Battlefield - Pearl Harbour | Part 2 | Fall of Singapore

On the morning of 7th of December 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2000 US servicemen and sinking 19 ships. President Roosevelt called it “a day of infamy”, but the dye was cast. A chain of bloody events had been set in motion that would lead to the loss of thousands more lives, save Europe from the Nazis and ultimately see the first Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
During 1941 and 1942, under the baking Pacific sun, the world was introduced to the terrible power of the land of the Rising Sun. Japanese aggression, which had begun for the Allies at Pearl Harbor, led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. It had been Britain’s most important Eastern base – now a force of 130,000 men under the command of General Percival surrendered to General Yamashita. It was a low point for the Allies, and there was a hard road ahead – but a road that would culminate in the development of the atomic bomb and the crushing defeat of the seemingly invincible Japanese.

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