Battle of Singapore | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore


00:00:55 1 Background
00:01:04 1.1 Outbreak of war
00:03:34 1.2 Invasion of Malaya
00:08:06 2 Prelude
00:15:08 3 Battle
00:15:16 3.1 Initial Japanese landings
00:19:51 3.2 Air war
00:23:58 3.3 Second day
00:26:51 3.4 Japanese breakthrough
00:34:04 3.5 Alexandra Hospital massacre
00:35:25 3.6 Fall of Singapore
00:40:10 4 Aftermath
00:44:22 5 See also
00:44:45 6 Notes



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The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore—nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East". Singapore was the major British military base in South-East Asia and was the key to British imperial interwar defence planning for South-East Asia and the South-West Pacific. The fighting in Singapore lasted from 8 to 15 February 1942, after the two months during which Japanese forces had advanced down the Malayan Peninsula.
The campaign, including the final battle, was a decisive Japanese victory, resulting in the Japanese capture of Singapore and the largest British surrender in history. About 80,000 British, Indian and Australian troops in Singapore became prisoners of war, joining 50,000 taken by the Japanese in the earlier Malayan Campaign. The British prime minister, Winston Churchill, called it the "worst disaster" in British military history.