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'''Malaya''' was a [[colony]] of the [[British Empire]] in [[Far East]] [[Asia]]. | '''Malaya''' was a [[colony]] of the [[British Empire]] in [[Far East]] [[Asia]]. (After independence, it was renamed [[Malaysia]].) | ||
In [[December]] [[1941]], shortly after [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|the attack]] on the [[United States of America|American]] naval base at [[Pearl Harbor]] by the [[Japanese Empire]], [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[India]]n [[British Army|forces]] were moved into Malaya in response of [[Japan]]ese [[Soldier|troop]] build-up in [[French Indochina]]. | In [[December]] [[1941]], shortly after [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|the attack]] on the [[United States of America|American]] naval base at [[Pearl Harbor]] by the [[Japanese Empire]], [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[India]]n [[British Army|forces]] were moved into Malaya in response of [[Japan]]ese [[Soldier|troop]] build-up in [[French Indochina]]. | ||
Shortly after, the Japanese [[Far East Campaign|invaded Malaya]] and fiercely pushed the British down through Mayala into [[Singapore]], which subsequently [[Surrender|capitulated]]. [[Prem Barsar]] was in Mayala at the time of the [[invasion]] and wrote about the fighting he had been involved in in a [[letter]] dated [[30 January]] [[1942]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Letters from the Front (short story)|Letters from the Front]]'') | Shortly after, the Japanese [[Far East Campaign|invaded Malaya]] and fiercely pushed the British down through Mayala into [[Singapore]], which subsequently [[Surrender|capitulated]]. [[Prem Barsar]] was in Mayala at the time of the [[invasion]] and wrote about the fighting he had been involved in in a [[letter]] dated [[30 January]] [[1942]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Letters from the Front (short story)|Letters from the Front]]'') | ||
[[Mike Smith]] had served in Malaya for eighteen months not long before the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. He'd seen people killed in action. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | |||
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