THE FALL OF SINGAPORE

7—15 FEBRUARY 1942 25 JANUARY 1942 Thailand declares war on Britain and the United States. 10 FEBRUARY 1942 Pacific War Council meets in London to discuss Allied strategy. 11 FEBRUARY 1942 Operation “Cerberus” – the Channel Dash – battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest back to Germany. 13 FEBRUARY 1942 Roosevelt signs order to compel the deportation of 110,000 Japanese from US West Coast. 19 FEBRUARY 1942 Canada introduces military draft legislation. The loss of Singapore was the largest and most humiliating defeat suffered by British Empire forces throughout the Second World War. The island of Singapore was the major British naval base in the Far East and the hub of the defence of British possessions in the Pacific. It had been reinforced…

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