Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already on the British 20-yard line. In seven weeks of fighting, starting from his own goal on the Thailand-Malaya border, he had moved 360 miles south through the steaming jungle. His weapons had been end runs, forward passes and quarterback sneaks. Now the time had come for power bucks, because pay dirt-the precious island of Singapore...
...tiny apologetic words the Australian Commander in Malaya, Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, said: "The situation is very confused...
...eastern Burma the British massed troops in a race against time. They wanted to assemble enough strength either to protect the United Nations' supply line to China, or to slash the Jap's supply lines into Malaya. But the Jap threw the first punch and opened a new front...
...supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...
SINGAPORE--Japanese troops pushed down the Malaya Railway, through the center of the Imperial defense line, to within 31 miles of Singapore today for an 18-mile advance in two days against flercely-fighting but outnumbered Australians...