{"title":"Sentosa","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"japanese-map-of-british-defences-of-fortress-singapore-asahi-shimbun-ww2-1942-p-7-028489","title":"Japanese map of British defences of Fortress Singapore—Asahi Shimbun—WW2 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eシンガポール要塞防備要圖 [Outline map of the defences of Singapore Fortress]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJapan’s own picture of “Fortress Singapore”, mapped battery by battery, appears in this detailed defence plan, published in November 1942 in an Army Ministry-sponsored history of the Malaya campaign, nearly nine months after the British surrender. Its legend distinguishes coastal batteries, anti-aircraft guns, machine-gun posts, searchlights, pillboxes, barbed-wire entanglements, oil tanks, fortified zones and military and civil airfields, and even separates known positions from those only anticipated, a revealing glimpse of the intelligence work behind the victory. The airfields at Tengah, Sembawang and Seletar, the naval base and its docks, underground oil storage, the reservoirs and the waterworks fill the island; fortified zones ring the high ground of Bukit Timah, and minefields are hatched across the approaches. Batteries guard Changi, Pulau Tekong and Pulau Ubin in the east and Pengerang across the water in Johore, with more on Blakang Mati, today’s Sentosa, and neighbouring Pulau Brani. Fort Canning is marked as a battery; beneath it lay the Battle Box, the bunker in which Percival’s command decided to surrender on 15 February 1942. A note records positions and obstacles built along the shore, above and below the waterline. To the north, Johore Bahru and the Causeway frame the strait that Japanese troops crossed on the night of 8 February. Issued as one of two folding maps in the Malaya volume of Asahi Shimbun’s History of the Greater East Asia War, the plan carries a plain message: the more formidable the fortress, the greater the conquest. Printed in black, its dense symbols make a striking image of a colonial stronghold seen through its conquerors’ eyes. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891546971,"sku":"P-7-028489","price":340.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028489a.jpg?v=1791486041"},{"product_id":"death-throes-fall-of-singapore-pictorial-war-map-shukan-asahi-1st-february-1942-p-7-028494","title":"Death throes!—Fall of Singapore pictorial war map—Shūkan Asahi—1st February 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e斷末魔の喘ぎ！ [Gasping in its Death throes!]; illustration to シンガポール攻略とその後 [The capture of Singapore and what follows]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Death throes!” crows the headline over this small Japanese pictorial map, published on 1 February 1942 as Singapore braced for the final assault. An aircraft looms over the island, whose airfields, oil tanks, wireless stations, reservoirs and naval base are laid out as targets, with the city and Fort Canning on the southern harbour and Blakang Mati, today’s Sentosa, offshore. Below, Shūkan Asahi opens a round-table discussion titled “The capture of Singapore and what follows”, confidently planning for victory two weeks before the British surrender. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891710811,"sku":"P-7-028494","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028494a.jpg?v=1791486043"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/sentosa.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}