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When the Daily Planet gets a report that aliens had landed in Metropolis Park and are seeking Superman's aid, Clark Kent rushes off to change into the Man of Steel to see how he may assist the aliens. They ask him to go to a distant planet where an alien creature threatens their world. Sure enough, Superman deals with the alien threat. While on Earth, Batman and Robin go to Metropolis to cover for Superman's absence and smash up an operation to steal some priceless rugs.
When Superman returns to Earth, he shocks authorities when he starts smashing buildings and tosses a bunch of cops into the ocean with a giant spoon ripped off a silverware manufacturers building. Then the Man of Steel goes on a crime spree, stealing gold and silver items from museums around Metropolis. His thefts attract the attention of Batman and Robin who fail to stop him. Shortly after the spree, Superman would return with no memory of what happened then suddenly lose control again going on another crime spree. Finding something odd, and suspecting something might have happened to him in space. Batman uses his chem-o-detector to track Superman down and he and Robin are shocked to find that he is under the control of Luthor. Luthor and the man seeming to be Superman knocks Batman and Robin out and tie them up.
The crime sprees have created an anti-Superman sentiment in Metropolis and when Superman approaches Lois Lane, with no recollection of anything after his mission in space, attempts to help stop a fire and is told to go away. Soon a large advertising campaign asking for Superman to leave Metropolis sweeps the city, and the Man of Steel, completely hurt by the accusations decides to honor the requests of the people of Metropolis and leave the city.
As it turns out, Luthor has been working with the aliens and has been using a Superman Robot to commit the crimes that the real Superman has been blamed for. When Batman and Robin break free of their bonds and attempt to escape, Luthor sicks his Superman robot on them. However, before the fake Man of Steel can harm them, the real Superman arrives on the scene and smashes his robotic doppleganger and rounds up Luthor and the aliens. After clearing his name, the people of Metropolis accept Superman back with open arms and he is invited by some firemen to help put out a fire.
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Aquaman and Aqualad are hard-pressed to deal with a band of scuba-diving pirates when a shot of strange fumes from an undersea dragon-urn depletes their super-powers. But a second dose of the fumes restores Aquaman's powers, and he takes the opportunity to catch the crooks and then restore Aqualad's powers as well.
- "Superman's Secret Master" is reprinted in World's Finest #224 and Showcase Presents: World's Finest Vol. 2.
- "The Day That Aquaman Lost His Powers" is reprinted in DC Special Series #23 and Showcase Presents: Aquaman #2.
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- Batman (Volume 1)
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- All-Star Batman
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- Batman Confidential
- Batman: Gotham Knights
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Zachary Keck is a researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where he works on nuclear weapons, U.S. defense policy, and U.S.-China relations. Previously, he was the managing editor of The National Interest. Before that, he was the managing editor of The Diplomat, where he authored the Pacific Realist blog. Zachary has also interned on Capitol Hill and at the Center for a New American Security. He holds a BA in political science from SUNY New Paltz and an MA in political science from George Mason University.
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Kerrin Frey of River Falls, said she began working on the dress for her daughter Tara, now a senior at River Falls High School, six years ago after seeing moms tissue gum wrappers in a game hockey, KARE-TV, Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota, reported on Wednesday.
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Now that Battlestar Galactica is over, the stars of the hit SyFy drama are taking on new roles. From action-adventure to drama to comedy, the crew has the whole industry covered. A few main characters will appear in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, a made-for-TV movie airing November 1, 2009 on SyFy. In the meantime, check out some of their new projects.
Jamie Bamber
Was: Lee 'Apollo' Adama
Now: DS Matt Devlin on Law & Order: UK (2009); guest star (TBA) on the upcoming season of Dollhouse
After five years on BSG, the blue-eyed Brit headed back to the UK to play Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin on the first season of Law & Order: UK. Bamber will return to American television with a guest appearance on the season two premiere of Dollhouse.
James Callis
Was: Dr. Gaius Baltar
Now: Merlin in Merlin and the Book of Beasts (movie, 2009); Mason Duryea on Numb3rs (1 episode, 2009); Danny Rubins in Re-Uniting the Rubins (movie, 2009)
Callis will play Merlin in the movie project Merlin and the Book of Beasts (not to be confused with Merlin, a British show now airing on NBC). Callis has also signed on to play a completely different character -- one who has nothing to do with magic, fantasy, or action -- in the movie Re-Uniting the Rubins, a comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family.
Tricia Helfer
Was: Number Six, Cylon
Now: Naomi Tyler Moore in Them (movie, 2010); Lila in Open House (movie, 2010); an unnamed character on Human Target (2010); Rachel Carson in The Dealership (movie, 2009); Agent Bonnie Belski on Warehouse 13; Julia Carver in Hidden Crimes (movie, 2009); Number Six in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
A former supermodel, Helfer has one of the busiest schedules of all her former shipmates. Not only has she signed up for Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, but she's making a number of appearances in new made-for-TV movies and TV shows as well.
Mary McDonnell
Was: President Laura Roslin
Now: Beverly Miller in Jimmy Nolan (movie, 2010); Captain Sharon Raydor on The Closer; Rose Smithsonian in Lifetime's made-for-TV movies Hostile Makeover and Killer Hair (2009)
President Roslin has taken a few guest roles and smaller parts since the end of BSG, including a role on the Lifetime movie Hostile Makeover. But she'll be on the silver screen next year starring in Jimmy Nolan, a movie about an autistic teenage boy.
