Singapore, 1942: Britain's Greatest DefeatThe surrender of Singapore on February 15, 1942, was the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history and the high-point of Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia. It graphically exposed the military weakness of the British Empire and its inability to defend its Far Eastern colonies. Based on original records, "Singapore, 1942" shows what went wrong and how an outnumbered and poorly equipped Japanese invasion force swept to victory against a mixed army of British, Australian, and Indian soldiers, changing Britain' s imperial destiny and the course of World War II. |
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Page 175
... perimeter , and the Japanese still held the immediate approaches to the bridge . At 5 p.m. the medical officers ... perimeter . During the night of 21/22 January Japanese tanks on the road behind the column menaced the perimeter ...
... perimeter , and the Japanese still held the immediate approaches to the bridge . At 5 p.m. the medical officers ... perimeter . During the night of 21/22 January Japanese tanks on the road behind the column menaced the perimeter ...
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... perimeter was lit up , clearly silhouetting men to Japanese soldiers gathered in the surrounding vegeta- tion . Heavy rifle and machine gun fire , and showers of grenades and mortar bombs , rained onto the battalion out of the darkness ...
... perimeter was lit up , clearly silhouetting men to Japanese soldiers gathered in the surrounding vegeta- tion . Heavy rifle and machine gun fire , and showers of grenades and mortar bombs , rained onto the battalion out of the darkness ...
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... perimeter around Singapore he had been thinking about since the evening of 9 February . At noon Heath ordered the 11th and 18th Divisions to start retiring from their coastal positions in Northern Area . As Bukit Timah had been lost ...
... perimeter around Singapore he had been thinking about since the evening of 9 February . At noon Heath ordered the 11th and 18th Divisions to start retiring from their coastal positions in Northern Area . As Bukit Timah had been lost ...
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British Malaya | 1 |
The Rise of the Japanese Empire | 11 |
The Defence of Malaya | 23 |
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11th Indian Division 15th Brigade 18th Division 2/18th Battalion 2/19th Battalion 22nd Brigade aerodrome afternoon aircraft Alor Star anti-tank guns arrived artillery attack Australian Bakri battle Bennett bombers bombs bridge Brigade's headquarters British Brooke-Popham Bukit Timah Captain casualties China Chinese Churchill coast convoy December defence Division's East February Field Regiment fighting fire flank Force Z Galleghan Gurkhas Gurun Harrison Heath Imperial Guards Indian Brigade infantry January Japan Japanese force Japanese troops Jats Jitra Johore Strait jungle killed Kirby Kota Bharu Kuala Lumpur Kuantan landing later Layang Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General London machine gun Malay Malaya Command Malayan Campaign Maxwell miles military Muar Murray-Lyon naval night officers Percival Papers Percival's perimeter Phillips Punjabis railway retreat Rifles rubber senior ships Singapore Island Singora Slim River soldiers South-East Asia Squadron staff Sungei Trunk Road Tsuji units Wavell Westforce withdraw wounded XXV Army Yamashita Yong Peng