Reply 78# alphawolf
hasil2 malaya sume bwa blik london..aku rase yg digunakan utk tnah melayu plg bnyk 30%,yg laen sume bwk blik london
Buku bertajuk Perjuangan Harimau Malaya menentang Jepun yg diterbitkan oleh Yayasan Perak diusahakan oleh Saudara Mohd. Zamberi A. Malek telah pun terbit dipasaran.Buku ni mengisahkan perjuangan pasukan Force 136 yg tertumpu di Hulu Perak.
Post Last Edit by halimi78 at 20-6-2012 10:48
petikan dr Autralian Gunners in Malaya..
The landing at Kota Bharu, Malaya, on December 7th 1941
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On Saturday, December 6, 1941, during a conference in Manila (the Philippines) between Admiral Thomas C. Hart, the commanding officer of U.S. Asiatic Fleet and Admiral Sir Thomas Phillips, the British naval commander, Far East, an American naval officer entered the room with an important message.
An Australian reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed Hudson from Malaya airfields had discovered the Japanese convoy had departed from Saigon, French Indochina. The plane commander, Flying Officer Ramshaw, reported at first only three ships sailed, followed shortly by at least another 25 transport ships. They were escorted by a battleship, five cruisers and seven destroyers [Ramshaw had mistaken the heavy cruiser for a battleship].In his personal opinion, the ships were headed to neutral Thailand, orto Malaya Peninsula. This was no doubt a clear sign to both admirals that war was close. Both admirals reacted immediately. Four American destroyers in Balikpapan received orders to sail to open sea, while Rear-Admiral Arthur E.F. Palliser, Phillip's Commander-in-Chief of Eastern Fleet,received instructions to order HMS Repulse to cancel its trip to Darwin, Australia, and return to Singapore as quickly as possible.More messages about the Japanese convoy followed. The British planes soon received orders to conduct further reconnaissance flights, but luck that day was on the Japanese side as bad, stormy weather prevented the British planes from taking off. At 7 p.m. the Japanese invasion fleet changed course and traveled north into the Gulf of Siam ...
The main Japanese attack force for the invasion of Malaya, Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita's 25th Army, had sailed from Samah Harbour on Hainan Island on December 4, 1941. Additional ships carrying more troops joined the convoy from Saigon, French Indochina. On both the 6thand 7th of December Lockheed Hudson aircraft flown by No.1 Squadron RAAF, Kota Bharu, and No.8 Squadron RAAF, Kuantan, spotted and attempted to shadow these ships.
On December 7th, a flying boat PBY Catalina of No.205 Squadron RAF, captained by Flying Officer Bedell, was shot down by Japanese aircraft while attempting to monitor the progress of the Japanese fleet. Flying Officer Bedell and his crew became the first Allied casualties of the war with the Empire of Japan. At 10:00 a.m.,the Japanese invasion convoy split up to reach their prearranged landing positions. The war in the Pacific was just about to begin.
At 10.30 p.m., a top Malaya Command conference was called in the Naval Base's War Room in Singapore. Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, commanding officer of all British forces in the Far East hesitated to launch Operation ''Matador" - the capture ofNorthern Thailand. He decided to delay the operation, at least for the night. Shortly after midnight on 7th/8th December, a group of Indian guards at Kota Bharu spotted three large shadows, the IJN transport ships: the Awagisan Maru, the Ayatosan Maru and the Sakura Maru,dropping anchor approximately 3 km off the coast of Kota Bharu. The ships were carrying approximately 5,200 troops of the Takumi Detachment, commanded by Major-General Hiroshi Takumi, who was on board IJN transport Awajisan Maru. The majority of them were already war veterans, with several months of harsh jungle training and battles in China. The force consisted of the 56th Infantry Regiment(Colonel Yoshio Nasu, on board IJN transport Sakura Maru), one mountain artillery battery of the 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment(Lieutenant Colonel Katsutoshi Takasu), the 12th Engineer Regiment(Lieutenant Colonel Ichie Fujii), the 18th Division Signal Unit, one company of the 12th Transport Regiment, one company of the 18thDivision Medical Unit and No. 2 Field Hospital of the 18th Division Medical Unit. They were escorted by a powerful escort fleet (Kota Bharu Invasion Force)under the command of Rear-Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto, consisting of a light cruiser Sendai,destroyers Ayanami, Isonami, Shikinami and Uranami, minesweepers No. 2 and No. 3, and sub-chaser No. 9.Seconds later the guards heard shells passing over their heads. World War II in Pacific had begun, while the Japanese planes from Nagumo's carriers were still flying towards Pearl Harbor. The loading of landing craft began almost as soon as the transports dropped anchor. Rough seas and strong winds hampered the operation and a number of smaller craft capsized. Several Japanese soldiers drowned. Despite these difficulties by 12.45 hours, the first wave of landing craft carrying troops under the command of Colonel Masu were heading for the beach in four lines.Brigadier B.W. Key's 8th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 9thBritish-Indian Infantry Division were the main defending force at Kota Bharu,supported by the 21st Mountain Battery - four 3.7in howitzers(Major J.B. Soper). The 3/17th Dogras at battalion strength had responsibility for a ten mile stretch of beach Pantai Dasar Sabak front which included the Japanese landing site. The troops had mined and wired the beach and built a number of pillboxes. They were supported by the 73rd Field Battery of the 5th Field Regiment, deployed adjacent to the airfield.
