Singapore: The Greatest Disaster In British Military History | Battlefield | War Stories

They got small ball general more coward then a chicken

There's no concern or interest in Malay and vice versa..

Simply says i don't know

To be or being what I thought and remember still..

I am not really expecting and hoping where is to find..

It was not really notify until these days where to find foo or toe..

It was matter of second Singapore others under Japan Nihongo Dai Nippon banners

A very dubious apologia. The imperial defeat at Singapore ranks with the Graziani's defeat in NA as one of the most one-sided campaigns in WW2.

the same mr Percival who waged terrorism in county Cork in the 1920th

The desaster was farmore worse than only the surrender.all nations in the Empire recognized the british weren`that superior master race they showed off for decades and within a few years the British Empire was gone.

15.48 to 15.45 Does that ring any bells now, ie Falklands, Iraq, Afghanistan? Now did Logistics have a big place in this Battle? 130,000 troops with no ammunition are useless.. Big guns, Artillery Support is meaningless with no Rounds.Where was the Ammo?

USELESS BRITISH ARMY.

Vast majority of " British " troops were Indians. They caved in to the Japs easily. They had no love for whites especially the British. They lost Singapore, along with Churchill not supplying air cover to PoW and Repulse

How can you say the British were not trained for the environment. They were stationed there! It is like saying the Canadian army is not trained for winter warfare. The British leadership was criminally negligent.

The worst British mistake was that Japanese had obtained information on the status of the British defenses in Singapore... As in, those reports from 1937...

😅😅 white man troops
where is picture Gurkha and Indian British troops.

The Boers also kicked their a@ses. They think they are invincable.

A rear-facing machinegun on a Japanese tank? I'm surprised the French didn't think of that... 😏

Noooo I can't believe this : english surrendering ...!! 😂😂 I would have never thought about seeing it :-)

The place at the start of this video where the British officers surrendered is the Former Ford Factory, where the Japanese headquarters were. They are shown walking up the driveway from the road. There's a WW2 museum there now

The landing at Kota Bahru occurred about 45 minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Date line makes it appear a day later. 4 of the 5 15" guns could fire inland and some did, but most of their ammunition was antiship not suitable for land targets. Curiously Percival had been a member of the survey in 1937 which pointed out that the Malayan jungle was not a reliable defensive shield.

To me..the fall of Singapore best exemplified the saying
"Its not about the size of the dog in a fight but the size of the fight in the dog".

The british..given their manpower firepower superiority should have easily won this battle..but the Japanese despite being outnumbered and out gunned..had that will power and drive to come out victorious. The fact that the Brits underestimated and even looked down at the Japs played a role in the outcome that eventuated.

I mean yea the Japs were messed up for their atrocities but for this battle from a military perspective it was nothing short of a exceptional case.

Those that fail to learn from history.....are bound to repeat it. Current Australian politicians of all persuasions should watch this....repeatedly, till the bedwetting incompetence of the 1930,s sinks in.

Changi Naval base was competed in 1938?? 😮

The Suez Crisis was a much greater defeat.

Churchill caused the Fall of Singapore.

Thanks to British failure, the local population was at the mercy of the Japs. My grandfather was a teenager when he was sent to a labour camp. He bore a scar on his shin from a brutal beating he got from his guards, till the day he passed. His brother was not so lucky; he was a teacher, seen as an intellectual who was perceived to be an activist and sent to the Death Railway where he died from starvation. As Singaporeans we are thankful and grateful for this episode; we learnt an invaluable lesson… that we need to rise as a nation and protect ourselves and not rely on outsiders who flee at first sight of danger.

Churchill sent valuable aircraft
And tanks to russia rather than far east
However the japanese surrendered singapore
In sept45 back to britain
Without a fight obeying
Emperors orders!

Percival..is not my fault!!

First war world 2 allies was inpreparated and their weapons were oldest but most important their supreme command dont believed many things about japs..but in 1942 the things changed...after coral sea battle and guadalcanal!!in 1945 the tiger of malaya surrender to principale and wanwright generals...and death by hanging...this is the end of the story

The sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales was the first time capital ships had been sunk from the air in combat. Billy Mitchell had done it with a captured WWI battleship years before.

Pearl Harbor is located in the Hawaiian Islands on the island of Oahu, not Hawaii.

Fatty general yamashita

William Slim, Archibald Wavell amd Mr Aunchinleck, were amazing determined Commanders, who are not like the stuboorn cow that Was Winston and His subordinate Brock.

Uk the greatest conqueror n looters n trouble maker during their time .n beg for help from the US during WWll or else history knows best

Britains Irish colony and scottish colony and canadian colony were NOT sad that their colonial rulers lost their singapore colony

The communist chinese army today is behaving like the Japanese army in WW2 - then a nuclear bomb was dropped on top of them

They are still a disaster

Indian soldiers who had taken an oath to serve the British, and had refused to join the INA under Bose, were refused a pension on return to India.

80 000 troops surrender to a handful of Japanese, this is the main reason why Singapore wanted to be out from Britain.

Warms the cockles of my heart to watch the British surrendering to the Japs. 😊😅😂🎉 👏

Overconfident Brit.....they lost to short and chubby people....

How can the British surrendered when the British/Allies have overwhelming military manpower and firepower over the invading Japanese??? Where is the logic???
1. The British had a bad, inexperienced General in charge. Then, let History reflect this.
2. The British are not willing to bleed blood for Foreign Asian soil - as per US/Vietnam war.
~ note, after Japanese victory in Singapore, the Japanese started the Sook Ching Massacre. The Japanese occupied soldiers took local chinese civilians to machine guns in mass graves in retaliation for Singapore Chinese war supports in China. It is estimated 60,000 of local chinese Singaporeans/Malaysians were massacred. Our late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was a survivor of this Sook Ching Massacre.
~ as a Singaporean, we will never ever depend on another nation to defend our soil. Every Singaporean mothers’ son is a conscripted soldier and we will fight to death for every ounce of Singapore dirt.

MIstake in this film : British Gen. Percival died, after a long life, not in1946 but in 1966.

Defeated largely by our inherent racism!

During the last days of the War... embolden by Japan's coming surrender, some cheeky Chinese butchers in the wet market began to mock the Japanese... and were promptly executed by decapitation.

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British men were always weak….

without atomic bomb, Japanese Army still being empire in Pacific I guess..
the spirit and their tactical in war in Malaya invasion, Pearl Harbor bombed and Pacific war like Guadalcanal also the D-Day version 2 at Iwo Jima..
we must learned this history, DONT UNDERESTIMATED our enemy