Reflections at Bukit Chandu
WWII museum honouring the Malay Regiment's last stand against Japan on Opium Hill in 1942.
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This guide to Reflections at Bukit Chandu in Singapore returns to February 1942, when Second Lieutenant Adnan Saidi and forty-two men of the Malay Regiment dug in on this ridge as the Japanese Imperial Army pushed toward the city. You'll hear about the afternoon a column of soldiers in turbans appeared at the bottom of the hill, and the one detail in their marching formation that gave Adnan pause. The colonial bungalow behind you opened as a museum in 2002 to keep the story from fading into the undergrowth.
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