Edward James Olmos
Was: Admiral William Adama
Now: Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Olmos hasn't signed on for any TV shows yet, but will appear in two movies currently in development -- The Crystal Frontier and Cutting Sign. And, of course, we'll see his face in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.
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Chris Masters examines the issues surrounding the fall of Singapore - 60 years on.NEWSREEL: The civilised world reels beneath the news that Singapore -- proud, impregnable bastion will fall.
One of the last ships.
CHRIS MASTERS: Following the fall of Singapore, 60 years ago, stories began to trickle home -- stories that have never gone away.
DUNCAN FERGUSSON: It was Australians --
and they were pushing the women off, to go onto the boat.
CHRIS MASTERS: Tonight, Four Corners confronts the big questions that emerge from the debacle that ended the British Empire.
Why were Allied forces so comprehensively defeated and how much was desertion among Australian troops to blame?
PETER ELPHICK: I believe the Australian were the first to desert in any great numbers.
CHRIS MASTERS: This British author has named alleged Australian deserters.
We go in search of them.
So is it fair to say that you are a self-confessed deserter?
ROYDON CORNFORD: No.
CHRIS MASTERS: 60 years on -- is the Singapore story still too discomforting?
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: The loss of Singapore means leaving Australia -- at that time, white Australia, open, naked and vulnerable to the Asiatic hordes who could potentially walk into the big empty land and extinguish European civilisation on the Australian continent.
I think it was a bad shock that Australia has never really moved away from entirely.
CHRIS MASTERS: 60 years on -- how much do we live with scandal as well as the greatest defeat in Australian military history?
There are no monuments to be found here on this beach where Australians were fighting and dying before the first shots were fired at Pearl Harbor.
OSCAR DIAMOND, DFC, RAAF: I dropped a couple of bombs, uh --
on the first run which I think straddled it, but on the second run, we seemed to have hit it right in the middle with two bombs and there was a terrific explosion, so we knew that we'd done the job on it.
MASEO MAEDA (TRANSLATION): I was among the first troops who landed.
Eventually, only one-third of us made it through.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Japanese attack was part of a Pacific blitzkrieg designed to extinguish American power and overwhelm British and Dutch colonies.
The landing at Kota Bahru was part of a three-pronged attack on Malaya.
The Japanese planned to capture Singapore in 100 days.
MASEO MAEDA (TRANSLATION): In Kota Bahru, we captured the airport.
After we captured the Malayan airports, our fighters would be able to reach Singapore in five minutes.
DUNCAN FERGUSSON, 2/ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS: I says, "For the love of God," I says, "Infiltrating, there was thousands."
Well, it looked, you know, to me, thousands of them, uh -- columns and that.
And I says, "In the name of God," I says, "Your boys will never hold this lot up."
CHRIS MASTERS: The Allied airfields in Malaya had been located without consideration of the army's ability to defend them.
And when the navy put to sea to meet the Japanese, there was no air force to protect them.
Struggling to keep up with the British capital ships 'Prince of Wales' and 'Repulse' was the World War One vintage Australian destroyer, 'Vampire'.
VINCENT CESARI, HMAS 'VAMPIRE' ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY: We couldn't even fire a gun because the old guns we had on board were lashed up around about 1916, 1917, and they only had a 35-degree elevation.
And of course, like, it was a waste of time firing them.
CHRIS MASTERS: The 'Prince of Wales' and 'Repulse' were gone, sunk in a matter of minutes by Japanese aircraft.
VINCENT CESARI: In the water, it was devastation.
Like, being a big ship like that, the oil fuel which they run on has come out and spewed all over the ocean.
In amongst them was the, uh --
How would you put it?
..the survivors and those who did not survive.
NEWSREEL: Stronghold, naval base, strategic centre, Singapore is above all one of the ramparts of that freedom for which the British Empire stands.
Founded in 1819 --
CHRIS MASTERS: Two days into the war, the much-vaunted Singapore strategy was looking pale.
NEWSREEL: Torpedo carriers such as smashed the Italian fleet at Sorrento practise in the Straits of Johore.
CHRIS MASTERS: For 10 years, British and Australian propaganda had thundered the might of these outpost defences.
NEWSREEL: Yes, Singapore is well-equipped and prepared to deal with anything which may arise in the Far East.
PROF PETER DENNIS, UNSW at ADFA: I think it fooled a lot of the public.
It fooled some politicians who found in that promise the sort of assurance that got them off the hook from thinking more deeply about the very difficult problems of regional defence in this part of the world.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE: The Japanese certainly weren't fooled.
They knew very well how pregnable the fortress was.
Whitehall and the British Government certainly weren't fooled.
They knew very well that they were using an image and a myth to try and take the place of substance that wasn't there.
And again, to be frank, neither was Canberra.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Japanese had attacked when Britain had its back to the wall resisting Germany.
Australia too had given priority to the war in Europe, committing three of its four divisions to the Middle East.
The remaining 8th Division was made up of the best of the rest.
SIR DAVID GRIFFIN, 2/3rd MAC, AIF: It was made up of absolutely wonderful Australians, which are now almost an extinct race, I think.
Uh -- a lot of country chaps that are absolutely marvellous types of people.
Just marvellous.
CHRIS MASTERS: 15-years-old Bill Young, orphaned and on the road through a tough depression, was one of many looking for a job.
BILL YOUNG, 2/29th BATTALION, AIF: Oh, I remember that first night in, uh -- in the tent.
Oh, lovely straw palliasse, you know, and blankets, and you didn't even have to get up till six o'clock in the morning, you know.
The period spent in fighting by soldiers and sailors is very short, compared with the period spent in training and resting between battles.
