Battle of Singapore
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Lieutenant General Percival leaving a plane on his arrival in Singapore as the new GOC Malaya -
The Naval Base at Singapore. View of the Navy Office, which was the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief China Station and the Rear Admiral Malaya. 1941 -
Lieutenant General Percival welcomes US envoy Averell Harriman at Sembawang Airfield, Singapore, 30 October 1941 -
Men of the Malay Regiment, recruited from local native volunteers, at bayonet practice on Singapore Island, October 1941 -
Newly-arrived Indian troops parade on the quayside at Singapore, November 1941 -
Lieutenant-General A E Percival, General Officer Commanding Malaya at the time of the Japanese attack. December 1941 -
One of Singapore's 15 inch coastal defence guns elevated for firing. - 8 December 1941 -
Royal Engineers prepare to blow up a bridge in Malaya during the British retreat to Singapore. In the background Chinese rickshaws loaded with rice from abandoned government stocks are crossing the bridge. The Allied forces under General Arthur Percival surrendered to General Yamashita in Singapore on 15 February 1942 after a Japanese campaign in Malaya lasting nearly 70 days -
A casualty from the battle area being put into an ambulance on arrival at Singapore - December 1941 - January 1942 -
Australian anti-tank gunners overlooking the Johore Causeway between Singapore and Malaya on 1 February 1942 -
A column of smoke from burning oil tanks rises above the deserted streets of Singapore. February 1942 -
Lieutenant General Percival, GOC Malaya (second from right), with war correspondents in Singapore, shortly before the captitulation, late January 1942 -
Lieutenant-General Percival and his party carry the Union Jack on their way to surrender Singapore to the Japanese - 15 February 1942 -
Lieutenant General Yamashita Tomoyuki and Lieutenant General A E Percival discuss surrender terms at the Ford Works Building near the Bukit Timah Road, Singapore. 15 February 1942 -
Japanese troops marching through Fullerton Square, Singapore - no exact date given
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