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Units & People
What happened at Alexandra Hospital on Valentine's Day 1942? The forgotten massacre of patients and medical staff during the Fall of Singapore.
Units & People
From the battalion’s formation in New South Wales to its service in Malaya and Singapore.
Battles
The January 1942 engagement at Gemencheh and its place in the retreat through Malaya.
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Campaigns
A short account of the landings, the retreat down the peninsula and the surrender in February 1942.
Maps & Timelines
A companion to the archive’s chronology and its selected locations.
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Battles
The final days of the campaign and the surrender at the Ford Motor Factory.
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Equipment
An archival photograph of No. 453 Squadron RAAF before the Japanese landings.
Research Archive
Japanese artillery in Malaya ranged from portable mountain guns to the Type 96 15cm howitzer, giving the infantry close fire support and the power to smash British positions.
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From the Blogger archive: The Japanese Schindler? Mamoru Shinozaki
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: The Footnote That Started a Novel The LAST SWADDIE: The Argylls
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From the Blogger archive: The Last Swaddie: Malaya: The Last Stand of a Forgotten Soldier. Out today.
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From the Blogger archive: Z Force. The elite forces born out of the Malaya war.
Battles
From the Blogger archive: From the 1942 Malaya Desk: How We Helped Bring "The Last Swaddie" to Life
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From the Blogger archive: Story of Operation Jaywick – Malaya's Daring Raid
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From the Blogger archive: The Tiger and the Rabbit: Yamashita vs Percival
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: The Hidden Story of Survival During the Japanese Occupation
Battles
From the Blogger archive: The "Flying Coffin" that Defied the Rising Sun
Battles
From the Blogger archive: The Shadow Warriors: How Japan's Kempeitai Network Conquered Malaya before invasion
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: How a Black Ops Battalion Became the Ghosts of the Malayan Jungle
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From the Blogger archive: Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen. The Malayan Prince who dared to confront the brutal Japanese
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: A Unit 731 in Malaya? Yes, a deadly bio-lab that was buried...
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: The Lion Who Terrorised the Japanese Empire: Gurchan Singh
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: The Sook Ching mastermind Who Vanished: The Escape of Masanobu Tsuji
Battles
From the Blogger archive: Sook Ching: The Japanese Massacres in Malaya and Singapore That the World Forgot
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: ‘We Were Abandoned’: The Day the British Empire Turned Its Back on Penang
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: The War in Colour: Seeing 1942 Malaya Through Fresh Eyes
Battles
From the Blogger archive: The Untold Story of the Battle of Kampar: Where the Japanese Blitzkrieg Was Stopped
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: Colonel Lord Sempill: Did he gave Japan the Secrets of Pearl Harbor?
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From the Blogger archive: Singapore 1942: End of Empire Video
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From the Blogger archive: Lanchester 6X4 Mk2 in Full Colour
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Here a new WW2 story on "The Fighting Girlfriend" Mariya Oktyabrskaya. I like it because it uses Ai to restore the black and white footages of th...
Battles
From the Blogger archive: No. 100 Squadron RAF. "Sarang Tebuan Jangan Dijolok".
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From the Blogger archive: Batu Caves. A secret Ammo Dump. Did you know?
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From the Blogger archive: The Singapore Grip. "A colony run by idiots" JG Farrell
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From the Blogger archive: Force 136 Part 2 - The Canadians in Force 136
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From the Blogger archive: Hurricane Squadron Over Malaya: The Untold Story of SQ 243 and 453
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From the Blogger archive: Redemption. The war criminals Malaya Singapore.
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From the Blogger archive: Sgt Buntain's Diary. Who says no Zeros were shot down over Malaya
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From the Blogger archive: The British Tactics. Confidence or Doomed
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Its been a good many years since I left the blog but amazingly, I still have visitors till today. One of the reasons why I didn't close off this blog. On social media, I do see some similar themes tha...
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From the Blogger archive: Colonel Sempill - The Spy that helped the Japanese Empire
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: Marmon Herrington & Bedford QLT
Battles
Here's a very interesting documentary that sheds new information about the invasion from Malaya downwards to Singapore. It pits both General Percival against General Yamashita in both t...
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Kuantan is a coastal town on the east coast of the Peninsula. Not much is mention about the battle that took place here at the start of the war. Its actually the 2nd wave of Japanese landings immediat...
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From the Blogger archive: 1942Malaya celebrates 20,000 visits
Battles
From the Blogger archive: Malaya: 1st allied casualty of the Pacific War not Pearl Harbour
Battles
From the Blogger archive: Battle Box Fort Canning Singapore
Battles
From the Blogger archive: G3m Nell that crashed in Kota Bharu
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-11th Infantry Regiment
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From the Blogger archive: citations of the Japanese Army-Itabana Platoon
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-Saeki Tank Unit
Equipment
From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-Shimada Tank Company
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From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-18th Division
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From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-5th Division
Units & People
From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-Gotanda Tank Company
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From the Blogger archive: Citations of the Japanese Army-Ogaki Battalion
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From the Blogger archive: Thanks for visiting and contributing!
