TOP SINGAPORE WW2 SITES and the BATTLE FOR SINGAPORE
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2019
- Across Singapore, there are traces and echoes of both the battles and occupation, I show some of the surviving areas, as well as the context for some of the key events in the Battle of Singapore.
This includes the surrender to the Japanese, the occupation, and finally the Surrender of the Japanese, ceding control of Singapore back to the British.
If you are looking for things to do in Singapore, and are interested in WW2 history, then this video is for you
Among the sites and events are the following -
Beach invasion by the Japanese in 1942
Battle of Singapore overview
Fort Siloso
Battle of Bukit Timah
Battle of Bukit Chandu
Battlebox
Surrender at the Ford Factory
Sook Ching
Kranji War Memorial
Operation Jaywick
Operation Rimau
City Hall
Lt. Adnan will be our Singapore’s hero forever!! Salute you !!
keluarga late Lt Adnan mesti dapat elaun dari Singapore..
Thank you for making this informative Video.Im Australian and will be my first visit to Singapore so will check out these locations.
My grandfather's twin bother Ernest was killed in Singapore, 1945 just days before japan's surrender age 21 . Im here to learn and pay my respects to all involved in this very much untold part of the war !!! RIP Ernest.
Hi I am from Singapore and the place I currently live in was one of the first occupied thanks to Australia,new zealand and other nations that defended Singapore I have personally went to some of these locations and there is a 15 pounder gun replica new a radar installation.
Why should we thanks them? Its their job to protect Singapore since they claimed to be the "master" of the island. They are so coward that they push the Malay to meet their fate while they hide behind them. Shameful indeed. The British General was a pussy. Fight till the end my friend..! Re-capture the reservoirs. They thought by surrendering the Japanese army will let them live.. So naive..
I think you are referring to a 15 inch replica gun at Changi? Sadly, the site is poorly maintained.
I've read extensively about the war in the far east I find documentaries like this incredibly interesting there's never enough videos like this 👍🇬🇧
thanks Chris. I imagine you have already discovered Mark Felton's videos. If not check his channel out. Stacks of fascinating WW2 mini docs
Thank you so much, what a wonderful narration.
Thank you so much for doing this fascinating video
Nice video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙂
Really nice video and i do like the history's on WW2 but during the WW2 MALAYSIA wasn't formed yet. The battle of "Malaya" & Singapore should be the correct wording even it sound almost the same. The Federation of Malaysia was officially formed only on 16 September 1963 with the merged of The Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo(Sabah), and Sarawak but Singapore left the federation on 1965. Cheers!!
Hey Tony thanks for the comment. Yes you are totally right, Malaysia should be referred to as Malaya here. My bad, easy to lapse into using the current name, rather than the correct historical one. M
Visiting Singapore and want to know more about historic sites? Or have other recommendations for sites not included? Please leave a comment! And just a correction, Malaysia should be referred to as Malaya here (it's pre 1963 name) rather than Malaysia (thanks to Tony Hii for pointing this out)
Thanks Matt & Nikki 😊. Well it actually quite a sensitive issue for most of our Sabahan and Sarawakian(from the island of Borneo) bcos this Federation(was name as MALAYSIA) was formed out of 3 Nation (Malaya, Sabah & Sarawak) but after some years suddenly the Malaya change it name and became Malaysia(Big Boss) and we Sabah & Sarawak became the servant. Malaya name just gone like that. Vanished!! And also suddenly we been downgraded from a Stage to a stage. Even our oil been control by them and our education study only on they history and so little on our side! In other word we been colonised. That why we like to pinpoint it clearly Malaya is Malaya and Malaya is not Malaysia. Malaysia is the name of our federation. Malaya is 1 of the forming nation just like our nation Sabah and Sarawak. Hope it help. Cheers 😁
ah, I wasn't aware of the wider context to the name change. thanks for educating me. M
@@tonyhii76 The reason why Malaya became Malaysia is because of Singapore. The 'si' represent Singapore.
Shame I didn't have this when in Singapore a couple of years back. These sites are not in the Lonely Planet. However one site that you could have mentioned is Changi prison. There is a Museum plus the facade of the old jail still exists. Or at least it did when I was there.
Great visuals and graphics, pronunciation of some names is a bit off though. The Krait is in Sydney, It was sitting in the water a few years ago at the maritime museum.
Thanks for the comment. I'd like to see what remains of the Krait. Amazing story
@@lifewithmattandnikki3903 A book i read on Operation Jaywick from the 80s was wonderful. The ship is in great condition, the volunteers seemed to have gotten their way in having her taken out of the water to stay dry and safer. I believe its pronounced Kr-ite, a local malay type of snake.
Thank you ，may all who gave their lives rest in peace n in the Everlasting comfort of God .
Very well done , also visit Changi Chapel war museum n Graham white hall in St Andrew's Cathedral.
Great production well done. Unfortunate, typo errors at 2:06 about the 15th Feb Surrender. AE Percival was a Lt-Gen not a Lt Col. and the way it was written would read as though Percival demanded an unconditional surrender.
Good video, you're pronouncing Lieutenant the American way.There should be an 'f' sound Lef-ten-ant.
They first landed And invaded sabak beach kota Bharu midnight 8 december 1941..30 minutes before they attacking pearl harbour
this is so intense.*screams*
The most fiercest battle that were fought in Singapore was actually in west bukit timah or now known as bukit batok.
