{"title":"Causeway","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":"ww2-fall-of-singapore-japanese-military-panorama-shukan-asahi-march-1942-map-p-7-028490","title":"WW2 Fall of Singapore—Japanese military panorama—Shūkan Asahi—March 1942 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e特輯 シンガポール [Special feature: Singapore]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo weeks after Singapore fell, Shūkan Asahi showed its readers the prize in a dramatic bird’s-eye view, looking south across the Johore Strait that Japanese troops had crossed on the night of 8 February. Under the headline “Special feature: Singapore”, aircraft mark the airfields, wireless masts tower over the island, and oil tanks, naval docks, coastal fortifications and reservoirs are laid out as an inventory of the British base Japan now held. Red roads carry the eye from the Causeway across the island. The black sea, pale land and bold red lettering, with a marginal slogan binding front line and home front, make this 1 March 1942 cover a striking piece of wartime design. 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":54274891514203,"sku":"P-7-028490","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028490a.jpg?v=1791486041"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/causeway.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}