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	Battle of Malaya at AllExperts
		The Battle of Malaya was a conflict between a Commonwealth army, comprised of British, Indian, Australian and Malays from the Federated Malay States forces, and the Japanese Imperial Army from December 8 1941 until January 31 1942 during the Second World War.
		The battle, centred around the Gemensah Bridge, proved costly for the Japanese, who suffered up to 600 casualties but the bridge itself, which had been demolished during the fighting, was repaired within six hours.
		As the Japanese attempted to outflank the Australians to the west of Gemas, one of the bloodiest battles of the campaign began on January 15 on the peninsula's the West coast near the Muar River.
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	Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was a Battle of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		It was fought on December 8, 1941 at the airfield of Prachuap Khiri Khan in Thailand, on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand along the Kra Isthmus.
		At around 03:00 on December 8, 1941, the 2nd Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment of the 55th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army, under the command of Major Kisoyoshi Utsunomiya, began landing troops at Prachuab Khiri Khan.
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		In 1939, the German and British fleets engaged in the Battle of the River Plate in South America and a German ship was disabled and had to be scuttled because of the battle.
		The Luftwaffe was unable to defeat the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and gain the air superiority needed to invade Britain.
		In the spring, the Wehrmacht was able to restore the front line and make a successful riposte in the Second Battle of Kharkov but their offensive at the massive Battle of Kursk (July 1943) was so unsuccessful that the Red Army were able to counterattack and regain the ground previously lost.
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	Informat.io on Battle Of Malaya
		The Battle of Malaya was a conflict between a Commonwealth army, comprised of British, Indian, Australian and Malays from the Federated Malay States forces, and the Japanese Imperial Army from December 8 1941 until January 31 1942 during the Second World War.
		The battle, centred around the Gemensah Bridge, proved costly for the Japanese, who suffered up to 600 casualties but the bridge itself, which had been demolished during the fighting, was repaired within six hours.
		As the Japanese attempted to outflank the Australians to the west of Gemas, one of the bloodiest battles of the campaign began on January 15 on the peninsula's the West coast near the Muar River.
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		The battle of the Atlantic lasted for the majority of the war and was a decisive theatre of conflict.
		In the Battle of the Caucasus, fought in the late summer and fall of 1942, the Axis forces captured the oil fields.
		In late August and early September, while battle raged on Guadalcanal, an amphibious Japanese attack on the eastern tip of New Guinea was met by Australian forces in the Battle of Milne Bay.
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	Pacific War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the Battle of the Java Sea, in late February and early March, the Japanese Navy inflicted a resounding defeat on the main ABDA naval force, under Admiral Karel Doorman.
		The result was the indecisive Battle of Coral Sea, the first of the great carrier duels as the two fleets never came within sight.
		Battle of Leyte Gulf was an attempt by the Japanese to repel or destroy the Allied forces stationed on Leyte after the preceding Allied invasion in the Battle of Leyte.
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	Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was an early engagement of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		The small garrison of pilots and ground crew was reinforced by members of the constabulary and Yuwachon Thaharn (a quasi-military teenage auxiliary) who had managed to escape from the town of Prachuab Khiri Khan after the Japanese had captured the telegraph office and the police station.
		The following morning, the exhausted Thais received a telegram from the Ministry of the Interior, brought in by a postman during a lull in the battle.
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		The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was an early engagement of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		It was fought on December 8, 1941 at the airfield of Prachuap Khiri Khan in Thailand, on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand along the Kra Isthmus.
		The small garrison of pilots and ground crew was reinforced by members of the constabulary and Yuwachon Thaharn (a quasi-military teenage auxiliary) who had managed to escape from the town of Prachuab Khiri Khan after the Japanese had captured the telegraph office and the police station.
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	Pacific War information - Search.com
		January saw the invasions of Burma, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the capture of Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Rabaul.
		At the Battle of the Java Sea, in late February and early March, the Japanese Navy inflicted a resounding defeat on the main ABDA naval force, under Admiral Karel Doorman.
		The result was the indecisive Battle of Coral Sea, the first of the great carrier duels as the two fleets never came within sight.
