Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Dec. 7 nearly the whole pile of savings had been spread, widely and with studied recklessness, on the table: 200 planes over Pearl Harbor, scores of transports off Malaya, 200,000 men thrown at Luzon, oil burned up in submarine raids off California, shells pumped onto Guam, Wake and Midway, artillery squandered at Hong Kong, shrapnel consumed in a new Chinese offensive, cruisers risked in an attack on Sarawak, precious bombs dropped on Sumatra and Burma-a total bet of nearly all Japan's power. At best Japan stood to lose far more than she could replace soon...
...been placed not only riskily, but well. It looked as if Japan might win far more than she had staked and might win it the only way she could, quickly. Already she had achieved naval supremacy in the western Pacific, air supremacy in the Philippines and Malaya. She had taken Guam, Wake, Mindanao, Hong Kong, Sarawak, most of Luzon, nearly half of Malaya...
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...
...Indian defenses to bolster Burma? Should the U.S. rush in more air power besides the 100 "volunteer" pilots of the International Tigers (who last week helped shoot down nine Japanese planes over Rangoon)? Should China mount an offensive into Indo-China, or rush troops into Burma, or even to Malaya? The conferees announced the creation of a Military Council, the first working body for joint action in the war. But their strategic decisions necessarily remained a military secret...
Winston Churchill's critics at home were little more impressed than Australia by the smash hit he scored in Washington. Angered by Britain's performances in Hong Kong and Malaya, they cried more loudly than ever that the Prime Minister's Government is deadweighted with stiff, obsolete wearers of The Old School...