Invasion of Malaya

"The Japanese 25th Army invaded Malaya from Indochina, moving into northern Malaya and Thailand by amphibious assault on 8 December 1941." - (Wikipedia, Battle Of Singapore)

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor to deter the US from intervening in Southeast Asia. The Japanese forces in Thailand also continued to go to the Malaya and attack.
The Malaya resisted the Japanese with also the help from Singapore allies.
However, the Japanese concentrated their assault more and began to overrun them.




With the British allowing themselves to be flanked and overrun.

The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force was more numerous, and better trained than the second-hand assortment of untrained pilots and inferior allied equipment remaining in Malaya, Borneo and Singapore. Their superior fighters—especially the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero—helped the Japanese to gain air supremacy. The Allies had no tanks and few armoured vehicles, which put them at a severe disadvantage.

The remaining Malaya forces had left after too much assault from Japanese forces and left them to be able to pass through and get to Singapore.

Website URL : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore
Date accessed : Feb 17 2013