thanks for the videos. I'm a Malaysian and I appreciate this production of yours.
I realised that there aren't many videos regarding the Battle of Borneo. The British and the Dutch, together with the Australians, US and the Canadians in Hong Kong should have concentrate all their forces in the Borneo. If they have concentrate their forces in the Borneo much earlier, it would be a prolonged war of attrition and it would help the Pacific War much more. The Allies could have play a better guerrilla war in the Borneo due to the thick jungle and the mountains and harass the Japanese in the coastal area.
might want to look in to war in Papua New Guinea and timor and Africa and know Australians were busy.
@金城㱐 Hong Kong isn't very defensible and like many colonial areas were undermanned and had second rate equipment. The high command also underestimated the Japanese to the frustration of frontline commanders who saw what the Japanese were capable of first hand.
I'm from Borneo, especially Central Kalimantan. Proud
Saye dari Kote pontianak
Saya dari Sarawak
Saya dari Jawa
@@DaKamerad1945 Off ada kuli
👍👍👍 thnx for the history lesseons....
This was an amazing summary of operations in Borneo. Only complaint is the lack of summary information concerning naval and air units.
Excellent quality presentation. Thank you.
Protectorates without protection...its like paying for something from Amazon but didn’t get delivery
Holland was taken over by the Germans, so I guess they had an excuse, but for the British, I would like to know how much of the problem with defending the empire in the East was down to being committed to the war in Europe and North Africa, and how much was down to the incompetence and unpreparedness of the British government.
@@jonathanwarner1844 the numbers tells you everything...how could a few thousands make any difference? Might as well not have anyone in the first place.
No, actually it’s like buying a car you don’t need snd can’t afford. The whole region was a write off braced against the strategic needs for defense at that stage in the Pacific campaign.
@Lee Shackelford The French and British knew Hitler would not stop when they gave away the Sudetenland they did it to buy time to help prepare their economy and populace for war and politically there was no appetite for an intervention.
The european tribes were running protection rackets on a big scale. just like modern day triads or mafioso.
Why does the voice sound like a male Siri
Because it is.
Yeah Bc It Is He's Lazy
@@byebyeeeeeeee not lazy, he is probably not comfortable with his own English.
Nontheless it is rather off-putting, I'd prefer a human narration.
@@CarthagoMike But he sounds perfect for the pronounciation , i think. Smooth and perfect. Similiar sound in my phone
he sounds like kinda a mixed of siri and winston churchill
Such a comprehensive explanation of the Battle of Borneo. And perhaps it's true that it isn't a well-known battle as it's not spoken of here in Malaysia. Glad I stumbled upon this video.
Awesome Video!👍
Another great video. Thank you👍🏻.
Nice video! I would turn the volume of the music a bit down though... Sometimes its hard to hear your voice... nevertheless - great job
WOW...VERY WELL PRESENTED IN FULL DETAIL...TQ
15:00 Cut head japanese vs Headhunter Dayak Sarawakian
Yeah but sarawakian ww2 is the best country im ever seen
But why sarawak is british now lol
@@yakuzastylo because im is christian not malaya naked like you hahahahahaha
@@yakuzastylo come on naked kid of bitch want hear the joke naked kid losing gangster and proud be naked in highway hahahah 😂😂😂
Excellent piece of work!!!
Very detail battle. Thank you.
may I ask for permission to get this video? want this video to put to Uploaded to my account NBS -Northern Borneo Sabah news so that it will be shown into My channel.
Sure, and don't forget to credits my channel too.
This is completely not msde public. It's an eye opener. It just shows how the colonialst are just nothing!
Nice. I'm from Sarawak, Borneo. This is good information
Same
I have barely come to know of this channel. I am very interested in any historical and military narratives. Your breakdown, graphics, musical score and especially the voice in the narration are superb! Please do more!!!!
do you know Kuching literally means Cat?
TheOis1984 ofc yes there a cat statue in Kuching
Kuhing???
In Malayan Language, and ofc Indonesian, Kuching/Kucing is Cat.
Koting in Filipino means cat also.
