BERUAS: Some 500 aircraft crashed in the country during World War II, says Armed Forces Museum head analyst Kapt Muhammad Zuraiman Abdul Ghani. He said these would be British, Japanese and ...

Japanese: 25th Army under General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Outcome: The Japanese advanced rapidly through Malaya to Singapore and took both with minimal casualties, capturing thousands of Allied troops ...

culminating in the British surrender of Singapore to the Japanese. It is the first of a two-part series titled “Malayan War Record” (Mare Senki; マレー戦記).

Colonel Chapman served in the British Army in Malaya. During World War II (1941-1945), Chapman and his compatriots joined forces with the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) to form the Malayan People ...

In the late 1940s, as Malaya was rebuilding from the aftermath of World War II, there was a thirst for entertainment that celebrated local talent. Responding to a survey revealing a love for local ...