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Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast episode 268 the battle for Malaya and Singapore

When we last left the Pacific theater the island of Borneo with its vast oil reserves

Not to mention impenetrable jungles and headhunters had become the latest Japanese conquest

Still Britain's main hope in a subdued kind of way was force Z

Made up of the only British capital ships in the Pacific at the outbreak of the war the battle cruiser

HMS repulse and the battleship Prince of Wales

But zooming out the British Empire and its Commonwealth troops were in a precarious enough position at the end of 1941

As it was not only in Asia, but in other theaters as well in North Africa

Operation Crusader had just finished which didn't so much defeat Rommel as he was forced back west due to a lack of fuel

Then there was the war in Greece and the Balkans that went the excess way and of course your proper belong to Berlin and Rome

No, it was only in the Middle East that the Allies could feel good about their achievements by keeping substantial amounts of men from India, Australia and New Zealand there and

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