Pada Perang Dunia II, Operasi Zipper adalah sebuah rencana Inggris untuk menaklukan Pelabuhan Swettenham atau Pelabuhan Dickson, Malaya sebagai langkah untuk menaklukan kembali Singapura. Namun, karena akhir perang di Pasifik, rencana tersebut tidak pernah sepenuhnya tereksekusi.
Referensi
- ^ Operation Zipper: The Invasion of Malaya, August 1945, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-11-28, diakses tanggal 2015-12-07
- ^ "After some delay, and a failure to attend an earlier meeting, the Japanese local commander, Rear Admiral Jisaku Uzumi, came aboard HMS Nelson on the evening of 2 September, wearing the DSC he had earned as Britain's ally in the 1914-18 war, and surrendered the garrison. He fainted and was rushed to hospital; the military policemen who carried him there took his sword as a souvenir." Bayly & Harper, page 49
- ^ Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker, RN
- ^ 46 Indian Beach Group, Morib
- ^ HMS NELSON - Nelson-class 16in gun Battleship
- ^ "The real Japanese surrender" (PDF). The Sunday Times. 2005-09-04. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2008-01-19. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-09.
Daftar pustaka
- Bose, Romen, "The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the aftermath of the Second World War", Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2005
- Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, "Forgotten Wars: Freedom And Revolution in Southeast Asia", Penguin Group, United Kingdom, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-02153-2, ISBN 0-674-02153-3
