Regional1945

Battle of Penang

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Malaysia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Penang (1945), part of the World War II. United Kingdom defeated Japan.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Japan

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1947)Empire of Japan (peak, 1942)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Penang (1945). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-penang · Sources & methodology