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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Singapore city, the capital, largest city, and chief port, is administratively coextensive with the republic.
		It is separated from Indonesia to the south by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia to the north by the Johore Strait.
		Singapore has remained in the Commonwealth of Nations, and it joined the United Nations in 1965; it was one of the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1967.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Singapor.asp (1841 words)

	Battle of Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fighting in Singapore lasted from February 7, 1942 – February 15, 1942 and resulted in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
		Singapore, which lay to the south, was connected to Malaya by the Johor-Singapore Causeway.
		The Chinese in Malaya and Singapore had also through financial and economic means aided the defence of Republic of China against the Japanese, although sometimes the aid suffered factionalism as the aid was segregated between the different factions in China, as the Chinese Civil War was ongoing at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fall_of_Singapore (2603 words)

	::The fall of Singapore::
		The fall of Singapore to the Japanese Army on February 15th 1942 is considered one of the greatest defeats in the history of the British Army and probably Britain’s worst defeat in World War Two.
		The fall of Singapore in 1942 clearly illustrated the way Japan was to fight in the Far East — a combination of speed and savagery that only ended with the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945.
		Singapore, an island at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, was considered a vital part of the British Empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /fall_of_singapore.htm (1436 words)

	Napnuts Fall of Singapore game
		The assault was preceded by aerial bombing of Singapore's coastal batteries and airfields and succeeded in gaining a bridgehead by capturing Singapore's port.
		The sudden "fall" of Singapore also mobilised the US Asiatic fleet (then taking refuge in the Dutch East Indies and comprising 2 cruisers, several destroyers and 30 submarines).
		Singapore was retaken, and many Japanese ships were sunk by US subs (including the Battleships Kongo and Haruna).
	napnuts.tripod.com /spore_final.htm (1077 words)

	Remembering 1942
		For Singapore was supposed to have been an impregnable fortress, and had stood for many years as a potent symbol of British power in South-East Asia.
		Singapore thus remained without the fleet that was its primary rationale.
		Singapore's fall was not the end or full extent of the grim situation faced by Australia in early 1942.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/singapore/transcript.htm (1331 words)

	Auch2000-The Fall of Singapore and Malaya
		Singapore, an island off the southern end of the Malay Peninsula was considered "The Gibraltar of the Far East." The fall of Singapore, to the Japanese, was considered one of Great Britain's worst defeats in World War II.
		Singapore was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, but it was returned to the British and became a separate Crown colony in 1946, By 1958, Singapore was self-governing, before it joined Malaysia.
		Singapore Island, Penang Island (Georgetown is a town there), and Kuala Lumpar (the capital of Malay), were all located on, or offshore from, the Malay Peninsula.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Singapore.html (1312 words)

	SIXTY YEARS AGO: Pacific Theater: The Fall of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Singapore (shown on map - #5, left) was a sleepy island village, sparsely populated, when Sir Stamford Ruffles, searching for a location for a forward based British port, first visited it on 29 January 1819.
		Singapore was also blessed with a deep water port and a good quantity of fresh water.
		Singapore was a favorite of the trading companies because it was a free port, and the British security forces put a lid on piracy.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/2002/ww2/qtr1/0218.htm (955 words)

	[Australian War Memorial]
		Throughout the war, Changi in Singapore was the main camp from which working parties were sent to other destinations and through which prisoners of war captured in other areas were staged.
		The largest group was congregated on Singapore Island and Johore (5,549); but 4,830 were distributed in several camps and in a number of working parties in Thailand and remote areas of Burma.
		Some 14,972 Australians captured at the fall of Singapore were imprisoned there(as drafts were sent away, the numbers at Changi declined, then after the completion of the Burma-Thailand Railway, numbers rose again).
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/pow/general_info.htm (2898 words)

	The Fall of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Singapore Strategy, as it had become known before the War, was as much a product of Britain’s history as a maritime power as it was a carefully considered strategy of empire defence.
		The popular image of Singapore as an impregnable fortress was due largely to desperate British propaganda in the last years of the 1930s.
		Singapore was to be a base capable of supporting naval strength sufficient to dominate the region.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/AHU/history/Battles/Singapore.htm (1471 words)

	Fall of Singapore
		No orders or instructions concerning the fight for Malaya and Singapore were ever issued by Wavell, just a brief message on the 13th when he suggested that all officers should die alongside their men, this order was issued from his plane as it took him back to the safety of India.
		Our job was to hold Singapore for as long as we could and not to evacuate it, and any suggestion that arrangements for evacuation were being made would have had a most disastrous effect.
		He also was worried about the water situation and stressed the dangers which would result if Singapore with its large population was suddenly deprived of its water supply.I felt that the water situation was undoubtedly serious but that it had not yet rendered the further defence of Singapore impossible.
	www.fepow-community.org.uk /arthur_lane/html/fall_of_singapore.htm (5109 words)