CHRIS MASTERS: In desperate times and short of experience leaders, General Gordon Bennett was prematurely promoted to their command.
Fractious and unforgiving, the World War I hero was in uniform to make war, not friends.
MAJOR-GEN. CLIFFORD KINVIG RET.: He was a very ambitious man.
A very determined man.
Very protective of the sovereignty and independence of the Australian Imperial Force.
And I think he had military ideas that were rather outdated.
NEWSREEL: Australians are in the Far East, to us, the Near North.
With war clouds hovering over the Pacific, Britain's forces in the Singapore area have been strengthened by the arrival of a large body of Australian troops.
CHRIS MASTERS: When the ships sailed north, the 8th Division was top-heavy with field hospitals and transport units, and short one of its three fighting brigades.
They weren't to know it, but the 8th Division would, for all of World War II, carry Australia's heaviest burden of suffering and dying.
BILL YOUNG: I had never been anywhere and to go over to this exotic east, and it was exotic, they were all foreigners over there.
They even spoke foreign, you know?
(Laughs) We were the only true people, English people, who were there, really, or English-speaking people.
CHRIS MASTERS: Singapore and Malaya were important economic outposts of the British Empire.
But Britain had made little effort to know its colony -- the whites living separate lives.
NEWSREEL: The citizens of Singapore erected the club as a tribute to the men from the south who stand to arms in the tropics.
CHRIS MASTERS: Behind the propaganda was resentment of the aggressively arrogant Australians.
BILL YOUNG: We were on five shillings a day, that was 50 cents.
It doesn't seem much now but it was a fortune to me, especially to me.
You could buy all the comics and tobacco and all that you wanted.
It was terrific.
And -- when we got there with these five shillings, they put it up to six shillings -- 60 cents.
And the Englishmen got a shilling.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: There are also small and probably not very important things, which, at the time, were very irritating.
The Australian meat ration was vastly bigger than that of the Indian and British armies, for instance, and that really seems to have gotten up the nose of the staff officers in Malaya Command.
CHRIS MASTERS: Most discordant of all was the relationship right at the top.
General Officer, Commanding, Malaya, the gentlemanly Arthur Percival, was not a good fit with the abrasive Gordon Bennett.
JOHN WYETT, 8th DIVISION HQ, AIF: He was extremely rude to Percival and co., which, uh, didn't endear him to them and didn't smooth relations between them at all.
Unnecessarily rude, you know?
We used to feel ashamed of him.
CHRIS MASTERS: Before the fighting began, the Australians took up positions in the southern Malay provinces of Malacca and Johore where they were some of the few Allied units to familiarise themselves with a supposedly impenetrable jungle.
DICK LEE ROYAL ARTILLERY, 11th INDIAN DIVISION: There was other regiments in Singapore like the Gordon's, the Manchester's, East Surrey's, but they were all garrison troops.
They were just doing their la-di-dah in Singapore.
NEWSREEL: They are not in actual action but ranging their 25-pounder.
Perhaps here the enemy will be held.
Perhaps destiny holds for another Australian army the opportunity of greatness.
CHRIS MASTERS: Even after the fighting began, complacency and self-delusion remained the order of the day throughout an uncoordinated Malaya command.
NEWSREEL: There must be no more Pinangs.
"It is a shameful name in this war," declares the 'London Independent Press'.
DUNCAN FERGUSSON: We never seen a plane of ours.
At the very, very start we had some Brewster Buffalos.
You could have passed them on a bicycle -- very, very slow -- and they just went up.
They were just up -- ... shot down.
BILL YOUNG: Our intelligence people were still telling us that the Japanese couldn't see, they couldn't shoot they were short-sighted, their gear was no good -- it was made in Japan -- and we'd all laugh, you know?
CHRIS MASTERS: The allies found the Japanese easily penetrated the impenetrable jungle.
The Japanese brought tanks the British said could not operate in the boggy tropics.
DICK LEE ROYAL ARTILLERY, 11th INDIAN DIVISION: Oh, can't use tanks up there.
DUNCAN FERGUSSON: "What the hell is this?"
That's true.
"Couldn't use tanks."
Everything they said couldn't be done, the Japanese did.
NEWSREEL: Tired Indians, after weeks of fighting, moved back through the advancing Australians.
CHRIS MASTERS: The brunt of the early ground fighting was borne by Indian troops, supported by British officers.
The Japanese used speed to unsettle their enemy.
They did not stop and wait for supply trucks, stealing bicycles and food to keep up their forward momentum.
Small boats the British failed to destroy were also appropriated.
Ownership of the air and the surrounding sea lanes meant the Japanese could move behind the Allies at will.
The war was more than a month gone when the Japanese approached the Australian positions.
The Johore battleground would be a tangle of jungle, roads and rubber plantations.
BILL YOUNG: We could do anything providing we didn't hurt the trees -- they were private property.
They belonged to the firms -- Dunlop and all these peop -- ... Goodyear and all these people.
So we'd go charging around there and we could hurt people -- hurt ourselves but not those rubber trees.
Hands off the rubber trees!
CHRIS MASTERS: General Percival's Malaya Command, under attack from General Bennett for a withdrawal mentality, handed control of the ground forces in Johore to the Australian.
PETER ELPHICK, AUTHOR, 'SINGAPORE: THE PREGNABLE FORTRESS': He was a very bombastic individual and he was going around telling everybody that, "I can't wait to get at them.
"Let them come at us and we'll have them."
And some of his soldiers caught this and, you know, their famous phrase is, "I can fit two of them on one bayonet."
