Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the N.E.I.: that within two hours of the attack every Jap in the islands had been interned; that the Dutch were in action and that one of their submarines had started things going by nosing like a blind mud cat through the shallows on the east coast of Malaya and had sunk four Jap transports. For by now he knew that the Dutch in the Indies were, like his onetime friend Hein ter Poorten, pleasant, poker-faced, indomitable, prepared...
Blood on the Islands. The Jap's furious assault on the Philippines and Malaya has worked better than anybody but the Jap (and perhaps the Dutch) had expected. The Jap has knocked out Hong Kong and Manila, immobilized the great base at Singapore and grievously threatened its possession. Already his pathway to the Indies has been opened...
...Army airmen also jumped into the Malaya fight, burned grounded planes and a hangar on a Jap airdrome 300 miles northwest of Singapore...
...Aussies were to test in blood a British gamble. Sometime ago the British Command had recognized that it could not hold north Malaya. Its troops were outnumbered four-to-one (or more), out-planed, outgunned, later out-tanked. There were some 1,000 miles of coast to defend, a half-score coastal inlets that invited Japanese flanking...
...British made a decision which was dictated by necessity; to yield almost all Malaya, saving the Australians for a compact shield of men just north of Singapore. This would stretch Japanese communications through hundreds of miles of Commando-infested jungle, shorten British communications and coastline to the defensible limits of the troops in hand...