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15 paź 2023 · Outline map of Singapore showing the route taken by the Japanese forces in their attack of February 1942, and the position of the AIF "at capitulation". Scale 2 miles to an inch (1:126,720). Shows also the Johore Strait, RAF aerodrome, naval base, built-up area, villages, roads, railway, civil airport, watercourses and reservoirs.
During the Second World War, Singapore was the site of one of the British Commonwealth's greatest military defeats. Britain had built a large naval dockyard on the north coast of the island during the 1930s to use as a base from which to project naval power throughout the Asia-Pacific and thus the island became central to their strategy in the ...
Historical Map of South & Southwest Asia (15 February 1942 - Fall of Singapore: By February 1942 the Japanese forces invading Malaya had reached the perimeter of Singapore, Britain’s most important military base in Southeast Asia and the keystone of British defences in the region.
16 lut 2024 · High Commissioner Anil Nayar and Mrs Sasha Nayar, accompanied by Defence Adviser COL Lim Kah Keng, laid a wreath at the Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial, to commemorate this day and pay tribute to the men and women who sacrificed their lives to defend Singapore in World War II.
6 cze 2019 · When the first Japanese came ashore on Singapore Island on 8 February the thinly spread Australians defending the northwestcoast failed to halt the attack and the Argylls were send to help stem the tide in the brief Battle of Singapore.
From 8 December 1941 onwards, 11 relentless air raids on mainland Singapore left thousands of civilian casualties in their wake. The British surrender, led by Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, finally took place on 15 February 1942 at the Ford Motor Factory on Upper Bukit Timah Road.
The fall of Singapore, the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, and other defeats in 1941–42 all severely undermined British prestige, which contributed to the end of British colonial rule in the region after the war.