Post Last Edit by halimi78 at 20-6-2012 10:44
sambung...........
British artillery immediately began firing along the shore line and out to sea once it became clear the Japanese were coming ashore.Additionally, the Dogra units opened fire on the landing craft once they were illuminated. The defence effort seemed to have been quite stout and the outnumbered Dogras put up a savage resistance. Their MG fortifications on the beach were fiercely firing against the Japanese soldiers landing on the beach. Many Japanese soldiers had fallen,including battalion commander, Major Nakamura, who charged at the enemy position leading his troops. Colonel Masanobu Tsuji recalled in his book about Malaya Campaign: "The enemy pillboxes, which were well prepared reacted violently with such heavy force that our men lying on the beach, half in and half out of the water could not raise their heads". It was not until the Japanese concentrated their attack on the two pillboxes and supporting trenches which dominated the landing area that they began to secure a foothold. In vicious hand to hand fighting the invading troops overcame and wiped out the defenders of these key points. During this action the second wave of attackers were pinned down on the open beach suffering casualties from British artillery fire. However, once the pillboxes had been silenced, these forces were able to move forward and infiltrate the Dogra positions. Despite local counter attacks, the Indian sepoys' position became untenable and the defenders began to fallback.
Having been alerted to the presence of the invasion force just a few miles north of their airfield, the senior air force officers at Kota Bharu sought permission to launch an attack. Once it became clear the Japanese were indeed landing, Hudsons of No.1 Squadron began taking off to bomb the transports. The first wave of seven aircraft, led by Flight Lieutenant Lockwood made the initial attack at about 02.10.Flight Lieutenant O.N. Diamond of No. 1 Squadron selected the largest transport which he dive-bombed. From his own account two 250 lb. bombs released in his first attack scored direct hits and on his second run his remaining two bombs also struck the vessel which was then machine-gunned and left on fire. It was the IJN transport Awajisan Maru(9,794 tons) which was the first Japanese ship of any type to be sunk in World War II by enemy action. No.1 Squadron RAAF continued making bombing runs, some 17 sorties being flown, landing, rearming and taking off again until 05.00. Japanese escorts put up a thick cover of AA fire, shooting down at least two Hudsons and badly damaging three others. One crippled aircraft flown by Flight Lieutenant Leighton-Jonesis reported to have crashed into a fully laiden landing craft. Despite the intensity of the AA fire, the Hudson crews seem to have pressed home their attacks with vigour. All the transports were repeatedly hit with a number of fires being started. Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, a staff officer with Yamashita's Headquarters, described the reports here ceived from Kota Bharu: "Before long enemy planes in formations of two and three began to attack our transports, which soon became enveloped in flame and smoke".