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: He did not work harmoniously -- not with his own fellow Australians, not with the British, not with anybody, and I don't think the problem was so much British-Australian relations with Bennett being the leader of a dominion contingent and having constitutional duties.
I think the problem was Bennett just being an idiot.
CHRIS MASTERS: Bennett chose to ambush the Japanese here, near Gemas.
There is not much left of the old Gemencheh bridge where the New South Wales 2/30th Battalion, backed up by Queenslanders, planned to stop the Japanese.
RAY BROWN, 2/30th BTN, AIF: Now, our task was to take out any trucks that come through.
So imagine the surprise we got when -- ... my mate gave me a nudge.
"Brownie," he was going, "Look, there."
And there's all these Japanese pedalling along on pushbikes.
CHRIS MASTERS: Hundreds were let past before the bridge was blown and the killing begun.
RAY BROWN: It was a hell of a noise because everyone had satchels of grenades and they were just dropping them over into the gutters and into the roadway.
And I fired till I couldn't find anymore.
Nothing to fire at.
Some of these bikes were blown through people, and heads off, and, oh -- horrific.
CHRIS MASTERS: Believing the propaganda that one Australian was as good as 10 Japanese, Ray Brown went forward with his bayonet.
RAY BROWN: Anyhow, I got one in the back, the other three jumped out and attacked me.
I got another one in the -- went for his throat. Got him in the -- in the rib cage here.
And while I'm trying to kick him off, the other two jumped on me, knocked me into the gutter.
And one bloke's trying to throttle me.
And, um, "This is not very good, Brown," so I felt around and while he's trying to choke me, I'm half blacked out, but I felt, "Oh, there's his bayonet."
And I pulled that out and cut him through the jugular, and he fell on top of me, so I couldn't move.
And so the other Jap there's going -- (Makes whooshing noise) ... stabbing.
And I got 22 stab wounds.
CHRIS MASTERS: The ambush here at Gemas killed many Japanese, but was not the intended success.
JOHN WYETT: The rest of the battalion was quite a long way back, and it was a Jap tactic, as soon as he met this opposition, fanned out either side.
And streams didn't worry them.
They got across them by hook or by crook.
CHRIS MASTERS: More Japanese were soon across the bridge and in front of the Australians who staged a fighting withdrawal through the rubber plantations.
Ray Brown, wounded 22 times but still breathing, was rescued by retreating comrades.
RAY BROWN: Lieutenant Geekie said, "Put some bandaids on him."
Not bandaids.
What did they used to call them?
Wound dressings.
Field dressings.
He said, "Jesus, Geekie, where will I start?"
CHRIS MASTERS: The Japanese later said the Australians fought with a bravery not previously encountered.
DOUGLAS BLANSHARD, 2/30th BTN, AIF: You yell your head off and you go at them, the port side, and you run like hell at the enemy.
Er, and it was terrific to see.
And it was terrific to see the Japs go.
To shoot through.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: If the enemy was going to use dense bush, then that meant supporting artillery wasn't going to be all that useful.
How to counter that?
Get right in their face.
So you had a conjunction of two things here.
The Japanese needing to go fast and pushing hard.
The Australians needing to counteract the jungle, covering the Japanese, and wanting to bayonet them through the ribs as a means to do that.
CHRIS MASTERS: Throughout the entire campaign, the Allies took no more than 12 Japanese alive.
The Australians knew they were in a 'take no prisoner, leave no wounded' war.
RAY STEELE, 1/15th FD REGT. AIF: In action, they were just ruthless.
They'd kill everything that moved.
Well, when all's said and done, I suppose that's war, isn't it?
The more you leave, the more there is to come back at you.
JIM HOWARD, 2/19th BTN. AIF: They would, er, gammon dead, and have a grenade under their body where they --
..as far as they were concerned, they were dead if they were taken prisoners.
But they'd -- you'd roll one over, lift him over, and a grenade could explode in your face.
CHRIS MASTERS: To the west of Gemas, the Japanese began a pincer attack designed to cut off and kill the last line of defence.
Here on the Muar front, the fighting would be even more grim.
Australian artillery ranged against the elite Japanese guards fired at point blank range.
RAY STEELE: We made a hell of a mess of them and landed a lot of rounds there.
We had to eventually pull out because there were too many of them.
CHRIS MASTERS: Supporting the artillery were members of the Victorian 2/29th Battalion, seen here before the fighting.
The 2/29th would emerge from the Muar front a shadow of its former self.
BILL YOUNG: It soon became apparent that the Japanese were trained to -- their snipers were -- to pick out anyone who looked like a commander.
So most of our officers copped it right on the first go.
CHRIS MASTERS: An Indian brigade, patched together with poorly trained soldiers, was also in support.
RAY STEELE: As soon as the heat turned on, they didn't know what to do.
They finished up, a lot of them, running off -- throwing their rifles away, taking their boots off, and running like hell.
CHRIS MASTERS: A ferocious battle was soon under way in defence of this important road junction at Bakri.
In some of the most remarkable footage to emerge from the war, you see how the Victorian Anti Tank regiment literally stuck to its guns wiping out a Japanese tank convoy.
NEWSREEL: All in, 11 tanks.
They are the type who will keep this country white.
JIM HOWARD: They must have hit one and then hit one at the back, and they couldn't turn around.
And between hand grenades from the troops on the top of the bank and the two-pounders, they skittled them.
CHRIS MASTERS: Jim Howard was with the NSW 2/19th Battalion, which soon found itself in a perilous position.
The Japanese pattern of using the sea to outflank the Allies was repeated.
