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  Southeast Asia
     
1941 December 10
 
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Japanese planes sink the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya        
1941 December 28
 
    
Burmese politician Aung San raises a Burma Independence Army in Thailand to support the imminent Japanese invasion of his country       
1942  January
 
    
Aung San's Burma Independence Army enters Burma as part of the Japanese invasion       
1942  January
 
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Before the end of the month the Japanese control the whole of Malaya      
1942  February
 
   
An Indian National Army is formed among Indian soldiers captured by the Japanese, with the purpose of evicting the British from India      
1942  February 15
 
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Singapore falls to the continuing Japanese onslaught in southeast Asia      
1942  May
 
    
After losing the Philippines to the Japanese, Douglas MacArthur declares 'I shall return'       
1942  May
 
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Burma becomes the last in the series of important southeast Asian territories to fall into Japanese hands      
1942  May
 
    
William Slim gets the remaining British forces back to India from Burma, in a fighting withdrawal that lasts two months       
1943  February 9
 
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Orde Wingate and his Chindits launch a guerrilla campaign behind the Japanese lines in Burma