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The Japanese Air Force had more men and was well trained and better equipped than the British Commonwealth pilots who had inferior equipment without any good training. The main Japanese fighter, the [[Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero]] helped the Japanese forces gain an upper hand. The Japanese warplanes managed to sink the British capital ships thus leaving the Malayan peninsula exposed giving room for more Japanese landings.
The Japanese Air Force had more men and was well trained and better equipped than the British Commonwealth pilots who had inferior equipment without any good training. The main Japanese fighter, the [[Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero]] helped the Japanese forces gain an upper hand. The Japanese warplanes managed to sink the British capital ships thus leaving the Malayan peninsula exposed giving room for more Japanese landings.
==Aftermath==
According to the book ''The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War'' (Potomac Books, 2008), tens of thousands of Chinese labourers of the British Army were killed, because the British failed to destroy the files that contained their names and addresses.
== Notes ==
== Notes ==