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

Episode 286, The Battle of Rebao, Prelude.

Last time, the various invasions of Operation No. 1, the Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia,

was going better than hoped for.

Thanks to meticulous planning, overwhelming numbers, surprise, luck, and it has to be said,

the ill-prepared defenses of the Allies.

Or rather, that Europe was the priority of those Western powers engaged against the Axis powers.

As we have seen, Thailand acquiesced to Japanese pressure.

Malaya fell, Burma and the Philippines were invested, which will be covered shortly.

Followed by the occupation of Singapore, Hong Kong, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo,

the Maluku Islands, the Cevapis, not to mention, the American possessions further east,

Guam and Wake Island, Midway was bombed, and then Timor fell.

To be sure, New Guinea was on the Japanese Empire's list.

Stationed just above Australia, separated by the Shalotore Strait, it had to come under

Japanese control, in order to, at the very least, project power southward to cut off Australia

from Western help. The oldest known Homo sapiens on New Guinea, or Papua, as parts of the islands

were called, before Westerners arrived, goes back 40,000 years, as people migrated out of Africa.

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