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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.
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War, (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya and Commonwealth (British Empire).
Normal pre-war rice consumption had been 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 pounds (570 to 680 g) per day. In April 1946 the rice ration in Singapore for an adult male was reduced from 4 to 3 pounds (1.8 to 1.4 kg) per week; in mid-August it was further reduced to 1 + 2 ⁄ 3 pounds (760 g) per week, where it remained until an increase in December.
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
Perak War: 1875–1876: British Malaya / Borneo: 1874–1946: Jementah Civil War: 1879: ... World War II. Japanese occupation of Malaya / Borneo. 1941–1945: Malayan ...
The Battle of Ramree Island (Burmese: ရမ်းဗြဲကျွန်း တိုက်ပွဲ), also known as Operation Matador, took place from 14 January to 22 February 1945, in the Second World War as part of the offensive on the Southern Front in the Burma campaign and was conducted by the XV Indian Corps.
The Malaya Command was a formation of the British Army formed in the 1920s for the coordination of the defences of British Malaya, which comprised the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States. [1]
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.