Japan advances
1941, Japanese forces move closer to Singapore, bombing random towns across the Asian peninsular on route
Singapore prepares
Malayan police in Singapore engage in military practise...
Captured at Singapore
Lance-Corporal John Wyatt remembers the despair he felt as he was taken off into four years of brutal captivity under the Jap...
Refugees in Hong Kong
Nearly three quarters of a million Chinese seek refuge in Hong Kong as a result of the horrors of war...
The loss of Singapore
Prof Richard Overy explains how rapid Japanese conquests in early 1942 were possible because European powers were preoccupied...
British humiliation at Singapore
Dr Duncan Anderson argues that the nature of the fall of Singapore was disastrous for British prestige in the Far East...
Japan advances
1941, Japanese forces move closer to Singapore, bombing random towns across the Asian peninsular on route...
Hong Kong
Two veterans of the Hong Kong garrison describe the harrowing events of Christmas 1941...
Japanese raid on Singapore
Women and children are evacuated from Singapore by sea as the Japanese draw near. Later, the aftermath of a bombing raid in t...
Singapore massacre
Lance-Corporal John Wyatt recounts the horrors of being taken prisoner by Japanese forces in 1942...
Refugees from Singapore arrive in Egypt
Footage of the destitution of refugees coming from Singapore to Egypt...
News from Singapore
The Allies work hard to fight the Japanese in and around Singapore, but life nevertheless goes on as displayed by footage of ...
Japanese attack on Hong Kong
Footage from inside the cockpit up in the skies as Japanese soldiers take to the skies and attack Hong Kong...
Hong Kong reinforced 1941
Canadian troops arrive in Hong Kong to help the city fight back...
Australians arrive in Singapore
Thousands of Australians arrive in Singapore to guard Britain's naval base against the Japanese...
The fall of Singapore
Dr Duncan Anderson explains how lack of leadership contributed to the loss of British Singapore to the Japanese in 1942...
Japan attacks the Allies
Japan attacks US and British bases in the Pacific in December 1941and the danger of invasion is felt on the American coasts...
