| Operasi Zipper | |||||||
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| Bagian dari Perang Dunia Kedua | |||||||
 Laksamana Muda Jisaku Uozumi menandatangani dokumen kapitulasi di atas kapal HMS Nelson pada 2 September 1945.[1] | |||||||
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| Pihak terlibat | |||||||
| Tokoh dan pemimpin | |||||||
 Harold Walker[3] Ouvry Roberts |
 Jisaku Uozumi (POW) | ||||||
| Kekuatan | |||||||
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42,651 infanteri[4] 2 escort carriers 1 kapal tempur 1 light cruiser 3 destroyers 3 troopships[5] | 26,000 infanteri[6] | ||||||
| Korban | |||||||
| Tidak ada | 26,000 ditangkap | ||||||
Operasi Zipper adalah sebuah operasi militer yang direncanakan oleh Britania Raya untuk menaklukkan Pelabuhan Swettenham atau Pelabuhan Dickson di semenanjung Malaya selama Perang Dunia II. Tujuan utama dari Operasi Zipper ialah mengawali upaya penaklukan kembali atas Singapura yang dikuasai oleh Kekaisaran Jepang selama Perang Dunia II. Namun Operasi Zipper tidak pernah terlaksana karena perang di kawasan Asia Pasifik berakhir dengan kekalahan Jepang.
Referensi
- ↑ "After some delay, and a failure to attend an earlier meeting, the Japanese local commander, Rear Admiral Jisaku Uzumi, came aboard HMS Nelson on the evening of 2 September, wearing the DSC he had earned as Britain's ally in the 1914-18 war, and surrendered the garrison. He fainted and was rushed to hospital; the military policemen who carried him there took his sword as a souvenir." Bayly & Harper, page 49
- ↑ Operation Zipper: The Invasion of Malaya, August 1945, diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2010-11-28, diakses tanggal 2015-12-07
- ↑ Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker, RN
- ↑ 46 Indian Beach Group, Morib
- ↑ HMS NELSON - Nelson-class 16in gun Battleship
- ↑ "The real Japanese surrender" (PDF). The Sunday Times. 2005-09-04. Diarsipkan dari asli (PDF) tanggal 2008-01-19. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-09.
Daftar pustaka
- Bose, Romen, "The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the aftermath of the Second World War", Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2005
- Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, "Forgotten Wars: Freedom And Revolution in Southeast Asia", Penguin Group, United Kingdom, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-02153-2, ISBN 0-674-02153-3