Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pō o te 7 ki te 8 o Tihema 1941, kotahi haora i mua i te whakaekenga ki Pearl Harbor, ka uru te Emepara o Hapani ki te pakanga ki te
Te whakaekenga a Hapani ki Malaya. E wha haora i muri i te whakaekenga o Pearl Harbor, i whakarewahia te Pakanga o Hong Kong; i tukua te taone i te Ra Kirihimete. I te 15 o Hanuere 1942, i whakawhānuihia te whakaeke a Hapani i te wa i whakaekehia ai e o raatau hoia a Burma. Kātahi, i te 15 o Hui-tanguru, ka hinga a Singapore. I te marama o Hui-tanguru, ka tiimata te wehenga 70 ki te hoki ki Ihipa. I te 17 o Hui-tanguru i whakahaua te wehenga kia nekehia ki Inia. I te ra i muri mai, i whakawhiwhia a Major-General George Symes ki te rangatira o te wehenga. I eke ratou ki nga kaipuke i Suez, a kua tino wehe atu i Ihipa i te 28 o Hui-tanguru. Ko te wehenga, kaore i te 16th Brigade, i tae ki Bombay i te 10 o Poutu-te-rangi. Na te whakaekenga o te whakaekenga a Hapani o British Ceylon, i tukuna te 16th Brigade hei whakapakari, i tae mai i te 15 o Poutu-te-rangi. I noho tonu ia tae noa ki te 1943, i te wa i uru mai ai ki te wehenga. I te Pipiri 1942, ko te 70th Division i tata atu ki Ranchi; me te 50th Indian Armoured Brigade, he waahanga no te rahui o te ope taua. I kitea te wehenga hei whakatuu whakangungu pai me te 23rd Indian Infantry Division i hangaia he rahui nekeneke ki te taunga mai o Japan, ki te anga whakamua ranei ma Arakan i Burma. I Ranchi, i uru hoki te wehenga ki te whakangungu whawhai ngahere.