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I remember the "I FOUND IT!" posters......

On the morning of 14 February 1942, Yoong Tat Sin, a fourth-year medical student, was fatally injured by Japanese shelling while on duty at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital along Balestier Road. He was rushed to the Outram Road General Hospital (former name of Singapore General Hospital) for an...

The day 11+1 medical students died..... In 1942 during the invasion of Singapore, medical students from the college volunteered to help in the hospital.... When the bombs rained down, one was killed..... he was taken to the hospital grounds to be buried. As his classmate dug the grave, a...

My friend whilst on duty at night as "OO" , he came face to face with an apparition with long hair... the type you see in cheap chinese movies..... he freaked out.... ( but he did move up the ranks till he retired as ASP...) When they constructed the swimming pool, they actually dug up a...

The crying policeman is the IO Asst Supt Wong Yeut Oon. He is ASP. He is not the AC referred to in the article.

Yes, many policemen -Malays (and chinese detectives) were killed after the Japs surrendered. One of the cops' killing fields was outside the old Police Academy. This site was later developed as a condo..... a very haunted condo.... The residents reportedly called in the Taoist priests who...

Malay troopers..... at least they were properly armed. Dalforce volunteers were given shotguns and throw-away arms to face the Japs, and head scarves for identification. In the their first battle, they were attacked by the Aussies who could not tell the difference between Dalforce and the...

Batman defects to join Castro and Che' G.....

Germans surrender

D-Day and the 101st Airborne....

How the Allies won world war 2 - the secret is out !!!

Great Photos of Kranji War Memorial

Taiwanese troops in the Jap army were used as interpreters..... the Koreans were used as prison guards, they were as cruel, if not more so than the Japs because of their second class status in the Jap army. The conquest of Singapore was accomplished by the 5th, 18th Divisions and Imperial...

Afternoon nap at the Kranji War Memorial....... don't look local......

The irony is that all these graves in the Kranji War Memorial all faced the Johore Bahru skyline, including the Palace and Municiple Building where Gen Yamashita located his HQ......

Er...... well.... yes....Dalforce volunteers who died - their names were inscribed on the walls, but as a whole,there is no Monument to them as a Unit..... I addition to Dalforce, there were also many from other Volunteer units who perished..... They came from all over Malaya...... Malaya...

Gordon Bennet and the Jap HQ As part of their invasion plan, the Japanese 25th Army set up their HQ at the Johore Sultan's Green Palace, the Istana Hijau. The building was on elevated ground and had a 5 storey observation tower, giving it a bird's eye view of Singapore. The Municiple Building...

Bennett organised his own escape at the same time, he stopped his own officers escape plans saying that to "allow any large-scale unorganised attempts to escape would result in confusion and slaughter". He then issued an order that all Australian units were to remain at their posts then...

Secret of Bukit Chandu Everyone knows how Lt Adnan fought and died. Adnan was hung by his legs to a tree and repeatedly bayoneted before his mutilated body was burnt. Hw do we know this? The only Malay Regiment survivor was Corporal Yaakob. In the turmoil of fighting, he fell on top of a pile...

The Imperial Guards were not exactly a super unit. In fact during the battle for Singapore, they wanted to withdraw back to Johore when their troops were caught in a sea of burning fuel at Kranji, only to find out that it was a false alarm.... only a small section of the sea was set on fire...