Japanese Occupation Of Malaya Timeline
1957 federation of malaya becomes independent from britain with tunku abdul rahman as prime.
Japanese occupation of malaya timeline. Kota bharu capital of kelantan state on malaysia s northeast coast was in 1941 the royal air force s raf and royal australian. Kota bharu airport was occupied in the morning. The japanese attack pearl harbor hawaii. Sungai patani butterworth and alor star airports were captured on 9 december 1941.
Lieutenant general a e percival general officer commanding malaya at the time of the japanese attack photo imperial war museum london general sir archibald wavell c in c far east and major general f k simmons goc singapore fortress inspecting soldiers of the 2nd gordon highlanders singapore 3 november 1941. At that point in time it seemed that the japanese were surging south while the british could do nothing. Timeline of the battle for singapore. The japanese invasion of malaya began just after midnight on 8 december 1941 local time before the attack on pearl harbor it was the first major battle of the pacific war and was fought between ground forces of the british indian army and the empire of japan.
This battle marked the official start of the pacific war and the start of the japanese occupation of malaya. 1942 45 japanese occupation. A summarized timeline of the japanese malayan campaign beginning from the attack on pearl harbor to the fall of malaya. During the japanese occupation in malaya for 3 years all the local people were controlled by japanese and they had suffer a lot at that time as the policies brings social economic and political impact to the life of malaya.
Japanese occupation in malaya it was during this period that the malays are united as malay and the reason was because they started to view each other as malaya wide community and not as a. Simultaneously japanese troops in southeast asia land in patani thailand singora now known as songkla thailand and kota bharu malaysia. The occupation commenced with imperial japanese army landings at padang pak amat beach kota bharu just after midnight on 8 december 1941 triggering a ferocious battle with the british indian army an hour before the attack on pearl harbor this battle marked the official start of the pacific war and the start of the japanese occupation of malaya. On 31 january 1942 the causeway joining singapore to malaya was blown up dissolving singapore s link with malaysia as a last attempt to stop the japanese.