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ARTICLES RELATED TO Battle of Malaya - Background | | | |  Battle of Malaya - Background: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Malaya - BackgroundBetween the wars, Britain's military strategy in the Far East were undermined by a lack of attention and funding. Her plans relied primarily on the stationing of a strong fleet at the Singapore Naval Base in the event of any enemy hostility, both to defend Britain's Far Eastern possessions and the route to Australia. However, the expected arrival time of the Royal Navy, should Malaya or Singapore be threatened, was extended from weeks to months, until finally, by the time war broke out in Europe in 1939, it was evid ...
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| | | | Battle of Malaya - Background: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Malaya - The Retreat to Singapore On January 31 the last organised Allied forces left Malaya, and Allied engineers blew a hole, 70 feet (20 metres) wide, in the causeway that link Johore and Singapore (a few stragglers would wade across over the next few days). Japanese raiders and infiltrators, often disguised as Singaporean civilians, began to cross the Straits of Johor in inflatable boats soon afterwards.
In less than two months, the Battle for Malaya had ended in comprehensive defeat for the Commonwealth forces an ...
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| | | | Battle of Malaya - Background: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Malaya - The Advance down the Peninsula The defeat of British and Indian troops at Jitra by Japanese forces, supported by tanks moving south from Siam on December 11, 1941 and the rapid advance of the Japanese inland from their Kota Bharu beachhead on the north-west coast of Malaya overwhelmed the northern defenses. Without any real naval presence, the British were unable to challenge Japanese naval operations of the Malayan coast - operations which proved invaluable to the invading army. With virtually no remaining British airplanes, the Japanese also had mastery of the skies, leaving the Common ...
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