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How this helped win the war

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.

How many bicycles were used in the Malaya campaign of the Japanese Army?

Click to find out the answer


The route taken by the Japs through Malaya to Singapore
Paradise Road
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.
real video Click to view a clip of the first Singapore-funded Hollywood movie
Video courtesy of Golden Village
Did
this man
cause the
fall of Singapore?
Churchill

Yes
No!
YAK!
YAK!


LIFELINES:

For me, the war was a virtual disaster

T.S. Khoo was a rising reporter when the Japs bombed his office
Click to hear T.S. talk about his experience

TSKhoo as a reporter
His story
Battle Box Plane-spotting nine metres underground

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The story

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

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MOSES:
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Look at what
the headlines
said

Strong Jap pressure
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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get to live.
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to the past

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