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Major Maurice Albert Parker:

From the time the very first bomb dropped Maltby knew he had big problems.Wallis was on the mainland with only three batallions to protect almost 16 kilometers of mostly unfinished defensive positions. Some of the Royal Scots were ill with malaria, but worse ... Maltby had based the defense plan on faulty intelligence. There were far more than 5,000 "poorly trained, poorly equipped scrawny little Japanese on the mainland. There was the entire 23rd. Japanese Imperial Army, under the Supreme Command of Lt. Gen. Sakai, and these Japanese soldiers knew how to fight. At 08:00 hrs, as the bombs rained down on the defenders, units of the Japanese 23rd. crossed the Sham Chun Shan river and like a tidal wave rushed eastwards towards the Allied Forces.

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