Postcards released after the Japanese occupation of Singapore in 1942 depict the Japanese marching towards Singapore along the Malay Peninsula. The postcard was misleading, when Large Palm Rubber Plantations in Singapore were an obstacle for Japanese heavy tanks and much of the Japanese advance into Singapore was by bicycles and light armored vehicles.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invaded Southeast Asia, and on February 15, 1942, the colonial government of Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.
Postcard of the HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the Japanese in 1941.
In the second half of 1941, the situation of Japan's southern invasion of Southeast Asia became increasingly dangerous, and in order to curb Japan's deterrent power from going south, the British Navy also sent the Z Fleet headed by the battleship Prince of Wales to the Far East in accordance with the requirements of the Atlantic Charter. On 9 December, after being spotted by Japanese aircraft, the Z Fleet was attacked by Japanese aircraft. On 10 December, the battleship Prince of Wales was hit by six torpedoes and sank at 14:20.
Construction began on 2 January 1937, the battleship Prince of Wales was launched on 3 May 1939 and completed on 31 March 1941. As soon as he entered service, he participated in the battle to annihilate the Battleship Bismarck of the German Navy, and then carried Prime Minister Churchill to the United States with war wounds and signed the famous Atlantic Charter. It was sunk on December 10, which can be described as a short lifespan.
A postcard issued by the Japanese army in 1943, with the prospect of Johor Bahru in Malaya and the Woodlands district of Singapore in the distance.
After the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the Japanese general "Tiger of The Malays" Yamashita Bongwen renamed Singapore Akinan Island (the Island of Light of the Guide, or territory acquired by Emperor Showa in the South China Sea). Administratively, Singapore became part of the Empire of Japan as the "Akinan Special City". Therefore, the Period of Japanese Rule in Singapore is also known as the Shōnan Period.
In 1942, Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" propaganda postcard, the scope of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" included East Asia, the Russian Far East, Southeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia and other places.
Facts have proved that the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" promoted by the Japanese devils is nothing more than a yellow sorghum dream.