By 04.30 the close escort commander,worried by the damage inflicted by the RAAF, requested permission to withdraw. Major-General Takumi successfully argued that he needed to reinforce his troops ashore and it was not until 06.00 that two transports and the escorts withdrew north. The Awagisan Maru, burning fiercely and destined to be the first Japanese vessel sunk in the war, was too badly damaged to move. About 02:00 hours (on 8December) Kuantan airfield received a signal of the Japanese attempting landings at Kota Bharu. No. 8 Squadron RAAF formed four flights of three Hudsons with the first airborne at 06.30 hours. The Hudsons attacked the IJN transports, covered in smoke at 08.00, but some were damaged, includingA16-43, captained by Flight Lieutenant G. Hitchcock which suffered forty-three bullet holes but returned to Kuantan. Flight Lieutenant"Spud" Spurgeon in A16-41 bombed a ship but crash-landed at Kota Bahru due to damage to the Hudson. Flight Lieutenant Russell Bell had the hydrodraulics made unserviceable by bullets in his Hudson A16-81 and flew it to Seletar from Kota Bahru. Of the 12 aircraft in this attack,five were damaged with one crash landing at Kota Bharu. By this time Japanese fighters, who had been covering the main landings in Thailand,began to arrive and a further attack, this time with RAF Blenheims, proved costly. Also by morning it became clear that despite the efforts of No.1 Squadron the Japanese had successfully landed their invasion force. At 10:30 hours the Japanese forces finally reached Kota Bahru.
By morning Major-General H. Takumi had three full infantry battalions ashore. Brigadier Key attempted a counter attack in force and when this failed he began to fall back. As it became clear during the day that the local airfields could not be held, Key, who had been ordered to fight a battle of denial rather than annihilation, asked for and recieved permission to withdraw.
The Japanese, now backed by freshly landed troops, forced the British-Indian troops to retreat to the Kuala Lipis area and advanced south to capture Kota Bahru (township) by 2 p.m. on the 9th.
Both sides sustained substantial casualties during the battle. There are no reliable records of British losses, but they certainly were high. Accounts of Japanese casualties vary wildly. Louis Allen, quoting Japanese sources, put the number at 500. Of these, 150 were suffered by troops still on board the transports and the remaining 350 were inflicted during the short journey to the shores or on the beach. On the other hand, Colonel Tsuji put in his book the Japanese losses at 320 killed in action and 538 wounded and calls Kota Bharu "one the most violent actions of the Malaya Campaign".
source: "Seventy minutes before Pearl Harbor"
bbrp foto tinggalan pillbox ptahanan kota Bharu 8th Indian Brigade..
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The 1st Hyderabad Indian State Forces defended the Kota Bharu airfield in Kelantan. This pillbox is located near a junction at Pengkalan Chepa road near the airport
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A pillbox located beside the main runway of the Kota Bharu airport.
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This pillbox is located facing the Kelantan River in Kota Bharu town.
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This pillbox is located at Pulau Kundur near Badang beach
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Remembering the war's first battle
By SITI RAHIL
Kyodo News
KOTA BHARU, Malaysia — The Japanese military landing on the coast of a small fishing village in Malaysia's northern Kelantan state on Dec. 8, 1941, is still remembered by an octogenarian who witnessed the event that marked the start of the invasion of Southeast Asia in World War II.
Some seven decades later, the wave-battered shore has been pushed back and the paddy fields, wooden huts and a mosque that used to dot the site where the Japanese landed have now disappeared.
Only villages further inland have survived the onslaught of the waves.
Most of those who witnessed the historic event have since died, but three villagers, including Omar Senik, 82, have survived to tell their story. There are few visible traces of the battle apart from a coconut tree with holes in it caused, locals say, by the fighting.
Omar was 14 when Japanese forces landed at Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan, at around midnight.
The battle of Kota Bharu took place before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of the Pacific War.
But while the attack on Pearl Harbor is famous and commemorated annually, the attack on Kota Bharu is little known and largely forgotten.
Veterans of the war sometimes visited this sleepy village, but most of the time Dec. 8 passes uneventfully.
From Kota Bharu, the Japanese troops spread across the Malay Peninsula and beyond, occupying much of Southeast Asia from 1942 to 1945.
Omar, who now lives alone with his elderly wife in a dilapidated wooden house in the same village, known as Kampung Pulau Pak Amat, said he was mingling as usual with the Indian troops assigned by the British colonial administrators to guard the coast that fateful Monday night when Japanese forces landed around midnight.
"We were crooning Indian love songs that night," he said.
The Japanese warships arrived in the darkness offshore without anyone noticing.
"It was the year end season of heavy monsoon rains and floods, the waves were very fierce and high. The Japanese troops came amid the heavy rains," he said.
When the villagers heard loud booms and the "thud thud thud" of machine guns, everyone at first thought it was only military training.
