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| Welcome to the Asian Mainland Timeline! |
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This timeline covers all the political and military events that occurred on the Asia mainland between the years 1940 and 1945. The countries encompassed within the timeline are India, Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indochina, China, Manchuria, Korea and the USSR.
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"Singapore... could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men... its not considered possible that the
Japanese...would embark on such a mad enterprise. Winston Churchill 1940 |
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 Lt General Arthur Percival
 General Tomoyuki Yamashita
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The Type 95 light tank carried a four man crew and was armed with a 37mm main gun and a pair of machine guns.
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