@@Roh-c8e also PH: Hey wanna go Sarawak koting?
Your channel is very interesting ... I'm interested about the secret airstrip of Singkawang II.. do you have any references about that?
Thank You, I'm glad you like it.
Most of my reference comes from this site.
dutcheastindies.webs.com/borneo.html
dutcheastindies.webs.com/sarawak.html
You can refer here. They have great contents about the forgotten Dutch East Indies Campaign.
They also mentioned some facts about KNIL secret airfields.
Just found your channel, I am a big fan.
Great video!
This is better Truth & Legit history than the history books we Sarawakians had in school under West Malaysia. Should have included our ACTUAL HISTORY.
You told us things we're never told in Indonesia. Great content.
What's the software used to synthesize the narrating voice? (Shitty as it might be)
Ass eaters accociation.exe
Maye you deserve way more views!
2:40 You SAY "the Dutch west side [of Borneo]" but the EAST coast in indicated by your graphic.
My country history, thanks for this 🙏
It's cool to see videos on these lesser known battles, but your music and sound effects are very annoying.
Great video, keep up the good work!
I shall be honest and say that I am not a fan of the computer generated voice. It is rather off-putting, and distracts from the historical content.
The content itself though is quite solid, great research and animations.
Good information
This is by far the funniest butchering of Sarawak, my head keep hearing SaraWatt 🤣
Balaik papan
@Encik PakLan Is a robotic voice, what do you honestly expect?
No I mean, that its a text2speech voice, I just find it hillarious
@Encik PakLan dont bluntly say someone stupid just because of a mere mispronounced word and no other reason... i think the one who lacks intelligent here is you, sir because you clearly don't know the etiquette of the internet. Maybe you should learn some ethics before writing and posting this comment here on a public board. Or simply delete the comment as it'll cause more understatement. Welcome to my ted talk, farvel.
Encik PakLan lets hear you speak English and laugh
i like this channel, great job
The Dutch subs really gave the Japanese hell. Even the measly Air Force did what it could. I've always thought the Dutch didn't get enough credit for their defense of their colonies.
THANK YOU DETAIL VIDEO OF HISTORY
Seems that the Dutch put up more of a fight than the British did.
Same goes for Europe in 1940. We Dutch decimated the German Fallschirmjägers at The Hague. Around 800 of them were transported to England as captives by a torpedoboat. I recommend you read the book of E.H Brongers if you would like to know more about this.
Borneo was way more important to the dutch then it was to the british. But neither of them really had the rescources to put up a good fight.
Yup
Bc of SPICE
It didn't help that the British relocated some of their troops to Hong Kong and Singapore, which to them had much more value than their slice of Borneo.
What us the name of the outro song?
A very thorough history lesson. Many thanks.
I lay in bed alone with my cat Tim while we watch this. My cat fricken loves this stuff. I think he was a soldier in a different life. Perhaps he fought here in ww2? Who knows. We can watch all day.
such a underrated video
Love your Chanel...
Thanks for sharing about Borneo ,hope next u can make video about dayak in Borneo .✌️💙
SARAWAKian Borneo Negara Asia 🇹🇦 😔 😔😔🙏🙏
I can't decide whether to give you an A for the great content or an F for the robot narration of this video.
Sarawak Borneo is my state......glade have people know this place.
Which sources/books did you use for the research? I would like to know so i can go read for myself.
Very nice Sr,congrats
With solely intention to help,I flew all Borneo last years,and the pronunciation is Baleekpapan.
Thank you from Brasil pilot.
What program do you use to make the map and the animation?
haloo admin, can you made video when alied come to borneo
Why can't the commentatirlearn to pronounce local words correctly. Painful on the ears.
Excellent content. Well covered and well explained. I don't think the robo-voice is that bad. I understood what was said. However, you "did" say you would use human narrators, previously.
[34:46]Tennnoooo Heiikaaaa, Bannzaiiiii...................
wow..greatt👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you 🤗
Voice over destroyed all your great work
Kuching and sarawak before attack by japanese is admin state by brooke kingdom
this cover all history military more then my school smh.
