Video: '130 - Britain's Worst Defeat - Singapore Falls - WW2 - February 20, 1942' (Feb. 15, 1942, at 0:52)

(Sunday, February 15, 1942, just after 6:00 p.m. MALT, during the Fall of Singapore, part of the Malayan campaign of the Second World War) — Singapore — an island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia nicknamed Britain’s “Gibraltar of the East,” a mighty marine fortress that ties India with Australia — fell to the Japanese today when Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival formally surrendered, resulting in the largest British surrender in history. Continue reading Singapore falls in ‘worst disaster’ in British military history 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 15 1942) →