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...Japanese heavily bombed Kunming, Chinese terminus of the Burma Road, to prevent, they said, a Chinese drive into Indo-China or later through Burma into Thailand...
...till 1940 did the turn come. Then Japan occupied northern Indo-China, threatened the U.S. with the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. The Philippines were defended then by some 3,000 U.S. soldiers, a handful of mobile 155-mm. howitzers, some old 755, about 100 first-line planes and some old craft which, said the pilots banteringly, could make 100 miles an hour if they dove straight down. If war broke out, all MacArthur's Philippine Army was to be transferred to the American Commander in Chief of the Philippine Department...
...Vichy's Governor of Indo-China, Admiral Jean Decoux, was not only smoothly accommodating Japan's occupation forces, but (before the U.S.-Japanese war) was even said to have asked the Japanese for military equipment...
...Japanese troops marched into French Indo-China in a "limited occupation"-by agreement with the Vichy Government of a France already defeated...
July 30, 1941. Under a new pact with Vichy for "common defense" of the territory, more Japanese troops poured into French Indo-China...