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Battles and operations of World War II involving Japan

  • Borneo campaignOn the 16th of December 1941, Japanese troops landed at Sarawak. A single battalion of British Indian troops fought a delaying action over several weeks.
  • Malayan campaignIn 1941, the Japanese military found itself trapped by its own expansion. Four years of fighting in China had drained resources, and oil imports from the…
  • Burma campaignIn January 1942, the Japanese Fifteenth Army under Lieutenant General Shōjirō Iida moved into northern Thailand and launched an attack over jungle-clad…