	Singapore in the past - All the information you need to know about Singapore in the past
		By 1938, the naval base in Singapore was almost completed.The British felt that Singapore was strong enough to defend itself against any enemies.
		In fact, the British announced that Singapore, with its gun positions, military airfields and naval base, was so strong that it would not be defeated.
		The British soldiers retreated to Singapore and destroyed the Causeway.
	www.freewebs.com /singaporeinthepast/worldwar2.htm (1089 words)

	Fall of Singapore: The final hours...
		Singapore had taken a terrific battering this day.
		By 15 February the nurses had all been evacuated from Singapore and the hospitals were overflowing with wounded men, cared for by male orderlies.
		St Andrew's Cathedral was crammed with sick and wounded men, and doctors had improvised an operating theatre in one of the smaller annexes.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/finalhrs.html (565 words)

	Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Singapore was considered a vital part of the British Empire.
		British troops in Singapore were told the Japanese troops were poor fighters.
		On January 31st 1942, the Allied forces withdraw across the causeway that separated Singapore from Malaya.
	www.paralumun.com /warsingapore.htm (317 words)

	Fall of Singapore
		The people in Singapore suffered and lived in fear of the Japanese during the Japanese Occupation.
		The name was an irony as the people in Singapore spent the darkest days of their lives during the three-and-a-half year long Japanese Occupation.
		Who remained in Singapore were made to clean up the city, bury the dead and restore water and electricity supplies.
	library.thinkquest.org /12405/16.htm (425 words)

	Singapore
		The Republic of Singapore consists of the main island of Singapore, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, and 58 nearby islands.
		Singapore attained full internal self-government in 1959, and Lee Kwan Yew, an economic visionary with an authoritarian streak, took the helm as prime minister.
		However, Singapore's strict rules of civil obedience also drew criticism from those who said the nation's prosperity was achieved at the expense of individual freedoms.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107963.html (638 words)

	Historian Callahan discusses fall of Singapore
		February marked the 60th anniversary of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II, and the event was marked by an international conference of historians and scholars sponsored by the National University of Singapore.
		Raymond Callahan, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science and the author of “The Worst Disaster: The Fall of Singapore,” first published in 1977 by the University of Delaware Press, was among the invited speakers at the conference, where he focused on Winston Churchill’s role in Singapore’s defeat.
		Churchill was aware of what was happening in Singapore and gambled that the Japanese would not attack and that the U.S. would intervene, neither of which happened, according to Callahan.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/01-02/callahan041802.html (730 words)

	AM Archive - Remembering the fall of Singapore
		ELEANOR HALL: As Australian veterans remember the surrender of Singapore to the Japanese 60 years ago, another group of visitors to the island state is debating a part of that history that many would rather forget.
		PETER ELPHICK: In the actual fall of Singapore, the most controversial aspect of all is the subject of desertion by Australians, Indians, Brits.
		GEOFF THOMPSON: Peter Elphick believes the fall of Singapore was the single greatest act of desertion in the history of the British Empire and he alleges many of them were Australians and it was they who led the way.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s482115.htm (407 words)

	Mir Fall Spurs Singapore to Get Tough on Space Junk
		SINGAPORE (AP) -- The planned dumping of Russia's Mir space station in the south Pacific next week shows the urgent need for new laws governing outer space, participants in an international conference on space law said Monday.
		The institute was a sponsor of the two-day Space Law Conference 2001, which opened Monday in Singapore.
		Space junk falling to Earth presents a potential legal and political nightmare, depending on what it falls on.
	www.space.com /news/spacestation/mir_singapore_010302_wg.html (638 words)

	Blogging... Walk The Talk: The Fall of Singapore, Part I
		Barring a miracle, the fall of Singapore was almost inevitable.
		Within two weeks of his meeting with Brigadier Simson, the situation in mainland Malaya had deteriorated to the point where he was beginning to fear that the enemy might attempt to land on the island, particularly on the north-western coast which was closest to the mainland, before their conquest of the peninsula was completed.
		The British fall in Malaya and Singapore, in retrospect, seems like a stack of dominos, with each defeat and retreat causing the fall of the next.
	www.blogthetalk.com /2006/02/fall-of-singapore-part-i.html (1219 words)

	Singapore
		Singapore - Republic of Singapore President: S. Nathan (1999) Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong (2004) Land...
		Atlas: Singapore - Facts on Singapore: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
		Singapore: Bibliography - Bibliography See N. Barber, A Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore, 1942 (1968); J. Salaff,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0845345.html (212 words)

