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Singapore Repulsed ISBN 185821-542-0 by Ordinary Seaman Ian Campbell Hay with a Foreword by Admiral Sir John Hayes KCB OBE This is about the Battle Cruiser HMS Repulse overwhelemed by 27 Squadrens of Japanese Aircraft in the Pacific on the 10th of December 1941 in what was to prove another of his many catastrophic blunders by Prime Minister Churchill.
[1] The SURRENDER to the Boers in South Africa after ordering his Battalion 'March towards the sound of gunfire'
[2] The SURRENDER on the beaches at Gallipolis in Turkey with great loss of life when he was First Lord of the Admiralty
[3] The SURRENDER on the beaches at Dunkirk in France from our hastily ill-equipped conscripped civilian Army for Churchill's chance to Political power after years in the wildrness and his speech to the Nation afterwards 'We will fight on the beaches and in the hills we will never surrender
[4] The SURRENDER on the beaches at Singapore of 5000 of our Troups well equipped to 2000 Japanese Troups ill-equipped exhausted after their long treck down through Malaya continually attacked by our Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the best traditions of our Highland Regiments with Bagpipes and Bayonets When the exhausted Japanese Troups finally arrived in Singapore it took them 3 days to accept the surrender they thought a trap
[5] The SURRENDER on the beaches on 'D'Day that would have happened if the Americans had not overruled Churchill's orders on what beaches to land
[6] Prime Minister Winston Churchill was rejected as a new entrant Midshipman in the Royal Navy as to not having command of all his facilities a medical bed ailment and a speech impediment
[7] His speech from the safety of the House of Commons and to the world at large 'The Royal Navy is ruled by rum sodomy and the lash'This was an outrage to the Officers Men and Seaman boys of which the author was one particularly so to Repulse's 200 boy Seamen and Repulse chosen for HM Royal Cruise
[8]The final blunder recorded in the Official Record Office London records Prime Minister Winston Churchill statement to his son Randolph flinging his razor angerly into the shaving bowl said 'I will drag America into the war by having the Japanese attack us by sending the crippled Battleship HMS Prince of Walea after her battle with the Bismarck and HMS Repulse battle cruiser to the Gulf of Saigon to tempt the old Japanese Fleet out The date 10th of December 1941 Japan was already at war the date 7th of December 1941
If the old Japanese Fleet had come out they would have stood little chance against Repulse's speed of 32 knts and 6 tons of high explosives landing on the target every minute from 6 15" Guns in three Turrets as stated by the Naval Historians
I can confirm this as having been the Centre Sight-Setter of Repulse's A Turrets Gun House Crew winning the Home Fleet competitions by blowing the target out of the water at 30 miles The Historians said it could have been Trafalgar again sadly their Aircraft found us on that fatal morning the 10th of December 1941 returning from Pearl Harbor
Escaping from Singapore to Australia he served on HMS Vansittart a V&W Class Destroyer in the battle of the Atlantic rising to Navigating Officer