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Summary:Three months after its attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 Japanese forces had swept down through South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Singapore had fallen. Australia was threatened with invasion. In Burma the Japanese pushed the British right back to the Indian frontier. More than three years of Jungle fighting and a stubborn defence of the frontier itself were t
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Location:WORLD WAR II
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