AIR COVER was provided by only ten Hawker Hurricane fighters of RAF No. 232 Squadron based at Kallang Airfield. This was because Tengah, Seletar and Sembawang were in range of Japanese artillery at Johor Bahru. The shooting went on until Kallang Airfield was so pitted with bomb craters that it was no longer usable.
JAPANESE BREAKTHROUGH. The British tried many other ways to attack the Japanese with the weapons but it was no use.
ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL MASSACRE. On 14 February, the Japanese soldiers advanced towards Alexandra Barracks Hospital. A British lieutenant acting as an envoy with a white flag approached the Japanese forces but staff. The next day about 200 male staff members and patients who had been assembled and bounded the previous day were walking wound, were ordered to walk about 400m to an idustrial area. Anyone who fell on the way was bayoneted. The men were forced into a series of small, badly ventilated rooms and were imprisoned overnight without water. Some died during the night as a result of their treatment. The remainder were bayoneted the following morning.
FALL OF SINGAPORE. On 15 February 1942, the Japanese had broken through the last line of defence and the Allies were running out of food and ammunition. The anti-aircraft guns had also run out of ammunition and were unable to repel any further Japanese air attacks which threatened to cause heavy casualities in the city which causes chaos. The British and the Japanese were to signed a agreement and the Japanese Raising Sun Flag be hoisted over the tallest building in Singapore.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore (Date accessed: 14-02-13)
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