Honouring our military history

A comparison of the Segamat bridge now to how it was in the days of World War II. It was intentionally destroyed by Australian forces during the Malayan campaign to sabotage incoming Japanese forces. It was subsequently repaired. This is one of the sites suggested by Tan to be promoted through military tourism.

“DEC 7,1941. A date that will live on in infamy.” Most people are probably familiar with this famous line, delivered by United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the Empire of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

While that date does indeed deserve it’s reputation, a lot less people are aware of a similar event that happened around the same time. Dec 8,1941, was the beginning of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, with a Japanese invasion fleet landing at Kota Baru, Kelantan.