Word: kuantan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While it was stated that the British were destroying everything in the path of their retreat, facts told a different story. To give one instance, it was announced they destroyed everything at Kuantan Airdrome on the east coast. Two days later the R.A.F. was sent over to bomb the undamaged hangars and the Japanese aircraft already using the field...
SINGAPORE--Japanese invaders have captured Kuantan, fortified town and air base on the east coast of Malaya 175 miles from Singapore, but British Imperials virtually have annthilated the latest Japanese landing parties on the steamy, west coast swamps, it was announced today...
East Try, West Try. First they attacked Malaya's east coast. This attack had just two foci and two aims. Beachheads were established at Kota Bahru, in the extreme northeast, and at Kuantan, about 200 miles north of Singapore. These two places are the keys to east coast transportation, Kota Bahru being the only rail-sea junction along the whole coast, Kuantan the only highway-sea junction, except in the extreme south...
...transportation. They were: 1) to reduce the principal British airdrome on the east coast and get a foothold for air attack; 2) to draw as much British defensive strength as possible to the east. At least at Kota Bahru the first aim was achieved. By this week the Kuantan landing had not yet amounted to much. It was not clear how far the British let themselves be sucked in by the second...
Singora to Singapore. Dopesters in London guessed that although the British would fight hard in the extreme north, they would probably not send heavy reinforcements up, but would fall back into central Malaya, to insure themselves against being cut off by a cross-country spur from Kuantan. As for the defenses of Singapore itself, they had. as yet, no qualms...