Bombing of Singapore (1941)

Bombing of Singapore
Part of the Malayan Campaign, Pacific War
A dead civilian lying on the floor of a five-foot way along South Bridge Road, victim of the Japanese air attack on Singapore.
Date 8 December 1941 Location Singapore Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Straits Settlements Dalforce	Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Units involved
Malaya Command	Mihoro Air Group
Strength
Various number of anti-aircraft guns 1 battleship 1 battlecruiser	17 aircraft[1]
Casualties and losses
61 killed 133 wounded	N/A

The bombing of Singapore was an attack on 8 December 1941 by seventeen G3M Nell bombers of Mihoro Air Group (Mihoro Kaigun Kōkūtai),^[2] Imperial Japanese Navy, flying from Thu Dau Mot in southern Indochina. The attack began at around 0430, shortly after Japanese forces landed on Kota Bharu, Kelantan in northern Malaya.^[3] It was the first knowledge the Singapore population had that war had broken out in the Far East.^[3]