Word: malayas
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Yamashita's experience in North China was rigorous preparation for his recent labors. He commanded on the tangled, hilly Shansi front and had to combat the best of China's guerrillas. He used many of their war tricks in Malaya...
...Force which so far has had its way in the southwest Pacific. It is not the Air Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving them cleanly home. In Malaya this Air Force confused and broke the British, made their calm confidence look like childish complacency...
...Malaya was lost by default, as some correspondents reported last week, Burma was not. British and Indian troops fought for every bridgehead, constantly counterattacking. British, Indian, Australian, Canadian and U.S. pilots bombed and strafed the Japs. They met noticeably fewer Japanese planes; the Japanese apparently had sickened of their huge air losses in the first weeks of invasion...
...ships, as they lay for ten months in the harbor of Brest, no fewer than 110 times; they had begun to think of them as almost fixed targets. And it hurt badly to think back on the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, lost to a lesser force off Malaya...
...Bitter. Although the disastrous rout in Malaya held the gravest military consequences for the United Nations, it would not, by itself, have provoked the violent political storm which began raging in Britain at week's end. The escape of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, however, was an altogether different cup of tea. Hitler could not have concocted a bitterer brew. Any reverse at sea makes an Englishman gulp. But the violation of the English Channel by a mediocre Nazi fleet made the British definitely...