ROLY DEAN, 2/19th BTN AIF: C Company was given the job then of, er -- clearing the machine guns.
And we did.
We lost a few men in the process, of course, but, er --
CHRIS MASTERS: How did you do it?
ROLY DEAN: With bayonets.
CHRIS MASTERS: You charged the bullets?
ROLY DEAN: We had to.
Had a couple of -- a few near misses, but that was all part of the game.
And one -- the sergeant major of C Company, he had been a wheat tosser -- tossing the big sieves of wheat.
He was built like a --
He got one bloke on the end of his bayonet and threw him over his shoulder.
CHRIS MASTERS: They battled for four days and nights along this road.
The Australians were trying to make it back to their lines at Parit Sulong, ahead of their headquarters at Yong Peng.
When they finally reached the bridge, here at Parit Sulong, they found the Japanese again in control, and anticipated relief by British forces unrealised.
JIM HOWARD: We were very critical of them.
We don't feel that they tried -- (Laughs) ... to put any of the effort in that we put in to get the 15 k's to Parit Sulong Bridge.
CHRIS MASTERS: In February this year, some of the survivors made it back.
MAN: In this place of so many memories, of mateship and suffering, of atrocities and cruelty --
CHRIS MASTERS: They remembered their comrades, the wounded they were forced to leave behind.
JIM HOWARD: I left him a couple of white towels, and I said to him, "Ray, I feel a -- a certain person, leaving you like this".
I knew his wife, I knew his kids.
We'd soldiered together in the NSW Scottish Regiment.
And he said, "Jim, you do what you're ordered.
"Bloody get out now, and pick up these fellas."
He said, "You've been told to do a job.
Do it -- off!"
CHRIS MASTERS: Just behind the tappers quarters, next to the bridge, an estimated 150 Australian and Indian soldiers -- the wounded they left behind -- were machine-gunned then burned, some of them while still alive.
MAN: They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old.
Age will not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
CROWD: We will remember them.
MAN: Lest we forget.
CROWD: Lest we forget.
CHRIS MASTERS: The massacre is not forgotten, nor the accompanying break out from Parit Sulong.
Through the swamps, the mire and the Japanese, small parties of men, many of them wounded, all of them left to their own initiative, struggled to rejoin the fight.
JIM HOWARD: There was 33 in the party, and we were able to walk after a fashion.
I remember one bloke had his heel shot off, his right heel.
He walked on the ball of his foot for 20-odd miles.
RAY STEELE: We reckoned we were far enough away to light a fire, so we got a bit of dry leaves and stuff, and, ah, the only thing we had to cook the rice in was a tin hat, which had been on someone's sweaty head for days.
Ah, ripped the inside out of it and boiled the rice in it.
I often think about the -- ... the rice cooked in the tin hat in the swamp.
You'll eat anything, won't you, if you're hungry?
CHRIS MASTERS: Colonel Charles Anderson won a Victoria Cross for his fighting withdrawal.
Thousands of Allied soldiers narrowly escaped the Japanese trap, and General Bennett escaped a near disaster.
PETER ELPHICK: A fighting retreat is part of every army manual, ah, but it wasn't in Bennett's book.
(Laughs) Or it might have been in his book, but it wasn't in his mind.
And so, he -- the Australians in Malaya and Singapore were not taught how to retreat.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: Let's have less of this, "We're not taught to retreat", and more of this, "What a damn good retreat was conducted indeed".
I mean, it's a near-miracle that anybody got away from that gauntlet behind Bakri and Parit Sulong.
And one of the best-deserved Victoria Crosses that must ever have been awarded went to Colonel Anderson of the 19th, in that he got anybody out alive at all from that mess.
CHRIS MASTERS: With the last natural defences on the Malayan Peninsula gone, the cablegrams between Canberra and London became less polite.
JOHN CURTIN (NEWSREEL): We are face-to-face with the struggle for sheer existence.
CHRIS MASTERS: In one communication, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin complained that a failure to reinforce Singapore amounted to an "inexcusable betrayal", despite Australia being party to the original fraud of the Singapore strategy.
PROF. PETER DENNIS: Now, it seems to me, if you take that line over almost 20 years, it's a bit rich to then come back and say, "People betrayed us," when you willingly went along with the assumptions that, frankly, were flawed from the very beginning.
CHRIS MASTERS: Canberra and London moved to confront a mounting disaster.
3,000 Australian reinforcements, most of them untrained, were rushed to Singapore, arriving in the last week of January.
BILL YOUNG: We had one fella came into our mob, called Bob -- Bag, I think his name was.
Came from -- came from Tasmania, as a matter of fact, and he had been in the army something like three or four weeks and he'd never fired a rifle.
He'd never fired a rifle.
ROYDON CORNFORD, 2/19th BTN. AIF: When I got to Singapore I was given a Bren gun.
I knew nothing about a Bren gun.
I'd never fired one in my life.
CHRIS MASTERS: 19-years-old Roy Cornford was one of over 600 reinforcements assigned to the NSW 19th Battalion, depleted to one-third its full strength after Muar.
ROYDON CORNFORD: So there was no morale at all, because we'd met the blokes who'd been trapped in Muar.
And when they came back and told us what was going on, and how they'd battled to get back, the Japs were just getting around them, and they had to battle through them again to get back, and they said we'll have no hope of holding them in Singapore.
CHRIS MASTERS: London also responded with too little, too late, sending some aircraft and diverting from the Middle East a division of soldiers kitted for a different war.
