Timeline Sunday 8 February 1942

Events on Sunday 8 February 1942 1

• 1942 Fall of Singapore British Commonwealth garrison surrenders to Japan Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita crossed the Johor Strait on 8 February and took Singapore within a week. Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival surrendered on 15 February, and about 80,000 British, Indian and Australian troops became prisoners. Winston Churchill called it the worst disaster in British military history.