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Besieged Forces Hold Out In Southeast War Fronts
In early Pacific war, Singapore under siege as MacArthur's forces endure in the Philippines. Japanese offensive drives through Amboina and surrounding Dutch defenses, while Mafeking’s heroic resistance from 1899 is cited as historical precedent.
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Fred Vanderschmidt
Singapore
MacArthur
Batan
Corregidor
Japan
Netherlands East Indies
Blucca
Amboina
Strait of
Macassar
Borneo
A. E. Percival
Peninsula of
Mafeking
Bachuanaland
Robert Baden-Powell
Boy Scouts
Baden- Powell
Rhodesia