Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Daga shekarun 1920 shirin tsaron Australia ya mamaye abin da ake kira 'dabarun Singapore'. Wannan dabarar ta hada da gina da kuma kare wani babban sansanin sojan ruwa a Singapore wanda babban rundunar sojan Birtaniya za ta amsawa ga hare-haren Japan a yankin. Don wannan dalili, an tattara yawancin sojojin Ostiraliya a Asiya a Malaya a cikin 1940 da 1941 yayin da barazanar Japan ta ƙaru. A farkon yakin sojojin Australiya a Malaya sun hada da Sashen na 8 (ba tare da Brigade na 23 ba) a karkashin jagorancin Manjo Janar Gordon Bennett, da rundunonin RAAF guda hudu da jiragen ruwa guda takwas. RAAF ta zama sabis na farko da ya ga aiki a cikin Pacific lokacin da aka harbe jirgin saman Australiya wanda ke inuwa da jirgin ruwan mamayewar Japan da ke zuwa Malaya a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1941. Rukunin Australiya sun halarci ƙoƙarin da ba a yi nasara ba na Commonwealth don kayar da saukowar Jafananci, tare da jiragen RAAF da ke kai hari kan rairayin bakin teku da Vampire da ke rakiyar jirgin ruwan Burtaniya Prince of Wales da kuma jirgin ruwa na yaƙi Repulse a lokacin da suka yi ƙoƙari su kai hari ga rundunar sojojin Japan.  Tambaya: Wanene ya jagoranci rundunar 8 a Malaya?
Babban Janar Gordon Bennett