• the Battle of the Espero Convoy during the Mediterranean Campaign in World War II resulted in such a shortage of ammunition that planned Allied convoys to Malta had to be postponed for two weeks?
• a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?

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• after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg existed for some time in an area that Allied forces neglected to occupy?
• although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
• the Allies organized the South East Asia Command, led by Lord Mountbatten, to manage operations in the southern Pacific Theater during World War II?
• the guns at Fort Nepean (pictured) in Victoria, Australia fired the first Allied shots of both World War I and World War II?