Dimensions
177 x 214 x 28mm
The surrender of Singapore on the 15th of February 1942, with the capture of over 120,000 men, was the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history, and the highpoint in Japanese expansion in South East Asia. It graphically exposed the military weakness of the British empire and its inability to defend its far Eastern colonies. The defeat left Australia exposed to Japanese invasion, its protection in the future dependent on American arms.
