Word: malayas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...British had sworn to scorch the earth of Malaya, but the job was badly done. They scarcely singed the edges, left many a handsome prize for the oncoming Jap. U.S. Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, thought he could see the reason for the British failure: ignorance and insufficient explosives. He ordered an immediate training program to acquaint every combat unit under his command with the ins-&-outs of demolition...
...than in the Pacific. In France or Norway the Allies, at least at the start, would find defending forces weakened by the Russian campaign's demands on Hitler (see p. 23). They also would find welcoming, Nazi-hating populations, instead of the uncertain, imperialized hordes of the Indies, Malaya, India. In Britain the Allies had their one concentration of land and air force in sufficient strength to strike decisively. In Ireland the U.S. had the beginnings of such a force-a force which, if quickly and strongly reinforced, could be turned from just one more dabble...
...proposes to defend Australia for two reasons: 1) to keep open at least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...