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A
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Major events of this period
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| War-time
heavy metal makes you think of deadly tanks,
war-planes and submarines. But it was the
humble bicycle that actually helped the
Japanese conquer Malaya. |
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| The horror of the Japanese
Occupation is captured in a forthcoming movie
on women prisoners of war. It is set in
Singapore, Penang and Australia. |
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Click
to view a clip of the first
Singapore-funded Hollywood movie
Video courtesy of Golden
Village |
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The war years


No one
thought an Asian
power could
defeat the
British Raj.


MOSES:
Cyber time traveller

Look
at what
the headlines
said
 Singapore must
stand; it SHALL stand.

The
War years
were also
the Hungry
years. If I had
been around
then, I sure
die of hunger!


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