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.
Date8 December 1941
Location
Singapore
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents

 United Kingdom

Dalforce

 Japan

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]

  1. ^ First bomb raid on Singapore, Chua, Alvin, 25 November 2014, archived from the original on 26 December 2008, retrieved 20 January 2010
  2. ^ Full text of "ZERO!", E. P. Dutton & Co. r Inc., retrieved 20 January 2010
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Owen 1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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