
Originally Posted by
Pindar
Yamashite, the Tiger of Singapore is fairly impressive.
With a numerically inferior force, he soundly beat Britain's Percival in Malaysia and followed it up with taking the prize Singapore itself netting some 100,000 prisoners. Due to in-house rivalries Yamashita was afterwards assigned to secondary front duties for the remainder of the war, if I recall correctly. Yamashita seems to encapsulate many of the basic notions of Japanese warfare: speed, audacity and brutality.
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