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Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast.

Episode 272. Courage yet defeat.

The Battle of Kempar.

Last time Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Heath and Major General Murray Leon

seemed to be in a contest as to who could pull back the 11th Indian Infantry Division,

the fastest and the furthest, along the Malayan West Coast.

Either way, as the 9th Indian Infantry Division was being handled in the same rough manner

on the East Coast, one week into the fighting, December 16th, the northern half of Malaya had been lost.

The concern now for G.O.C. Percival was the Japanese air arm, now close enough to bomb Singapore

directly from their newly conquered territory.

That element alone could be the beginning of the end, and much sooner than air chief Marshall,

Sir Robert Popham, Churchill, and the war cabinet had counted on, or at least hoped for.

The plan now, well really the only option left open to Percival was to hope the Indian Third

Corps could do what it had not been able to do since the enemy had landed.

That is, stymie any further advancement south.

If this was possible, and if the reinforcing convoy arrived as expected in January,

then perhaps there was a chance this thing could be dragged out.

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