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	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of Britain and gain the air superiority needed to invade Britain.
		Battle of Kursk (July 1943) was so unsuccessful that the Red Army were able to counterattack and regain the ground previously lost.
		Battle of the Coral Sea thwarted a Japanese naval attack on
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		There are several main causes of this conflict, most important being unforeseen consequences of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, and of the Great Depression, the worldwide economic disaster gave rise to nationalism and militarism.
		Meanwhile the geography of the Europe was changed: Soviet Union occupied Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (June, 1940), and annexed Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania (June 28 1940).
		In late August and early September, while battle raged on Guadalcanal, Australian forces fought off a Japanese amphibious attack on the eastern tip of New Guinea at Milne Bay, the first conclusive defeat suffered by Japanese land forces.
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		In 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee engaged British naval forces in the Battle of the River Plate in South America.
		Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and gain the air superiority needed to invade Britain.
		Second Battle of Kharkov but their offensive at the massive Battle of Kursk (July 1943) was so unsuccessful that the Red Army were able to counterattack and regain the ground previously lost.
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	World War II - Famous Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives and large percentages of countries' gross national product.
		The lead-up to the war stretches back to build-ups and smaller regional wars of the 1930s, then slowly drawing in more countries and culminating in massive battles of millions of people in regions across the globe in the first half of the 1940s.
		The war set the stage for postwar alliances with large shifts, the allied coalition split with much of Eastern Europe and the USSR become part of the Warsaw Pact.
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	free download ebooks - Pacific war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hard-fought battles at Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa, and others resulted in horrific casualties on both sides, but finally produced a Japanese retreat.
		- 1941 - 12-22 – 1942 - 05-06 Battle of the Philippines (1941-42)
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	Prachuab The Summary For This English Page Contains Characters That Cannot Be Correctly Displayed In This Lan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prachuab Khiri Khan hotels, hotel reservations in Prachuab Khiri Khan, Thailand, Southeast Asia by all-hotels(tm) - travel and lodgings worldwide.
		Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was a battle of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
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	South-East Asian theatre of World War II - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Following a token resistance at the battles of Prachuab Khirikhan, Nakorn Sri Thammarat, Chumporn, Songkhla, and Pattani, the government of Thailand formally allied itself with Japan on December 21.
		Following the destruction of the ABDACOM forces in the battles around Java in February and March, the Japanese sortied into the Indian Ocean to destroy British seapower there and support the invasion of Burma.
		After the departure of the main battle forces the Indian Ocean was left with escort carriers and older battleships as the mainstay of its naval forces.
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		After being driven out of Malaya, Allied forces in Singapore attempted to resist the Japanese during the Battle of Singapore, but surrendered to the Japanese on February 15 1942; about 130,000[1] Indian, Australian and British troops became prisoners of war.
		The Doolittle Raid in April was a token but morale-boosting air attack on Japan, and although the Allied navies were narrowly defeated in tactical terms at the Battle of the Coral Sea, it still managed to derail a Japanese naval attack on Port Moresby, New Guinea.
		The crucial Battle of Midway followed in June: the fortunes of war could easily have given either side the victory, but Japanese naval aviation suffered a devastating defeat from which it never recovered.
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	World War II - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		World War II World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives and large percentages of countries' gross national product.
		The lead-up to the war stretches back to build-ups and smaller regional wars of the 1930s, then slowly drawing in more countries and culminating in massive battles of millions of people in regions across the globe in the first half of the 1940s.
		The war set the stage for postwar alliances with large shifts, the allied coalition split with much of Eastern Europe and the USSR become part of the Warsaw Pact.
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	South-East Asian theatre of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January saw the invasions of Burma and the Dutch East Indies and the capture of Manila and Kuala Lumpur.
		Following the destruction of the ABDACOM forces in the battles around Java in February and March, the Japanese sortied into the Indian Ocean to destroy British seapower there and support the invasion of Burma.
		After the departure of the main battle forces the Indian Ocean was left with escort carriers and older battleships as the mainstay of its naval forces.
