Word: malayans
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...silver night, the men and their machines were on their way across. Not a single enemy plane was overhead to make things messy. The men were of many nations-Australians, Scottish Highlanders, English regulars, bearded Sikhs, wiry Gurkhas, Malayan militiamen-but they were of one mind. They had their single mind on the question of how to hold this crafty enemy...
...they knew that the improvising invaders, having made landings all the way down the Malayan coast, would try night landings on the fringes of Singapore Island...
Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...
...Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham saw the need for scattered airfields all up & down the Malayan jungle, had them built, ordered their protection. Judging by the speed with which some of those airfields fell, the Army did not jump to its task with quite enough eagerness. The Repulse and the Prince of Wales are monuments, on the floor of the sea, to the Far Eastern Fleet's inability to comprehend the meaning of the word cooperation...
...founder of the city. Besides the great ramshackle Raffles Hotel, Singapore boasts a Raffles Place, a Raffles Institution, a Raffles Library, a Raffles Museum, a Raffles statue-but not a Raffles soul. There were not many men in this Singapore who would bother, as Raffles did, to learn the Malayan language at 25, to undertake...