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Battle of Singapore
Part of the Pacific War
Date 1–25 February 1942
(24 days)
Location Singapore, Straits Settlements
Result Allied victory
•Empire of Japan has failed to capture Singapore
Belligerents
British Empire
  • British India
  • British Malay

Australia
United States

Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Arthur Percival
Gordon Bennett
Lewis Heath
Merton Beckwith-Smith
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Robert Mansergh

Alexander Vandegrift
Clifton B. Cates

Tomoyuki Yamashita
Takuma Nishimura
Takuro Matsui
Renya Mutaguchi
Seishirō Itagaki (POW)
Shigeru Fukudome (POW)
Strength
85,000 troops

38 guns
225+ trucks
25 AFVs
26 anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns
7 fortress guns
1 escort carrier
1 battleship
2 destroyers
2 merchant vessels
5 landing ship, infantry

34,567 troops

55 artillery pieces
375 trucks
1 destroyer

Casualties and losses
11,539–11,606

1,539–1,606 killed
10,000 wounded and captured

28,429

18,047 killed
10,344 wounded and captured
38 suicides