“DEC 7,1941. A date that will live on in infamy.” Most people are probably familiar with this famous line, delivered by United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the Empire of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
While that date does indeed deserve it’s reputation, a lot less people are aware of a similar event that happened around the same time. Dec 8,1941, was the beginning of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, with a Japanese invasion fleet landing at Kota Baru, Kelantan.
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