FRANK DAVIES, 18th BRITISH DIVISION: We were passing wrecked ships -- I don't know which they were, we never found out -- but it was a bit menacing as you came in.
You had the feeling things wouldn't be quite right at this place.
CHRIS MASTERS: On the last day of January 1942, the Allied rearguard withdrew to Singapore Island, blowing a hole in the causeway behind them, cutting off their own main water supply.
Upon arrival on the island, weary Australians were astonished to discover defences along the northern shoreline had not been prepared.
They were not able to lay mines or dig trenches in what amounted to a tidal swamp.
TOM MORRIS, 22nd BGD HQ. AIF: The story goes that the governor had put the kybosh on putting up barbed-wire entanglements and defences, because it would have been bad for the civilian population's moral.
DICK LEE: Bad for moral.
(Huffs) It was bad for our moral when it bleeding well started and we never had the stuff to go with the men.
CHRIS MASTERS: In February this year, a party of international historians gathered on the same shoreline.
MAN: Die and die well and take a long time doing so.
Stand and fight in place and buy time for Malaya Command to realise that this is the main attack.
CHRIS MASTERS: After 60 years, the questions of what went wrong and who was to blame continue to raise hackles, particularly between the British and Australians.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: For Australia, I'm always struck by the emotional difference in the reaction of the two nations to this.
For those British individuals who were personally involved in the fall of Singapore, of course, this is always a defining moment in their lives.
But for the rest of the nation, it's always seemed to me as a Canadian, watching my two imperial cousins, that it matters far more to you Australians as a nation.
To you, it was the Near North.
To the British, it was the Far East.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Australians were given this section of the north-western shoreline to defend where the Straits of Johore narrow to 500m.
Fresher British forces were concentrated more on the other side of the causeway.
MAJOR-GENERAL CLIFFORD KINVIG: I think Percival must accept some of the blame here.
I mean, the story we hear is that Wavell said the Japanese attack would be on the north-west of the island.
Percival thought it would be on the north-east and ultimately disposed the larger part of his forces there.
CHRIS MASTERS: The pride of Fortress Singapore, the big naval guns, were turned on amassing Japanese with little effect.
And from the tower of the Sultan of Johore's palace on the other side, Japanese spotters were able to target return fire directly upon the Australians.
PAUL GEMMELL, 2/18th BTN. AIF: It came in curtains.
The curtain of fire and then it lift about 20 yards and another curtain of fire come down.
And this went on, oh, for 18 hours.
BILL YOUNG: And then there was this horrible silence.
And then, after five minutes or so, the machine guns, the rat-a-tat-tat of the machine guns.
CHRIS MASTERS: On the night of February 8, 1942, 13,000 Japanese soldiers crossed in the first wave.
Spread out along 15km, opposing them were around 3,000 Australian combat troops, many of them the inexperienced reinforcements.
ROYDON CORNFORD: Well, the Japs run into us and they started babbling in Japanese.
And then they realised that we weren't Japanese.
And then they started to run and all the men threw theirselves on the ground and fired at them.
That's when I fired one magazine of the Bren gun.
MASEO MAEDA (TRANSLATION): We just stormed the enemy and went on a rampage.
LINDSAY ALLEN 2/20th BTN. AIF : A little mate of mine, he's Spanish.
He's dead now.
And he -- he was running with his team of blokes, like when they said we got to withdraw, pull out.
And he turned to the bloke at his side and he said, "Jesus, there's --
there's millions of the bastards," you know.
And this bloke went, "Ya ya ya ya."
He was a Jap!
He was running with a team of Japs.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Japanese strategy was to rush through the Australian lines and capture the Tengah airfield to the rear.
The Japanese lost heavily with 1,000 casualties alone in Maseo Maeda's division.
MASEO MAEDA (TRANSLATOR): We cut through the enemy lines at night.
We were riddled with bullets like a honeycomb.
That's where many of my friends died.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Australians also lost heavily.
One casualty who fell to exhaustion rather than bullets was the 22nd Brigade commander Harold Taylor.
JOHN WYVETT: Taylor was wandering around rather like a man in a sleep walk.
He was utterly, utterly, you know, shell-shocked and not able to do very much.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: I'm not at all surprised.
It would have taken Superman to cope with the burden that was put on Taylor's shoulders.
Yes, he buckled.
Yes, he made a mistake in a premature retreat to Percival's final perimeter.
And that was unfortunate.
But given the difficulties that he worked with, Taylor simply cracked under overwhelming pressure.
CHRIS MASTERS: Criticism of Australian leadership is not confined to Bennett and Taylor.
Brigadier Duncan Maxwell was also condemned for withdrawing his troops from their vital defence of the causeway.
MAJOR-GENERAL CLIFFORD KINVIG: I think Maxwell certainly didn't believe -- we know that from his interview with Percival -- that the island should be fought for.
He thought it was all lost and that we might as well give up at that point.
CHRIS MASTERS: While the Australians bore the brunt of the assault, they were but a small component of the Allied forces on the island.
Opposing approximately 30,000 attacking Japanese were around 85,000 Allied troops, a very large proportion of them support troops such as postal units, the mobile bath, field bakeries and the like.
Still others were never brought to bear on the conflict.
FRANK DAVIES: Our lot were just wandering about there.
They kind of said we're going to have fight, give you all this kind of talk -- "We're going to fight to the death.
There's no Dunkirk.
"There's nobody going to rescue you "so take as many as you can with you before you go."
All heroic stuff, you know.
And we're in this big cellar and we'd barricaded it, sandbagged it, made it a pillbox site.
