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After more than 100 years of colonial rule, in 1941 the flames of independence were lit when Japan bombed Singapore.

Singapore the bastion of the British Empire fell in just 70 days. It was Japan鈥檚 greatest victory and Britain鈥檚 most humiliating defeat of World War 2.

The fall of Singapore changed the face of South East Asia forever and heralded the beginning of the end of the British Empire.