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Endnotes for Chapter Eight, The 'Driving Charge':
Page 162: 2nd paragraph: "to open the route to central Malaya"
1. SCSC, Outline of the Malayan Campaign; JM, Number
107, Malaya Invasion Naval Operations; Number 54, Malaya Operations
Record; Tsuji, 130-32.
Page 163: Indented quote: "to quickly penetrate artillery positions"
2. SCSC, Outline of the Malayan Campaign.
1st paragraph: "The idea was to keep the defenders on the run."
3. AWM73/65, Japanese Tactical Methods, February 1942;
Tsuji, 183-85; Chippington, 35-37.
Page 164: 1st paragraph: "without serious interference from the
air"
4. JM, Number 55, Southwest Area Air Operations Record
Phase 1; SCSC, Outline of the Malayan Campaign; PRO, AIR23/3577, RAF
Far East log, 13-23 December 1941; WO172/15, GHQ Far East War Diary Appendix 62,
13 December 1941; CAB106/86, Maltby Despatch; Shores et al, 130-46.
Indented quote: "appeared out of union hours as black legs"
5. Tsuji, 128-35; JM, Number 55, Southwest Area Air
Operations Record Phase 1; PRO, CAB106/54, 11th Indian Division
history, ch. 9; CAB106/86, Maltby Despatch; Percival, Despatch; Shores et
al, 141; Frei, 60-62.
Page 165: 1st paragraph: "on an issue likely to become acute"
6. PRO, WO106/2568, Far East War Council minutes, 13-22
December 1941; WO172/15, GHQ Far East War Diary, 12, 15 December 1941; WO172/18,
Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, B 4, H 4, 12 December, A 6, 14 December, Q
8, 15 December 1941; WO172/33, III Indian Corps War Diary, 12-13 December 1941;
WO32/15539, Thomas comments on Percival despatch, spring 1947; CAB106/40,
Brooke-Popham Despatch; K. Fedorowich, "The Evacuation of Civilians from
Hong Kong and Malaya/Singapore, 1939-42," in Farrell and Hunter, Sixty Years
On. See also ch. 15 below.
1st paragraph: "taking the island and its prizes unopposed"
7. PRO, WO172/15, GHQ Far East War Diary, 18, 22 December
1941; WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendix, Q 9, 18 December 1941;
WO32/15539, Thomas comments on Percival despatch, spring 1947; Allen, 134;
Smyth, 142; Gough, 80-81, 231.
Indented quote: "b) R. Muda position"
8. PRO, WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, K 6,
N 6, 14 December 1941; CAB106/54, 11th Indian Division history, ch.
7; Percival, Despatch; Warren, 100-04.
Page 166: 1st paragraph: "forcing the whole division to disengage"
9. PRO, WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, B 7,
E 7, 15 December 1941; WO172/100, 2nd East Surreys War Diary, 14-16
December 1941, noted that after retreating from Gurun the battalion had been
reduced from 790 all ranks to 270; WO172/121, 2/9 Jats War Diary, 15 December
1941; CAB106/54, 11th Indian Division history, ch. 7; Warren, 104-08.
2nd paragraph: "the division could make an effective stand"
10. PRO, WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, V
6, 15 December, A 8, 16 December, O 11, 21 December, G 12, 22 December 1941;
CAB106/54, 11th Indian Division history, ch. 9; Percival, Despatch;
Tsuji, 137-40.
Indented quote: "kept in the field as a fighting formation"
11. PRO, WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, X
7, 16 December, K 13, 21 December 1941; WO172/38, 9th Indian Division
G Branch War Diary, 17 December 1941; CAB106/54, 11th Indian Division
history, ch. 9; Percival, Despatch; JM, Number 54, Malaya Operations
Record; Wrigglesworth, 79-82.
Page 167: 1st paragraph: "delay the enemy until it was ready"
12. PRO, WO172/18, Malaya Command War Diary Appendices, O
11, T 11, 21 December, G 12, Q 12, Z 12, 22 December, E 13, JJJ 14, 23 December
1941; WO172/100, 2nd East Surreys War Diary, 16-23 December 1941;
WO172/121, 2/9 Jats War Diary, 16-22 December 1941; CAB106/54, 11th
Indian Division history, ch. 9, Percival, Despatch; Tsuji, 141-47.
Indented quote: "then the damn things started going backwards"
13. SCSC, Outline of the Malayan Campaign; JM,
Number 54, Malaya Operations Record; PRO, CAB106/54, ch. 10; Percival,
Despatch.
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