Bombing of Singapore (1941)

Bombing of Singapore
	Part of the Malayan Campaign, Pacific War
	; A dead civilian lying on the floor of a five-foot way along South Bridge Road, victim of the Japanese air attack on Singapore.
Date	8 December 1941
Location	Singapore
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
United Kingdom Straits Settlements; Dalforce	Japan Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service;
Units involved
Malaya Command	Mihoro Air Group
Strength
Various number of anti-aircraft guns; 1 battleship; 1 battlecruiser	17 aircraft
Casualties and losses
61 killed; 133 wounded	N/A

The bombing of Singapore was an attack on 8 December 1941 by seventeen G3M Nell bombers of Mihoro Air Group (Mihoro Kaigun Kōkūtai), Imperial Japanese Navy, flying from Thu Dau Mot in southern Indochina. The attack began at around 0430, shortly after Japanese forces landed on Kota Bharu, Kelantan in northern Malaya. It was the first knowledge the Singapore population had that war had broken out in the Far East.

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