Singapore - The British Empire

[drw61]

Thanks for the links

ORIGINAL: Feinder

Cool.

I found it. My old link was dead.

The "Wavell Report" - the official debrief of the Malay/Sing campaign written in May 1942. Very interesting reading. Granted, it's not as "even handed" as the more contemporary histories, but it certainly gives insight into the questions you're asking.

-F-

The Wavell Report

[borner]

if you could land a division just before the surrender, you could have landed that many ships worth of supplies. Defend the fortress and surrounding area well, and GB had more than enough troops to do this, and Singapore could have held out for months. You have to figure that eventually Japan's air power would have closed off the port, but as Feinder points out, they had not done that by the time of the surrender.
 
You have to wonder what would have happened a couple months later when the allies situation was a bit more stable, and the monsoon season was near

[kaleun]

bloody shambles (good title for a book).

It is so good there is one!
Bloody shambles, the air war over Malaya and Burma (or something like that) I have the first two volumes. A third volume came out a few years ago.