"It is commonly said that the guns could not fire on the Japanese forces because they had been designed only to face south, but this is not so, although the lack of H.E. ammunition was an error of the same sort and possibly due to the belief that an invading army couldn't come from the north." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_SingaporeOla Häggström skrev:Singapores befästningar (mot landsidan).
Annors var slaget ett stort fiasko för England med tanke på styrkeförhållandena (England 85000/Japan 36000).
Man skulle nästan vilja säga att hela början av kriget (Frankrike, Norge, Singapore etc) var ett stort fiasko för England.