Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin dare na 7/8 Disamba 1941, sa'a daya kafin kai hari kan Pearl Harbor, Daular Japan ta shiga yaƙi tare da mamayar Japan na Malaya
Ka yi haƙuri. Sa'o'i hudu bayan harin a Pearl Harbor, an kaddamar da yakin Hong Kong; birnin ya mika wuya a ranar Kirsimeti. A ranar 15 ga Janairun 1942, an fadada harin na Japan yayin da sojojin su suka mamaye Burma. Sai kuma, a ranar 15 ga Fabrairu, Singapore ta faɗi. A watan Fabrairun, rundunar ta 70 ta fara komawa Masar. A ranar 17 ga Fabrairu aka ba da umarnin a tura rukunin zuwa Indiya. Kashegari, Major-General George Symes ya ba da umurnin rundunar. Sun shiga jirgi a Suez, kuma sun bar Masar gaba ɗaya a ranar 28 ga Fabrairu. Rukunin, ba tare da Brigade na 16 ba, ya isa Bombay a ranar 10 ga Maris. Tare da mamayewar Jafananci na Ceylon na Burtaniya da ake tsammani, an aika da Brigade na 16 a matsayin ƙarfafawa, wanda ya isa ranar 15 ga Maris. Ya kasance har zuwa 1943, lokacin da ya sake shiga cikin rukunin. A watan Yunin 1942, rukunin 70 ya kasance kusa da Ranchi; tare da Brigade na 50 na Indiya, ya zama wani ɓangare na ajiyar Sojojin Gabas. An ga wannan rukunin a matsayin mai horar da horarwa kuma tare da Rukunin Sojojin Indiya na 23 sun kafa ajiyar motsi a kan saukowar Japan ko ci gaba ta hanyar Arakan a Burma. A Ranchi, sashin ya kuma shiga cikin horon yaƙin daji.