Word: malayas
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Forever England? The most important fact about the British in World War II cannot be found in communiqués, nor in battle reports, nor in the graves of Malaya, Burma and Africa. It is a military fact, but it is also a human and very British fact. The real, the lasting strength of Britons is in Britain-in the bombed slums of London, the neatly piled rubble of Coventry, the countrysides where U.S. soldiers are now breathing the air of England. On the record of World War II, the one great British success has been in the defense...
...miles of railroad between Nanchang and Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...Japan has not lost her defensive power, her power to defend what she has already won in Malaya, the Indies, the Philippines, and to defend her home islands and cities. Japan's early conquests, the U.S.'s early losses and the barriers which they raised between Japan and the U.S. are as formidable today as they ever were...
...round one, air power had proved it could sink battleships and did so at Pearl Harbor and in the battle for Malaya, when the Prince of Wales and Repulse went down. Surface power's seconds cried "Foul!" but when the second round opened, the battleship was in No. 2 position in the fleet line. The carrier is now the capital ship of the sea (as the U.S. Navy tacitly acknowledged by concentrating its attacks on the Japanese carriers rather than battleships at Midway...
...fall of France. Since those outdated smash hits, he has had no wows to offer. Recently he had to suffer the chagrin of going to the Japanese Embassy to see their supercolossal Nippon's Wild Eagle, showing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the conquest of the Philippines, Malaya, Borneo...