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- The 25th Army under Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, was to slice southward down the slender, 600 mile long Malay
Peninsula and take the fortress of Singapore, with its key naval base.
- The 14th Army under Lieutenant General Masahuru Homma was to invade the American owned Philippines, a potential thorn
in the eastern flank of Japan's push south.
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- The 15th Army under Lieutenant General Shojiro Lida was to step off from Thailand into Burma and close the Burma Road,
which was the last Allied overland supply route from India to China.
- The Japanese Navy and the 16th Army under Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura was to seize the biggest prize of all, the
oil-rich Dutch East Indies.
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