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Bloody Shambles, The First Comprehensive Account of the Air Operations over South-East Asia December 1941 – April 1942 Volume One: Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore. London: Grub Street Press. (1992) ISBN 978-0-948817-50-2; Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II, London, 2005.
During World War II, most U.S. black soldiers still served only in maintenance or service positions, or in segregated units. Because of troop shortages during the Battle of the Bulge, Eisenhower decided to integrate the service for the first time. [184] This was an important step toward a desegregated United States military.
A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II. This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
Below, the events of World War II have the "WW2" acronym 6–8 January – WW2: Battle of Slim River; 11 January – WW2: Kuala Lumpur falls to the Imperial Japanese Army; 14 January – WW2: Battle of Gemas; 14–22 January – WW2: Battle of Muar; 23 January – WW2: Parit Sulong Massacre; 26–27 January – WW2: Battle off Endau
An expedition was mounted October 1946 by the Number 46 War Graves Unit to recover and rebury all personnel they could locate. [80] The main national war memorial is the National Monument in Kuala Lumpur. This memorial commemorates those who served in both World War Two and the Malayan Emergency that followed the war.
Battle of Gurun; Battle of Kota Bharu; Battle of Muar; Fall of Singapore; Battle of Slim River; Bombing of Kuala Lumpur (1945) Battle of Borneo (1941–1942) Borneo campaign; Borneo campaign (1945) order of battle; British Far East Command; British Military Administration (Malaya)
The Battle of Kuala Lumpur was a battle between Japanese invasion forces and the British forces in Kuala Lumpur, in the then capital of the Federated Malay States, a British protectorate. Starting in late December Japanese began bombing the city;ground forces reached the city by 11 January 1942.
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.