Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, big only in their fury, fought their way down Malaya on a miniature scale. The little men, in light shorts, open shirts and rubber sneakers, or with bare feet, were apparently insufficient targets for the British. As they had used tiny, steel-saving two-man subs at Pearl Harbor, they used in Malaya tiny one-man tanks and two-man gun carriers. The British even said that their doctors cut miniature Japanese bullets out of miniature British wounds...
...brilliant, visionary strategist General MacArthur knew that it was more important to hold the Malaya-Singapore-Netherlands Indies line, that if necessary the Philippines would have to be sacrificed. But MacArthur is quite capable of flouting the laws of war. The High Command might decide by the rules that the Philippines should be given up. But the last man to be convinced of that fact would probably be Douglas MacArthur. And if the islands should be lost, the U.S. would probably lose its best fighting general with them...
...Established landings in northern Malaya and northern Luzon which promised to provide air bases (especially good in Malaya...
...Next Steps. To secure a quick knockout in the South Pacific the Imperial Fleet has a hard and dirty way ahead. It must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...
...torpedoes launched by aircraft has been developed by both Britain and the U.S., but Pearl Harbor and the sinkings off Malaya (see p. 20) testify to the skill with which Admiral Yamamoto has taken up the idea. This idea, extraordinarily enough considering what it has accomplished, has not been used with any great success by the German Air Force, which prefers dive-bombers...