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Japanese invasion of Malaya (1941)
On the Road to WW2 map as “The Kota Bharu landings”
8 Dec 1941 — Japanese troops storm ashore in British Malaya an hour BEFORE Pearl Harbor, across the date line. The southern advance — oil, rubber, tin — begins.
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- Pearl Harbor and US entry into WW2 (chapter 12 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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