Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting with its back to the wall-in far-off Luzon. Only a little more than a fortnight after the U.S. had gone to war, the democracies were faced with a possible defeat as serious as the fall of France-the loss of the entire Far East if Malaya and the Philippines succumbed. And at this juncture the leaders of the two biggest democracies took a step that filled their nations with satisfaction out of all proportion to its simple practicality and logic...
...these defeats were taken with anger, but relative complacency, by the U.S. Because of these cumulative defeats a U.S. Army was fighting a desperate battle in the Philippines and a British Army was in a tough spot in Malaya. If those two engagements end in defeat, the U.S. will not be able to shrug them off as two more battles lost-they will mark the loss of a major campaign, a defeat as serious to the democracies as the fall of western Europe in the spring...
...apparently gathering for another lunge. He was on a line roughly 300 miles above Singapore, but scattered patrols on the east coast, apparently landed from the sea, were within 175 miles. If the Philippines fell, many transports busy there might soon be available to the Japanese for reinforcing Malaya...
Mistakes. The British had not scorched the earth as they should have. At Penang, strategic island base on Malaya's east coast, they had destroyed military establishments in the withdrawal, but had left warehouses full of rubber, several months' supplies of rice, and-incredible blunder-all utilities working like a charm. At week's end the unscorched Penang radio repeatedly broadcast: "Hello, Singapore, how do you like our bombings...
...moved hundreds of the deadliest craft ever devised: perhaps 500 submarines playing their part in the greatest naval war in history. Manned by the picked men of seven navies, they lay in wait for the kill from the South China Sea to the California Coast, from Long Island to Malaya...