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	Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At around 03:00 on December 8, 1941, the 2nd Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment of the 55th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army, under the command of Major Kisoyoshi Utsunomiya, began landing troops at Prachuab Khirikhan.
		The small garrison of ground crews and pilots were further reinforced by members of the constabulary and the Yuwachon Thaharn who had managed to escape from the nearby town of Prachuab Khirikhan once the enemy captured the telegraph office and the police station.
		Estimates of Japanese losses by the Thais were put at 217 dead and over 300 wounded, although exact details are not known.
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	World War II
		Though Hitler had no plans for Greece at that time, he was forced to send troops to occupy Greece (since Greece's neutrality was broken) on April of 1941.
		Hitler, expecting the campaign to be over in a few months, had not equipped their armies for winter fighting.
		In retrospect, Goebbels' Sportpalast speech marks their recognition that total war was a necessary response to the Allies' advances.
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	Pm Thaksin Resigns - Thailand Forum
		This included several amphibious landings at Thailand, such as the Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan, the Thai government quickly agreed to let the Japanese pass through and utilise its military bases in order to strike other Allied possessions in the region, including commencing the Battle of Malaya.
		Pridi refused to sign the declaration of war against Britain and the United States in 1942 and, as a result, was effectively demoted by Phibun to take on the figurehead role of Regent.
		Earlier premier's Secretary General Prommin Lertsuridej said that the premier's audience was a routine visit every six weeks but after leaving the palace an urgent arrangement had been made for the premier to appear on TV pool at 8.30 p.m.
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	History of Thailand - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On December 8, 1941, a few hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier.
		The Japanese landed at Bangkok and at several locations along the east coast of southern Thailand, such as the Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan where they engaged the Thai army for six to eight hours before the Thai army determined it would be impossible to defend the kingdom.
		Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed an alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand get back territories lost to the British and French colonial powers and Thailand undertook to assist Japan in her war against the Allies.
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	WikiMobs - List of battles 1901-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The purpose of the battle is to relieve pressure off of Valencia?
		It is soon to become the descisive battle of the war, and a Republican defeat.
		the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Soviets; bloodiest battle in history, 1.8 millions dead approx.
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	History of Thailand information - Search.com
		On December 8, 1941, a few hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier.
		The Japanese landed at Bangkok and at several locations along the east coast of southern Thailand, such as the Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan where they engaged the Thai army for six to eight hours before the Thai army determined it would be impossible to defend the kingdom.
		Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed an alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand get back territories lost to the British and French colonial powers and Thailand undertook to assist Japan in her war against the Allies.
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	AardvarkArticles.net - History - World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There are several main causes of this conflict, most important being unforeseen consequences of the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War and of economic Great Depression which gave rise to nationalism and militarism throughout the world.
		In the spring the Wehrmacht was able to restore the front line and make a successful riposte in the Second Battle of Kharkov.
		But their offensive at the massive Battle of Kursk (July 1943) was so unsuccessful that the Red Army was able to counterattack and regain the ground previously lost.
	www.aardvarkarticles.net /history_48/world_war_ii_1062.html (4478 words)

	490th Bomb Squadron - Page 2 - 2Bangkok.com Forum
		The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was a battle of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.
		The small garrison of ground crews and pilots were further reinforced by members of the constabulary and the Yuwachon Thaharn who had managed to escape from the nearby town of Prachuab Khirikhan once the enemy captured the telegraph office and the police station.
		One was positioned by the guest houses on Prachuab Bay, which opened fire on anything that came up the road from the guardhouse.
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	South-East Asian Theatre of World War II - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Japanese forces met stiff resistance from III Corps of the Indian Army, the Australian 8th Division and British units in Malaya, but Japan's superiority in air power, tanks and infantry tactics drove the Allied units back.
		The Japanese Indian Ocean raid was a naval sortie by the Fast Carrier Strike Force of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 31 March to 10 April 1942 against Allied shipping and bases in the Indian Ocean.
		BURMA 1944-1945 Qualification: For operations during the 14th Army's advance from Imphal to Rangoon, the coastal amphibious assaults, and the Battle of Pegu Yomas, August 1944 to August 1945.
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