“All history military”
good video
Borneo had pows of sandakan death marches
Japanese murdered Dutch prisoners of war. The Americans came back and avenged them .
Dutch were so nice to Indonesians that they preferred Japanese occupation over those fucking western democracies rule
Was there a war crime trial for the Japanese officers responsible for the murder of Dutch POW?
@@sirstephen9825 No : the main reason was that within 2 days of official Japanese surrender in august 1945, the indepence leader Soekarno declared independence of the Dutch Indies , proclaiming the republic of Indonesia , which was finally recognized after 4 years by the dutch government in 1949.
also 4 million Indonesians died during the occupation.
@@JohnSmith-mb8hi liar
29:50 The serious damage is inflicted on IJN transport capacity. Unusually mind-boggling wafer-thin British defence of an oil-producing region. Great presentation of the events that took place on equatorial Borneo Island. Funny enough, Brunei didn't become fully independent from the UK until 1984.
I am proud Indonesian🇮🇩
Nice
26:46 "There was much rejoicing"
Love the details of the video, but please reduce the volume of the background music, a lot.
History make we grow-up. Tq army force...
Banzai 🙌🎌
As an American, I’m always horrified that our early entrance into the war could have stopped Germany and Japan so much sooner. This especially because I well appreciate the isolationists and pacifists of the interwar period. We were wrong.
21:38
It called Pangkalan Bún, not Pangkalanbàn, but i can recognized that mistake
can you make videos on burma campaign
Of course, that my plan for the future. But first we need to go to thailand first before headed to Burma
thanks
The flag of Sarawak is correct. You are awesome
YES.. KAN ADA JUGA BUNYI MUZIKNYA.
brilliant move the encirclement of defenders with various landings, strategy used by germans in Norway Campaign
Borneo is
Indonesian
Malaysian
And
Brunei
Borneo is Indonesian, Sarawakian,Sabahan and Brunei . malaya out from *BORNEO* . malaya RACIST people . we here never do that in borneo . Only borneo people know everything about our country *BORNEO* but not malayan . They dont know they only know stealing sarawak oil
2 people FUCK YOU
Cypruss Lee SARAWAK FOR SARAWAKIAN
@@laksakuching9264 nice name XD
@@cyprusslee8655 Wow, are you one of the SSKM parties the Sabah and Sarawak Independence movement? cool!
Pronunciation is attrocious. I was especially surprised to hear that Syria is in Borneo. The second syllable is good enough, but the Se in Seria should be "Sir".
So much effort destroyed by auto generated narration :(
Good job sir with fully description, but as indonesian citizen. I want to made correction on your pointed location banjarmasin, that place you pointed is palangkaraya. Wish backthen english colonized indonesia 😁
Now Sabah and Sarawak states are occupied by Malaya. And Sabah became the poorest state in Malaysia even though Sabah is the biggest oil producer.
Can yoy talk about the independence of indonesia?
Love the Japanese Military Marching band music
Is it true that some local Chinese in North Borneo, out number and out gun, to up arms against the Japanese forces.
The very poor pronounciations of names, places, etc., makes it very VERY hard to understand/follow the audio comments!!! Such a shame.
So a fight to the death or uncertain surrender terms hard to figure
I'm 52 ringgit people only at Malaysia country Malaysia citizen.. How many batillion stations again have for search this area location. This land town have another or not for years search ..... Have gold or not
Oil in "Dutch west side"--that should be "east"
Maybe it was correct. Because the east was belong to west. Maybe until now
gave up the voice and music were irritating
Being a Malaysian, those pronunciations...
It’s computer-generated, how else would it turn out to be
@@xandk4009 Haha~ XD
Why this voice though? And why is it so long? I was constantly clicking to fast forward on 2x speed. This could have been cut at least by half the lenght.
He goes into details, if you are watching this in 2x speed then you might not want to watch this serie
Sarawak-born here 🙋🏻♂️😬
Thanks for the historical stories..
Now I know why,in my grandfather metal saving box have a lot's of Japanese money.. pictures of bananas tree's...