Malaya 1941!

Kota Bahru Landings Battle Report (page 2)

 

A 2nd Jap platoon clears the wire and charges a British pill box!

A British bren carrier moves forward in an attempt to retake a bunker.

More Japs arrive

The Japs charge the Bren carrier and continue their advance.

The second bunker is taken!

The final bunker falls.  It is 6am, 8 December 1941 and the Japs have secured their first beachheads on the Malay Peninsula at Kota Bahru, Singora and Patani....

 

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