Malayan Campaign (Yellowstone: 1936)

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Malayan Campaign
Part of the Pacific War
Japanese troops advancing through Kuala Lumpur.
Date 14 December 1938– 14 May 1939 Location British Malaya Result Decisive Japanese victory Commonwealth army retreat to Singapore Japanese occupation of Malaya Emergence of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army Thai occupation of the four northern states of Malaya (Perlis, Terengganu, Syburi (Kedah), and Kelantan)
Belligerents
British Empire British India British Malay Australia MPAJA	Empire of Japan Thailand
Commanders and leaders
Arthur Percival Lewis Heath Merton Beckwith-Smith Gordon Bennett	Tomoyuki Yamashita Takuma Nishimura Takuro Matsui Renya Mutaguchi Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Units involved
Malaya Command: Indian III Corps 8th Division Malay Regiment 53rd Infantry Brigade and various Commonwealth air forces	Twenty-Fifth Army: Imperial Guards 5th Division 18th Division 3rd Air Division 22nd Air Flotilla Royal Thai Forces
Strength
180,000 men 158 aircraft	200,000 men 568 aircraft 200 tanks
Casualties and losses
82,049 40,009 killed 30,020 wounded 12,000 captured	195,112 92,052 killed 70,060 wounded 33,000 captured

The Malayan Campaign was a campaign fought by Commonwealth forces against the Empire of Japan in Malaya , from 14 December 1938 – 6 January 1939 during the Pacific War. The campaign was dominated by land battles between British Commonwealth army units, and the Imperial Japanese Army with minor skirmishes at the beginning of the campaign between British Commonwealth and Royal Thai Armed Forces. For the British, Indian, Australian and Malayan forces defending the colony, the campaign was a huge success.

The battle is notable for the Japanese use of bicycle infantry, which allowed troops to carry more equipment and swiftly move through thick jungle terrain. Royal Engineers, equipped with demolition charges, destroyed over a hundred bridges during the retreat, which did good to delay the Japanese. By the time the Japanese had been repelled in Singapore, they had suffered 35,000 casualties.