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After 40 years, Japan had lost the rugged peninsula (as big as Great Britain) from which she had launched her Co-Prosperity Sphere. Soviet Russia had be come a power in the empire outpost which Tsarist Russia coveted...
...trained Chinese armies were readied to reoccupy key cities as soon as the Japanese gave up. U.S. air forces stood by to transport them. The Central Government appointed mayors for Canton, Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Peiping, Tientsin and a governor (General Hsiung Shi-hui) for Manchuria's strategic Kwantung Peninsula...
...Spread along the ultimate peninsula, of Southeast Asia, from southern Burma through the Kra Isthmus to Malaya, were perhaps 100,000 Japanese, including two divisions for the defense of Singapore...
...Indonesia and Melanesia were 300,000 enemy troops, some already heavily engaged by the Australians, some just trying to live. It was a question how clearly the voice of surrender would be heard on the jungled slopes of the Prince Alexander Range in New Guinea, or on the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul...
...Seventh Fleet stood in to Brunei Bay in northwest Borneo. Off went the landing craft, with less than a division of hardbitten, hard-swearing Australian veterans. One week later, with spectacular ease, they had conquered a major harbor, three airfields, three towns, two islands and a peninsula. With minor losses, they had given General Douglas MacArthur a military base midway between Manila and Singapore, virtually choked off the South China Sea and opened new fields for Allied bombers. After two visits ashore, the General exulted: "Rarely was such a strategic prize obtained at such a low cost of lives...