...Although unable to assist regarding 100sqn in Malaya - as already touched
upon the events there in 1942 have been described as Britains greatest
military defeat. The much vaunted 'Fortress Singapore' being none other than a myth - the result of years of inter services squabble with senior
officers more interested in arranging cricket matches on the Padang - Scoffing and deriding the one Scottish Regt that took training its men in
jungle war training seriously. Upon the final surrender Churchill - who was deeply implicated with others for the complacency and its lack of defences would later remark 'I had no more assumed that Singapore was derelict of defences than I would have considered a battleship to have been launched without a bottom".
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