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Hello readers of Pacific History Guide! Today we're going to take a brief look at a historic site in the center of Singapore - the grounds of the Ford Motor Company factory. It was here, on 15 February 1942, that the British General Sir Arthur Percival surrendered Singapore to the Japanese under General Yamashita Tomoyuki. The capture of Malaya, the fall of Singapore and Hong Kong, and the subsequent defeat of ABDA all came to define Japanese superiority in Southeast Asia du

As many of you know, getting folks connected with local and regional history is the primary focus of Pacific History Guide. This effort is effectively a list of locations in the form of clickable links that point toward official websites, and another part is the official PHG Google Maps . The links have been added to the site in no particular order, and while some of you may have found a pattern to the way they've been added, it may not make sense to everybody. To solve this

As promised, I've been working on building more locations for the Pacific History Guide, and this week I'm proud to unveil Singapore !...