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The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2

The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2

By: Robert Lyman and Jack Bowsher
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 The definitive podcast about the Burma Campaign of World War Two. Join historians and authors Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher as they take you through dripping monsoon and jungles, across parched plains, and over rivers and mountains sharing the incredible and often brutal story of the war against Japan in Southeast Asia.


In Series One (Spring 2025) Rob and Jack did a general broad brush narrative of the campaign.


Series Two began in June 2025 and includes interviews with historians, relatives of veterans, and plenty of narratives by Jack and Rob, all about the retreat in 1942.
Later series will be much of the same, covering anything and everything related to the Burma Campaign - or the China-Burma-India Theatre as it is known in the USA.


Sponsored by The Burma Star Memorial Fund, Sampan Travel, The Kohima Educational Trust, and Guidl.
You can follow the pod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (X), the handle for all is @forgottenwarpodYou can also email Rob and Jack at forgottenwarpod@gmail.com
By the hosts:Robert Lyman - Slim Master of War (2003), Japan's Last Bid for Victory (2016), A War of Empires (2021), Victory to Defeat (with General Lord Dannatt, 2023), Korea War Without End (with General Lord Dannatt, 2025), and many more.Jack Bowsher - Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma (2024), Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 (2025)


Produced and Edited by Robbie Maguire


*Note from the hosts: In some episodes there may be the use of language that is outdated in the modern world. This is only ever said in the show as quotations by individuals who lived at the time when those phrases were in common usage across the world.*

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Episodes
  • 13. Operation Longcloth: the first Chindits

    13. Operation Longcloth: the first Chindits
    Apr 6 2026
    Join Jack and Rob as they tackle one of the most famous stories of the Burma Campaign - Operation Longcloth, the first Chindit expedition.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 12. Pangsha: The Story of a Naga Village

    12. Pangsha: The Story of a Naga Village
    Mar 30 2026
    In this week Rob and Jack discuss the story of the very remote Naga village of Pangsha in the Second World War.

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    56 mins
  • 11. The Indian Air Force

    11. The Indian Air Force
    Mar 23 2026
    This week Jack and Rob welcome KS 'Sree' Nair to the pod to discuss the Indian Air Force - its origins and early work in the Second World War. We will of course have him back in later series to discuss the IAF up to 1945, including its change to the Royal Indian Air Force in 1945.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
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So much information about an area and time during the second world war that is often overlooked. Interesting and varied with a fun double act pulling it all together. Well worth a listen.

Lots of amazing information

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I love it because it keeps you entertained even if you don’t know about it. Keep it up I will listen to every one you post ( if I can ) thank you. Ps it’s really cool how you have made a podcast that is on something people don’t really know about

Amazing

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