What ensued was a three-hour battle between the Imperial Japanese Army and the British Indian Army. The Japanese were victorious after the defenders ran out of ammunition, he said.
The British officers had already fled, leaving behind the Indian soldiers.
It was clear the defense was too weak.
There were only about 12 Indian soldiers in a camp on the shore near his village, Omar pointed out, and about eight in another nearby spot keeping sentry in sturdy bulletproof watch bunkers nearer to the coast.
The Indian soldiers had also planted mines and erected barbed wire all along the coast for the previous several months, he said.
But that did not deter the Japanese advance.
He said the Japanese soldiers dug holes under the barbed wire to get through.
"At 3 a.m., we saw the Japanese forces on shore. Everyone, about 30 of us, tried to flee but were ordered by the Japanese soldiers to dig trenches and stay inside to save ourselves, avoid getting shot in the exchange of gunfire," he said.
They had to dig the holes in the sand with their bare hands until they were blistered and bloodied. All the villagers stayed in these holes for about three days, completely overwhelmed with fear and hardly eating, he said.
Omar added that when they finally emerged from the holes, they saw about 380 corpses of Japanese soldiers on the shore, some rotting or looking swollen.
The Indian soldiers had also been killed in the battle, but only three villagers lost their lives.
The Japanese soldiers cremated their dead comrades while handing the dead locals to the villagers to be buried according to custom.
There were also sacks of Japanese rice strewn all over, left behind by the soldiers.
Omar said the Japanese stayed in the area for about two weeks before moving to other locations.
They did not cause many problems for the villagers except to take away their livestock.
He remembers in particular a high-ranking officer, whom he remembers as having been called "Kawasaki," who was in charge of the troops in Kota Bharu and had been seen even before the war riding a bicycle around the villages selling shrimp rice crackers and speaking fluent Malay.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20091210f2.html#.T-FGu5GK35M
Post Last Edit by AdamHood at 3-7-2012 02:05
Ini adalah cerita tentang seorang jawa bernama Ahmad Kormen semasa zaman pemerintahan Jepun.
Ahmad Kormen ini dah tua. Masa jepun datang ke tanah melayu Ahmad Kormen telah ditawarkan untuk berkahwin dengan seorang perempuan. Tetapi ada orang lain minat kepada perempuan tersebut. Masalahnya orang yang minat kat perempuan itu tidak masuk meminang. Apabila Ahmad Kormen berkahwin pemuda itu masih menyimpan dendam kepada Ahmad Kormen.
Pemuda itu telah mencuri papan jepun dan menyembunyikannya di tanah Ahmad Kormen. Jepun pun mencari Ahmad Kormen apabila mengetahui Ahmad Kormen yang mencuri papan jepun.
Ahmad Kormen telah melarikan diri dengan membawa keluarganya kerumah bapa mertuanya. Rumah bapa mertuanya terletak jauh dari rumah Ahmad Kormen. Setelah menghantar keluarganya Ahmad Kormen Kembali kerumahnya seorang diri.
Setelah Ahmad Kormen kembali kerumahnya, Jepun telah datang untuk menangkap Ahmad Kormen. 9 askar jepun mampus ditetak oleh Ahmad Kormen dan selebihnya melarikan diri. Jepun kembali lagi kemudian dan Ahmad Kormen ditangkap.
Semasa ditangkap jepun Ahmad Kormen telah disiksa oleh Jepun dengan direndam dalam air, dibakar dengan api, dikaren dan berbagai siksa lain. Tetapi ianya tidak menjejaskan fizikal Ahmad kormen. Punyalah hebat Ilmu yang ada pada Ahmad Kormen. Ahmad Kormen pernah melepaskan rantai ikatan Jepun tetapi memilih untuk tidak melarikan diri. Setelah perang tamat, jepun kembali kenegaranya dan Ahmad Kormen telah dibebaskan. Last edited by AdamHood on 2-9-2013 01:55 PM
Reply 17# adi_iskandar
hahaha mane lah pergi org macam ko msa zaman british tindas buli kita, setakat protes dgn bn, kerajaan sebangsa boleh lah bro.
Satu persoalan yang saya nak bangkitkan kat sini.
Adakah mendiang Maharaja Showa (Maharaja Hirohito) ketika itu merestui gabungan negara baginda bersama Jerman dan Itali ketika itu?
