 Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Apo maJapan akapinda muMalaya nechokuchamhembe musi wa 8 December 1941, B-339E pakutanga yakaita zvakanaka. Kurwisana neNakajima Ki-27 Nate, maBrewster akanga ane mutoro mukuru aigona kuzvidzivirira kana akapiwa nguva yekuenda kumusoro, uye pakutanga akawana nhamba inoremekedzwa yekuuraya. Zvisinei, kuoneka kwenhamba huru zvikuru dzevarwi veJapan, kubatanidza marudzi akatanhamara zvikuru akadai seNakajima Ki-43 Oscar nokukurumidza kwakakurira vatyairi veBuffalo, vose vari mumhepo nepasi. Chimwe chinhu chinokosha chaiva chido cheinjini yeBrewster chokupisa zvakanyanya mumamiriro okunze anotyisa, izvo zvakakonzera mafuta kuti apfure pamusoro pegirazi remhepo, kazhinji achimanikidza basa rakaputsika uye rakaoma zvikuru kuedza kupindira nekuparadza ndege dzemuvengi. Pakupedzisira, vanopfuura 60 Brewster Mk I B-339E ndege vakapfurwa pasi muhondo, 40 yakaparadzwa pasi, uye vanenge 20 zvakawanda yakaparadzwa tsaona. MaBuffalo anenge 20 bedzi akapukunyuka kuti asvike India kana kuti Dutch East Indies. Buffalo yokupedzisira yakakodzera kubhururuka muSingapore yakabhururuka musi wa 10 February, mazuva mashanu chitsuwa chacho chisati chawa. 