Bayan haka, sai a amsa tambayar a baya a cikin wannan yaren: Passage: British Malaya da sauri ya rushe, yana girgiza al'ummar Ostiraliya. Sojojin Burtaniya, Indiya da Ostiraliya sun yi gwagwarmaya ta ƙarshe a Singapore, kafin su mika wuya a ranar 15 ga Fabrairu, 1942. Kimanin sojoji 15,000 na Ostiraliya sun zama fursunonin yaƙi. Curtin ya yi hasashen cewa "yaƙin don Ostiraliya" zai biyo baya. A ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, Darwin ya sha wahala mummunan harin iska, a karo na farko da sojojin abokan gaba suka kai wa babban yankin Ostiraliya hari. A cikin watanni 19 masu zuwa, an kai wa Ostiraliya hari daga sama kusan sau 100. Tambaya: Kimanin Australiya nawa aka kama a matsayin fursunonin yaƙi a Yaƙin Duniya na II?
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