Battle of Singapore
February 8th-15th, 1942
Fall of Singapore
Location Location
Fought in Singapore and the Straits Settlements. Singapore was considered a vital part of the British empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress.
Who dunnit?
Britian
85,000 troops
Australia
5,ooo killed
India
80,000 captured
Versus
Technology
Japan
- 84 Fighter Planes
- Water crafts
- Bombs, bomb planes
- Tanks
Allies
- 10 Hawker Hurricane planes
- 3 Machine Gun Battalion
- 38 Infantry Battalions
- 1 Battery of 3, 380 mm gun
- 1 Bttery of 2, 380 mm gun (separate location)
Military
Allies
- 38 Infantry Battalions
- 70,000 Frontline Troops
- 22nd Brigade assigned 10 mile sector
- 27th Brigade assigned 4000 yards
- 2nd Brigade assigned 11 miles