Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homebodies, the field where U.S. soldiers were giving their lives (see p. 16) seemed the most urgent. But to the Allied strategists, there was no more important battlefield than Malaya. On that battlefield Singapore was at stake. At Singapore the future of the Allies in Asia was at stake...
...Japanese failed to better their positions anywhere in the Pacific except for a slight advance in Malaya, and from Tokyo itself the Japanese were warned that enemy submarines menaced Nipponese home waters...
American forces struck hard at Japanese isolated in the Philippines yesterday, British troops stoutly defended Malaya and Hong Kong and in Russia a great Soviet offensive on a 1,000-mile front became a battle of "extermination" against retreating Nazis...
...Malaya supplies 75% of world tin; U.S. stocks total some 140,000 tons, more than a year's supply. Bolivia, source of 16% of world tin, can never quite supply all the U.S. needs...
...vessels, marshal them into convoys, hold the fast ones down to the pace of the slow, expose them to damage, load and unload them in bombed ports, reroute them may reduce the efficiency of an already inadequate merchant marine by 50%. Most shipping between the U.S. and Malaya, for example, will now go around the Cape of Good Hope. That route is 4,360 miles farther from New York than the route across the Pacific from San Francisco...