indian and australian troops helped british troops defend malaya and singapore.
indian and australian troops helped british troops defend malaya and singapore.
who helped british troops defend malaya and singapore?
indian and australian troops
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for much of the interwar period, britain's defensive plan for malaya had centred on the dispatch of a naval fleet to the newly built singapore naval base. accordingly, the army's role was to defend singapore and southern johore. while this plan had seemed adequate when the nearest japanese base had been away, the outbreak of war in europe, combined with the partial japanese occupation of the northern part of french indochina and the signing of the tripartite pact in september 1940, had underlined the difficulty of a sea-based defence. instead it was proposed to use the raf to defend malaya, at least until reinforcements could be dispatched from britain. this led to the building of airfields in northern malaya and along its east coast and the dispersal of the available army units around the peninsula to protect them.
arthur percival