But we'd all weapons there but you didn't know who to shoot at.
CHRIS MASTERS: Meanwhile, Australians cut off from their units were trying to make it back to safety.
ROYDON CORNFORD: We had no officers, no nothing.
It was probably 15 or 20 of us, but there was -- I wouldn't say there was even anybody above a private.
LINDSAY ALLEN: The mob we were following went straight out and they put a bayonet charge on.
I lost my rifle and bayonet when I was swimming the river.
Someone opened up with a machine gun and I went down the bottom and I lost my tin hat with all my wallet and my money and everything and my rifle.
But it wasn't hard to pick up another rifle.
There was dead blokes laying everywhere.
And but there was no bayonet with it.
So I went in the bayonet charge without a bayonet.
CHRIS MASTERS: For the Australians, this was no Gallipoli, for the British, no Dunkirk.
With no hope of relief, the fight went on, but by the third day, it was no longer a cohesive defence.
LEE KUAN YEW, SENIOR MINISTER, SINGAPORE: There was a whole line of military trucks with Australian soldiers, young men, totally bewildered.
And, uh -- one of them offered me his rifle.
He says, "Take it."
Uh --
My heart was in my -- pit of my stomach.
PETER ELPHICK: Bennett himself said in his final perimeter, he only had 2,000 men.
Now, there were 18,500 Australians on the island.
So where did the others go to?
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: The Japanese lost almost half their battle dead for the entire Malayan campaign on Singapore Island itself.
And I would be very surprised if nothing less than 80 per cent-plus of those were killed by Australians.
I can see no evidence that they didn't put up a fight at all for the island.
Later gave up on the fight?
Yes, perhaps.
Didn't put up a fight at all?
CHRIS MASTERS: With the Japanese advance came a creeping spread of chaos and tragedy.
The nurses were ordered to leave the hospitals ahead of Japanese massacres, particularly of the local Chinese population.
The last evacuation ship would leave on Friday 13 February.
In the preceding days, there was mayhem along the waterfront.
DUNCAN FERGUSSON: There was thousands and thousands of Australians roaming about and looting.
We could hardly get in at all.
And when we got down to the docks to the ship, God!
They were up the gangway, and could hardly get them down off the gangway.
FRANK DAVIES: When we got to the dock gates, there were a crowd of Aussies round there, arguing with the redcaps.
"Let us in!"
You know.
But there was also English blokes and others, all in a similar boat, all looking for a way out.
You couldn't blame them.
The Aussies were more open about it, they were shouting like typical Australians, you know.
Our lads were standing there, and thought, "Well, if they go in, we'll go with them."
CHRIS MASTERS: While many defenders had given up the fight, many others continued to resist.
DOUGLAS BLANSHARD: Here we were, in a perimeter that hadn't been broken.
The Japs had tried to come through the perimeter two or three times, we'd repulsed them.
We repulsed them.
And the next minute, we're told to throw our arms down, to stack them in a pile, and just don't do anything.
CHRIS MASTERS: One week after the Japanese began their invasion of the island, one month ahead of schedule, Singapore fell, and so too an unaccustomed silence.
TOM MORRIS: The one question, I think, that probably stood out, even on that first night of surrender -- "What will our people back home think?"
DUNCAN FERGUSSON: A lot of them sat down and were crying.
Aye, and --
I was crying myself, actually.
LEE KUAN YEW: They marched 80,000 troops from the city to Changi, and they were -- I wouldn't say marching, just moving, for nearly 36 hours.
I never felt so depressed in my whole life.
I mean, it's just like as if the Dark Ages had descended.
CHRIS MASTERS: The battle was over, but the war of words went on.
Supreme Commander of the region Archibald Wavell produced a secret report in 1942 which, for the sake of imperial relations, was kept secret for 50 years.
Within it, there is scathing commentary of the Australians.
General Bennett's 1944 account of 'Why Singapore Fell' in turn laid significant blame on the British.
More recently, British author Peter Elphick has joined the half-century-old argument, finding that desertion, particularly among Australians, played a big part in the ultimate collapse.
PETER ELPHICK: The major factor was the low morale that they talked about at these last generals' meetings.
But low morale meaning -- i.e., desertion -- because it was on a major scale then.
PROF. PETER DENNIS: On the outcome, I think they had no impact at all.
I think there were desertions -- on what scale, I couldn't be definitive, but I think not large.
But not surprising.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: The death of an army trapped like a cornered rat is never tidy.
Come on, let's face it, this army was disintegrating, it was messy.
Were there Australians in there?
Yes, of course.
But were they predominant?
Well, it seems to me that they were remembered, yeah.
Does that mean that they were predominant?
That's tougher.
CHRIS MASTERS: Over 1,000 of the 18,000 Australians in Singapore did get out in the last days.
Among them, most of the mobile laundry unit, some of the mobile bath, and a WWI Victoria Cross winner.
A smaller number made it back to Australia.
ANNOUNCER: Many thought there was much else the renowned Australian leader might have said.
But in war there are many things that are better left unsaid.
CHRIS MASTERS: Prominent among these was General Bennett, who escaped directly following the surrender.
GENERAL BENNETT: I saw a report signed by two British officers who had just come from behind the Japanese lines, and who had seen a number of our Australian prisoners at that time.
They stated very definitely that the Australian prisoners who were being held by the Japanese were being very well treated indeed.
PROF. BRIAN FARRELL: He gave his men an express order on the evening of February 15 that nobody was to leave their position.
And then he rounded up a few of his cronies, and did so himself.
Frankly, as a former soldier, I find that repugnant.
