Fort Siloso
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Fort Siloso is a decommissioned coastal artillery battery in Sentosa, Singapore. It consists of 12 such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II, and saw action during
Fort Siloso entrance
Surrender Chambers in Fort Siloso
One of Fort Siloso's coastal-artillery guns
A 12-pounder gun at Fort Siloso facing the oil refineries on Pulau Bukom in Singapore's harbour. The view from this same gun would have been no different than back in WWII.
Singapore strategy
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The Singapore strategy was a naval defence policy of the United Kingdom that evolved in a series of war plans from 1919 to 1941. It aimed to deter aggression by Japan by providing a base for a fleet o
HMS Repulse leads her sister ship HMS Renown and other Royal Navy capital ships during manoeuvres in the 1920s
The troopship RMS Queen Mary in Singapore Graving Dock, August 1940
A British warship inside the Admiralty IX floating dry dock at Singapore Naval Base in September 1941
One of Singapore's 15-inch coastal defence guns elevated for firing