Malayan campaign
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The <entity_1> was a <entity_0> fought by Allied and Axis forces in <entity_6>, from <entity_3> – <entity_4> during the Second World War. In 1937, Major-General William Dobbie, General Officer Commanding (GOC) <entity_6> (1935–39), looked at <entity_6>'s defences and reported that during the monsoon season, from October to March, landings could be made by an enemy on the east coast and bases could be established in Siam (<entity_5>). <entity_5> was seen to be under threat from this build-up as well as <entity_6>. British strategists had foreseen the possibility of <entity_5>'s Kra isthmus being used by the Japanese to invade <entity_6>. The <entity_1> began when the 25th Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, invaded <entity_6> on <entity_3>. Japanese forces also landed at Pattani and Songkhla in <entity_5>, then moved south across the <entity_5>-Malayan border to attack the western portion of <entity_6>. A replacement for Operation Matador, named Operation Krohcol, was implemented on <entity_3> but the Indian troops were easily defeated by the Royal Thai Police and the Japanese 5th Division which had landed in Pattani Province, <entity_5>. Prior to the invasion on <entity_3> there were 75 Allied aircraft stationed in northern <entity_6> and 83 in Singapore. The Genzen Air Group was a key participant in the sinking of the British capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off the coast of <entity_6> on 10 <entity_3>, losing one aircraft and its crew during the battle. On 22 <entity_4>, bombers from the Genzan Air Group attacked Kallang Airport in Singapore, and subsequently provided air support for Japanese offensives in <entity_6> including the landings at Endau. The defeat of Allied troops at the Battle of Jitra by Japanese forces, supported by tanks moving south from <entity_5> on 11 <entity_3> and the rapid advance of the Japanese inland from their Kota Bharu beachhead on the north-east coast of <entity_6> overwhelmed the northern defences. <entity_5> was then allowed by the Japanese to resume sovereignty over several sultanates in northern <entity_6>, thus consolidating their occupation. On <entity_4>, the last organised Allied forces left <entity_6>, and Allied engineers blew a 70 ft (21 m)-wide hole in the causeway that linked Johore and Singapore; a few stragglers would wade across over the next few days. In less than two months, the Battle for <entity_6> had ended in comprehensive defeat for the Commonwealth forces and their retreat from the <entity_2> to the fortress of Singapore.
['military campaign']