Bombing of Singapore (1941)

Bombing of Singapore
	Part of the Malayan Campaign, Pacific War
	; A dead civilian lying on the floor of a five-foot way along South Bridge Road, victim of the Japanese air attack on Singapore.
Date	8 December 1941
Location	Singapore
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
United Kingdom Straits Settlements; Dalforce	Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service;
Units involved
Malaya Command	Mihoro Air Group
Strength
Various number of anti-aircraft guns; 1 battleship; 1 battlecruiser	17 aircraft
Casualties and losses
61 killed; 133 wounded	N/A

The bombing of Singapore was an attack on 8 December 1941 by seventeen G3M Nell bombers of Mihoro Air Group (Mihoro Kaigun Kōkūtai),^[2] Imperial Japanese Navy, flying from Thu Dau Mot in southern Indochina. The attack began at around 0430, shortly after Japanese forces landed on Kota Bharu, Kelantan in northern Malaya.^[3] It was the first knowledge the Singapore population had that war had broken out in the Far East.^[3]

^ First bomb raid on Singapore, Chua, Alvin, 25 November 2014, archived from the original on 26 December 2008, retrieved 20 January 2010
^ Full text of "ZERO!", E. P. Dutton & Co. r Inc., retrieved 20 January 2010
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