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From the Blogger archive: Lieutenant Sadanobu Watanabe and Japan's Lightning Strike
Battles
From the Blogger archive: Was your school a japanese HQ & Torture Chamber
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From the Blogger archive: 64 years since the end of the war
Battles
Here are some shots of the Army Museum in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan. I find the Museum rather interesting. The displays are well sorted out. There are quite a number of WW2 artifacts. A universal...
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Here's a rather rarely seen footage on the war in Malaya. Interesting to see the British artillery in action. Shirtless but wearing a vest that looks like a poison gas mask.
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From the Blogger archive: Local Heroine Sybil Kathigasu
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From the Blogger archive: U boats and submarines all in Penang
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From the Blogger archive: Captured or copied military vehicles
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From the Blogger archive: Brigadier Arthur Edward Cumming
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Found a nice video about the Japanese weapons during ww2. Now we can see and hear how the weapons performed in the old days via videos. Towards the end of the video there's a section on the portable m...
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From the Blogger archive: Italian Breda 47mm Anti-Tank Gun
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From the Blogger archive: The Tank Squadron that came too late
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From the Blogger archive: Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car
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From the Blogger archive: The IJA 18th Division aka Chrysanthemum Division
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From the Blogger archive: Japanese Mitsubishi G3M Bomber wreck off Kuantan
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From the Blogger archive: Penang War Museum - Bukit Maung
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From the Blogger archive: British Commonwealth Infantry weapons
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From the Blogger archive: Japanese Army Infantry weapons
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From the Blogger archive: Controversy surrounding the AIF - The Deserters
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From the Blogger archive: Indian Nationalist Army - Another thorn on the British Empire
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From the Blogger archive: Major General Gordon Bennett AIF
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From the Blogger archive: Captain Patrick Heenan - Japanese Spy
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From the Blogger archive: Australian Local Pattern Universal Carriers - LP2 and 2A
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From the Blogger archive: Commonwealth Universal carriers
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From the Blogger archive: Indian Armoured Carrier Wheeled (ACV-IP)
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From the Blogger archive: Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II
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From the Blogger archive: Battle of Malaya - Documentary
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From the Blogger archive: Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman
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From the Blogger archive: IJA Imperial Japanese Army - 25th Army
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From the Blogger archive: Japanese Sook Ching massacres - Parit Tinggi
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Senaling/Kuala Pilah massacre Kuala Pilah district, Negeri Sembilan State In 1942, Japanese Imperial Army carried out three bloody massacres in Kuala Pilah district Senaling area. Total nu...
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From the Blogger archive: Japanese Sook Ching massacres - Sungai Lui
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From the Blogger archive: Japanese Sook Ching massacres - Titi
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From the Blogger archive: Pre war British Administration Buildings
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From the Blogger archive: The Aussies - 8th division 22nd & 27th Brigade
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From the Blogger archive: The Forgotten Horror: The Japanese Army Comfort Station of Kuala Pilah
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From the Blogger archive: Battle of Malaya - British Army in colour
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From the Blogger archive: British QF 2-pounder gun, anti-tank.
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From the Blogger archive: Lanchester Mark II Armoured Car
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From the Blogger archive: Type 95 Ha-Gō (九五式軽戦車 ハ号 Kyugoshiki keisensha Ha-Gō)
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From the Blogger archive: Type 97 Chi-Ha (九七式中戦車 Kyunana-shiki chu-sensha)
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From the Blogger archive: Ian MacAlister Stewart - Commander of 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
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From the Blogger archive: Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi - The movie
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From the Blogger archive: Local war hero - Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi
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From the Blogger archive: Battle of Malaya - Map of invasion
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The town of Sungai Lembing lies 42 kilometers from Kuantan town. Historically, Sungai Lembing was a rich and famous town, as the main producer of tin in Pahang. It was called as the East El-Dorado i...
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From the Blogger archive: ARTHUR STEWART KING SCARF 1st VC
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From the Blogger archive: Lt Col Charles Anderson VC Battle of Muar
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General Percival Commander of the British Army
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From the Blogger archive: Pre War buildings still preserved today
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From the Blogger archive: RAF Bristol Bleinhem Alor Star
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From the Blogger archive: RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter
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From the Blogger archive: The British defense of Malaya
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The Japanese advance through the Far East. By the end of January, the RAF and other British and allied forces had withdrawn from Malaya and Singapore to Sumatra. Two weeks later, the enemy captured Pa...
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I'm sure there are many who has in their possesions old photographs of the war in Malaya. If you do and wish to share them, please send them to me so I can post them here. Post all images to: shangboy...
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I'm a great fan of Malayan history and for me creating this blog helps to preserve some of the stories that happened during the war. It's been more than 60 years ago and in some ways Malaysians in gen...