This place is heavily haunted.. when multiple unresolved murders and suicides in recent times as well.
@@simpernchong Yea totally agree. You should watch Battle of Bukit Batok by James Tann ( Local retelling about ww2 in Singapore)
@@razzrul5838 OK thanks. I go check out..
Bukit chandu
I live near Bukit Timah,not really though. Just my school is near there! Also,Bukit Timah means the Red hill. Dates back to the famous story in Singapore
Timah in english is tin.
berhantu area tu👻👻👻👻🤣🤣
Another area or site is Labrador Park...
Or rather named as Tanjong Berlayer .
“Missing” means no known grave not no body. A very different definition.
Dont forget leftenan adnan saidi...
We never forget him he is a hero and a brave man
Singapore was a major blunder by the British. They outnumbered the Japanese but typically chose to surrender. Leaving the fate of many nationals and allies to the will of Japanese.
Would you have preferred it if they all died fighting for a lost cause. they had families at home to think of, your arrogance is staggering.
S T True, and the Got away with their war crimes
yep Percival was a proper coward
S T no actually that is not true Percival was treated as harshly as anyone else the commander of the British 18th division died in captivity.
sghound How? He fought in ww1. He wanted to continue the fight but it was logistically impossible.
do one for Malaysia
Has mankind drawn the appropriate and painful lessons from WWI and WWII?
That beneath the historical grievances of justifying war, are the domestic undercurrents of ambition, pride and power feeding on one another.
This dynamic is still present today.
If not carefully managed or reined in, they can form a combustible mix that can spiral nations into another hemispheric, if not global and total war.
Lest we forget.
Hero
1:59 why does it say LT Colonel ?
Typo. It's Lt Gen as per the audio
everyone salutes you war soldiers
British Malaya not Malaysia in 1941.
Makes me want to go out and buy a Honda or Toyota \s
Lt Adnan was tortured by the Japanese soldiers before he was bayoneted
Bukit means hill. So if you call it bukit timah hill you're actually are calling it timah hill hill
You totally forgotten about Lim Bo Seng who founded Force 136. Alamak!!
Get your facts right. Lim Bo Seng did not founded Force 136. Force 136 was part of the Special Operations Executive
Marshal Zhukov might have done a better job defending Singapore.
Correct me if I m wrong, i was told that it was a Malaysian who secretly informed the Japanese how to invade Singapore, while the British guarded the Southern front... N it was the Japanese who cut the water supply that led the surrender of the British...
There would have been many on the ground informants, sympathetic to the Japanese cause, who fed them with information, photography and maps. And yes, the Japanese cut the water supply, or threatened to. At this point the British knew the game was up and through in the towel
@@lifewithmattandnikki3903 tat was why, Sg was fed up and wanted independent and after getting independence, our top priority is to set up a defense team... ☺ 👍
@@JesusLovesHisCreations Yes We cannot and must not depend on others to protect our island state. Singapore geographical location is both a blessing and a curse.
7mins+ story u.k and Japan flag walking side by side is real communication yet? I wonder. I feel if like an allowed camping like under block exploration will be nice to discover people - or near swimming pool(have shower) or portable toilet. So the grave are fake as real story underground is cannibal sharing spot or story of "real wealth" of others storage place, a secret bank? Heard nobody buried in Singapore before?
Is this reality thing?
Biar putih tulang jangan putih mata
Yamashita told war crimes court in Manila he didn't know anything about crimes such as the murder of Chinese in Singapore and had he known would have stopped it.
The British could have been more successful had they armed the locals in greater numbers. Other than the Malay Regiment, the only other local troops who fought were the poorly armed Chinese volunteers of Dalforce. These guys were given only shotguns and a handful of bullets. They were nicknamed Dalley's Desperados after their commander, Police Lt Col Dalley
They didn't need more men, they needed quality, fresh men and better equipment and supply. Errors that led to the fall of Signapore can be traced back to the 1930s and the "stop and start" nature of the construction of the defences.
Also the British did not believe that an attack from the land would be likely and also massively underestimated the quality of the Japanese Military due to their believed racial infereriority
Invaded Malaya, not Malaysia.... :)
its lt.general percival. not a lt.colonel. either way his actions and decision are tht of a lietenant at best. incompetent planning and foresight.
Exactly. After WW2 Percival was shunned by the British High Command
Laftenan Adnan🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🔥❤️ Malaysia kick singapore out😂
Leftenan adnan memang lahir di malaysia tapi dia dudok singapore dgn bini dia
Memang betul arwah nya dari malaysia, tapi sejarah nya selalu di cerita kan bila setiap bulan february. Di sekolah pun ada di muat kan dalam class sejarah. Nak di kata kan nama arwah nya dalam perjuangan nya bersama askar2 yang lain selalu di sebut kan dan di cerita kan. Tapi di malaysia mana ada cerita kan sejarah arwah nya? Hanya cerita mengenai sejarah askar malayu saja......saya warga singapura, arwah babak orang johor, arwah mak orang trengganu, arwah atok dari negara perlis, moyang saya dari merlimau. Dan jugak arwah bapak dan arwah atok ada lah dari askar malayu.
Singapore lost because of water controlled by Japanese soldiers
Singapore not a country just one district in Johor State 🤔...
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Past tense bro.
@@muhammadjebat7464 does it matter:/?
Singapore had its independence so it has became a country and no longer attached with Johor.
So sad Singapore is so boring now.