Adakah mendiang bersetuju dengan keputusan Kerajaan Jepun menyerang China dan Korea seterusnya memulakan penjajahan ke atas negara-negara Asia Pasifik dalam Perang Dunia Kedua?
Mohon yang lebih arif agar dapat beri jawapan.
jkkkj posted on 12-5-2013 03:23 PM static/image/common/back.gif
Satu persoalan yang saya nak bangkitkan kat sini.
Adakah mendiang Maharaja Showa (Maharaja Hirohi ...
Maharaja Hirohito ialah Boneka...Kuasa Maharaja terhad sekadar lambang... dan dianggap sebagai Dewa sahaja...
Yang berkuasa ialah Perdana Menteri Jepun Hideki Tojo dan Pihak Tentera
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Orang yang memulakan rancangan peperangan ialah '' General Kanji Ishiwara '' peperangan bermula di Manchuria.... dan melakukan taktik penipuan macam 11 September... untuk menyakin pihak Istana dan Parlimen Jepun untuk Menyerang Manchuria....
Last edited by HangPC2 on 13-5-2013 02:24 PM
thanks 4 sharing...:)
HangPC2 posted on 13-5-2013 02:04 PM static/image/common/back.gif
Maharaja Hirohito ialah Boneka...Kuasa Maharaja terhad sekadar lambang... dan dianggap sebagai Dew ...
Apakah alasan yang digunakan oleh Tokyo untuk memulakan kempen ketenteraan pada masa tu?
jkkkj posted on 13-5-2013 02:20 PM static/image/common/back.gif
Apakah alasan yang digunakan oleh Tokyo untuk memulakan kempen ketenteraan pada masa tu?
Insiden Mukden
Insiden Mukden pada tanggal 18 September 1931, diketahui di Jepun sebagai Insiden Manchuria, adalah insiden yang terjadi di selatan Manchuria ketika jalur keretaapi yang dimiliki Jepun, didekat Mukden (kini Shenyang) dibom oleh Jepun. Pihak Tentera Jepaun menuduh China (Kuomintang) bertanggungjawab dalam peristiwa ini. Insiden ini merupakan peristiwa awal Perang Sino-Jepun Kedua, walaupun perang skala penuh tidak bermula sampai tahun 1937.
Semasa kemangkatan mendiang Maharaja Hirohito,saya difahamkan negara-negara Barat seperti Amerika Syarikat,Britain dan Australia telah menggesa dunia memulaukan istiadat pemakaman baginda.Alasannya ialah Hirohito adalah seorang penjenayah perang yang setaraf dengan Hitler dan Mussolini.
Soalan saya : Adakah baginda sama seperti yang digambarkan oleh mereka itu?
jkkkj posted on 13-5-2013 03:26 PM static/image/common/back.gif
Semasa kemangkatan mendiang Maharaja Hirohito,saya difahamkan negara-negara Barat seperti Amerika Sy ...
tidak sama sekali.......Patutnya Perdana Menteri Tojo dan pengikutnya yang sepatutnya...
Mengikut Perlembagaan Jepun yang diasaskan Maharaja Meiji :
Perkara 4 : Maharaja ialah Ketua Empayar, mempunyai hak kedaulatan dan melaksanakannya mengikut Perlembagaan yang terpakai
Perkara 6 : Maharaja memberi perkenan kepada undang-undang dan mengarahkan supaya ianya digubal dan dilaksanakan
Perkara 11 : Maharaja ialah ketua ulung angkatan tentera
jadi nak kira Hirohito mmg bertanggungjawab atas tindakan angkatan tentera baginda dulu. Pandangan yang Maharaja cumalah boneka ialah propa daripada pihak istana serta Mac Arthur sendiri.....
Kalaulah di depan korang ada orang tua yang merupakan bekas pegawai Tentera Imperial Jepun yang pernah melakukan keganasan terhadap rakyat kita semasa zaman penjajahan mereka dulu,adakah korang tak teringin nak tampar orang camtu?
Kasi atuk aku tampar la pasal dia yang merasa....
askar jepun tak takut mati, sangat bertenaga, tak penat tapi tu semua pengaruh syabu..diorg mkn tu masa perang
aku tak pasti sumber ni tapi aku pernah dengar.
patut la rakyat malaya bergumbira bila hiroshima & nagasaki kena bom. kena paham perasaan atuk-atuk kita masa tu.