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This would see landings in Malaya and Hong Kong as part of a general move south to secure Singapore, connected to Malaya by the Johor–Singapore Causeway and then an invasion of the oil-rich area of Borneo and Java in the Dutch East Indies. Attacks would be made against the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor as well as landings in the ...
Sook Ching [d] was a mass killing that occurred from 18 February to 4 March 1942 in Singapore after it fell to the Japanese.It was a systematic purge and massacre of 'anti-Japanese' elements in Singapore, with the Singaporean Chinese particularly targeted by the Japanese military during the occupation.
This is a list of memorials in Singapore: Bukit Batok Memorial [1] The Cenotaph; Civilian War Memorial; Merlion; Elephant statue at the Old Parliament House; Dalhousie Obelisk; Former Indian National Army Monument; Kranji War Memorial; Lim Bo Seng Memorial; Nanyang University Memorial; Raffles' Landing Site Statue; Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial ...
The memorial was officially unveiled by Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew on the 25th anniversary of the start of the Japanese occupation in 1967. [16] It was constructed with part of the S$50 million 'blood debt' compensation paid by the Japanese government in October 1966. [ 16 ]
During the Sook Ching massacre that occurred in Singapore during World War II, mass war graves were dug to contain the bodies of civilians who were killed by the Japanese. . When the bodies were unearthed in 1962 in various places, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) decided to gather the remains and create a memorial for th
On 10 February further landings were made against the northern positions occupied by the 27th Brigade between the River Kranji and the Causeway, and steadily the British and Commonwealth lines were pushed back south-east towards the centre of the island. [1]
The Changi Chapel and Museum is a war museum dedicated to Singapore's history during the Second World War and the Japanese occupation of Singapore. After the British Army was defeated by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Singapore, thousands of prisoners of war (POWs) were imprisoned in Changi prison camp for three and a half years ...
The Battle For Singapore – The True Stories of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II. London: Portraits Books. ISBN 0-7499-5085-4. Elphick, Peter (1995). Singapore: The Pregnable Fortress – A Study in Deception, Discord and Desertion. London: Coronet Books. ISBN 0-340-64990-9. Owen, Frank (2001). The Fall of Singapore. London: Penguin Books.