	Omphalos: The Fall of Singapore -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Fall of Singapore -- From Sister Moira's Blog, this commemorative piece: Veterans recall "living hell" of Singapore's wartime fall
		More than 100,000 mainly Indian, British and Australian troops were taken prisoner on the evening of February 15, 1942, when General Arthur Percival unconditionally surrendered the British island fortress that had been believed impregnable.
		Historians of colonialism often say that the Fall of Singapore, more than any other single event, erased the illusion of the White Man's invulnerabilty and fueled Asian Independence Movements.
	www.bennett.com /archives/000111.html (174 words)

	Blogging... Walk The Talk: The Fall of Singapore, Part II
		But Sir Shenton Thomas [the Governor] and his sick wife had been obliged to make one small compromise and move into the Singapore Club in the Fullerton Building after shells had hit his Government House, killing twelve staff and Gurkha guards who were sheltering under the back veranda.
		In his week-long campaign on Singapore Island itself, Yamashita lost almost as many men as he did on the peninsula: 1,713 killed and 2,772 wounded.
		As with Hong Kong, the British repossession of the city after the end of World War II was under different terms, with British dignity never fully restored after this humiliating defeat.
	www.blogthetalk.com /2006/02/fall-of-singapore-part-ii.html (932 words)

	The Fall of Singapore
		We had a few runs ashore and enjoyed Singapore very much; it was fascinating place of contrasts and the Union Jack club, where thousands of servicemen were catered for at a time, was the last word in comfort.
		1st Dec: a state of emergency was declared in Singapore, 2nd Dec: the arrival of two warships of the Royal Navy, the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, in Singapore - 7th Dec: The Japanese destroy the Pacific American fleet at Pearl Harbour naval base, and invade Hong Kong and the Philippines.
		Churchill replies Singapore is to be defended to the death.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /fallofsingapore.html (5210 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Winston Churchill had touted Singapore as the Gibraltar of the East; it was imagined to be impregnable, yet it was overwhelmed in a relative heartbeat by the Imperial Japanese Army, which rapidly advanced through Malaya (sometimes even by bicycle).
		Indeed, once the Japanese reached the island of Singapore itself, their main problem was that they had overrun their supply lines and were almost out of ammunition.
		Plainly Barber is in love with Singapore's history (as his other books on Singapore attest); from that perspective he conveys the sting of defeat just that more sharply.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0304364371 (497 words)

	Fall of Singapore: 'ordered to leave'
		Matron Irene Drummond (right) was killed in the massacre on Banka Island and Sister Dora Gardam (left) died on 4 April 1945 as a prisoner of war.
		The remaining 65 AANS nurses sailed from Singapore on the Vyner Brooke on 12 February 1942.
		Two days later, and within half an hour of Sumatra, their ship was bombed and sunk.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/leave.html (376 words)

	AM Archive - Fall of Singapore anniversary
		Joined by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Danna Vale, the veterans will be commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the fall of Singapore.
		Most of them have never been back to Singapore since that time 60 years ago when they served their country.
		LYDIA HOWDEN: I'll probably shed my share of tears because to try and visualise that he was there in that time, you know, almost wishing you could have that time over, though you wouldn't want it to be war time, but to have him still with me but I'm terribly proud of what he did.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s478184.htm (625 words)

	Japanese Aggression exposes Australia's inadequate Defences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Despite questioning of the Singapore defence policy, nothing had been done by the Australian government to address the issue, and Australia's defences proved to be pitifully inadequate at the outbreak of World War II.
		Despite assurances to successive Australian governments that the Singapore naval base was "impregnable", British defensive planning for Singapore had effectively not advanced from the era of World War I. Britain's so-called "impregnable bastion" at Singapore was a naval base in name only.
		The powerful guns at Singapore naval base mostly faced the sea approaches to Singapore and the armour-piercing shells were useless to defend the island against air attack and Japanese troops advancing from the landward side.
	www.users.bigpond.com /battleforaustralia/battaust/Austinvasion.html (2195 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Category Index of Guide Entries
		The Fall of Singapore and Rescue at Sea, 1942
		Soldier's View of the Fall of Singapore 1941-2
		A Toddler in Singapore at the Outbreak of WW2
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/C55167 (226 words)

	Remembering 1942
		The surrender of Singapore was one of the largest and most dramatic reverses suffered by British forces in the war, or indeed in modern British history, with 130,000 personnel becoming prisoners of the Japanese, included in this total were 15,000 Australians.
		Roll of Honour talk, presented by Dr Chris Coulthard-Clark, on Friday 15 February 2002.
		Smoke from fire on naval base at Singapore island spreads clouds over city.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/singapore (98 words)

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