""… the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". - Winston Churchill referring to the surrender of the British forces by General Arthur Ernest Percival to General Tomoyuki Yamashita's Japanese Imperial Army on 15 February 1942 in Singapore, which marked the beginning of three and a half years of Japanese Occupation of Singapore"
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