Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leyte landing: "The strategic result of capturing the Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...
...their troops in the Philippines was the surest indication of the Philippines' importance in the plans of Tokyo's High Command. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's arrival in Manila was announced with a flurry by Tokyo Radio. Fat-faced. Nazi-loving Yamashita. brutal, able conqueror of Malaya and Singapore. Bataan and Corregidor, was quoted as saying: "The only words I spoke to the British commander during the negotiations for the surrender of Singapore were: 'All I want to hear from you is "yes or no." ' I expect to put the same question to Mac-Arthur...
...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
...jungles, said the Australian Army commander, General Sir Thomas Blamey, last week. Army Minister Francis Forde announced Australia's casualties since 1939: 83,976* including 16,639 killed, 5,976 missing. When the time comes to root Japs out of other bypassed areas, such as Java and Malaya, observers do not doubt that the Diggers will be doing that rooting, too. The Diggers' rear-area assignment would not be the hardest life they had seen, but it would be no vacation tour...
...perhaps stronger. Its 4,000,000 soldiers are organized in 70 combat divisions of about 20,000 men each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...