I think he left his men to face the music.
PROF. PETER DENNIS: His claim was that he had information about how the Japanese fought, which turned out to be absolute rubbish.
There was nothing particularly new in what he had to say, and that was the end of Gordon Bennett.
CHRIS MASTERS: An inquiry into General Bennett's escape was generally forgiving, but did find his departure "not justified".
Other documents reveal no evidence of Australians court-martialled for desertion from Singapore.
And in their reading, it's clear that courage and initiative had not deserted many who did get out.
JIM HOWARD: I was 22, 23.
(Laughs) Perhaps not gifted with many brains.
But we, um, we were pretty fiery, I suppose, in spirit and if we couldn't go back to the battalion --
The battalion was like your home.
And, er, well, we wanted --
We did not want the bloody Japanese to take us.
CHRIS MASTERS: In his book, 'Singapore: The Pregnable Fortress', Peter Elphick, relying on many secondary sources, has repeated a well-worn story of alleged forced entry and mass desertion by Australians who boarded this ship, the 'Empire Star'.
They were led, he wrote, by a Captain Blackwood.
There's no record of Captain Blackwood in the 8th Division.
What do you make of that?
PETER ELPHICK: Er, well, maybe they got the name wrong.
One to get away on the 'Empire Star' was Roy Cornford -- the other Australian named by Elphick as a deserter.
ROYDON CORNFORD: Well, we sort of split up.
Some said, "We're going this way," and, "We're going that way."
And I went with four blokes and we pushed through the jungle and we spent another night --
CHRIS MASTERS: You'll remember Roy Cornford as one of the untrained reinforcements who, before the surrender, was left cut off and leaderless.
ROYDON CORNFORD: And we got in this little boat and eventually we got out in the water and were paddling and thinking, "We're going somewhere to the -- ... heading towards Singapore docks," where you could see smoke and everything.
But then in the distance, we saw -- we could see two ships.
But we made for the closest one and we could see hundreds or, we reckoned, hundreds of soldiers on it.
And they lowered a -- a scrambly net and pulled us on board.
CHRIS MASTERS: Cornford was put to work defending the ship against attack by Japanese aircraft.
Upon arrival in Java, he was briefly detained before volunteering to return to the line until captured by the Japanese.
He endured enslavement for the entire construction of the notorious Burma railway.
He was then marched aboard another ship, the 'Rakuyo Maru', bound for more forced labour camps in Japan.
On September 17, 1944, the ship was sunk by an American submarine and Roy Cornford was left to flounder in an oil-stained sea.
ROYDON CORNFORD: We tied two rafts together and there was 18 of us but when we got rescued four days later, there was only seven of us of that 18 alive.
CHRIS MASTERS: Remarkably, an American cameraman was there in the middle of the ocean to film the rescue.
You'd be pretty fond of the Americans, wouldn't you?
ROYDON CORNFORD: Oh, well, I am, yes.
I'll tell you -- I am very fond of the Americans.
CHRIS MASTERS: You've also named a 'Roy Cornford' -- you say deserted by his own admission.
This he denies.
He gives a good account of what happened to him.
Indeed, he joined the front line again when he was returned to Java.
Were you wrong to call him a deserter?
PETER ELPHICK: No, if I am wrong then so was the author of the book who actually interviewed Roy Cornford, and HE said that Roy Cornford, on his own admission, was a deserter.
And I took that verbatim from the book.
CHRIS MASTERS: Did you talk to Roy Cornford?
PETER ELPHICK: No, I didn't.
CHRIS MASTERS: But you should have, shouldn't you?
If you're going to call him a deserter.
PETER ELPHICK: Well -- it's a moot point.
Would it have been worth my while to journey out to Australia to interview one man?
I don't think so.
CHRIS MASTERS: Roy Cornford returned from the war to lead an exemplary life.
The prisoner of war experience improved his appreciation of life.
In his retirement, he sells plants to raise money for charity.
ROY CORNFORD: So you'd better help me pull the weeds out of them.
MRS CORNFORD: Well, when are you going to take them into Nowra?
ROY CORNFORD: Ah, as soon as we get time.
MRS CORNFORD: Right.
CHRIS MASTERS: He blames no-one for the horrors he endured
Like many of the men, he says the British and Australians got to know one another better following captivity.
FRANK DAVIES: Well, at first I thought they were a bit --
..their attitude was like -- sounded aggressive and abrupt, you know.
"What do you want, you bloody Pommy bastard," you know.
And I thought, you know, I'm here to be friendly and he's talking to me like this.
Anyway, once you got to know 'em, and you give it to 'em back, it was just their way.
And, ah, if it suits you, that was it, you were a good mate.
A good 'cobber', as they used to call you.
WILLIAM HALTHAM, 18th BRITISH DIVISION.
Their camps were -- disciplined.
And, ah, as I say, they all worked together.
This is my opinion.
And I loved them.
I loved them.
CHRIS MASTERS: There is no doubt some Australian soldiers did desert the fighting in Singapore 60 years ago.
There is no doubt there was a breakdown of order in those last chaotic days when British and Australian leadership failed.
Not surprising, considering this was a battle lost by our leaders before the soldiers arrived.
So to blame the men -- to blame the victims -- is cruel and absurd.
Australian casualties, through all of the fighting, were by far the highest.
The nature of the fighting was such that in the space of a month they experienced more intense combat than many soldiers did through an entire war.
And for these men, there was no time to learn 'no second chance'.
Their story of three-and-a-half-years captivity went on to eclipse the story of their war.
60 years on, in their final years, it is worth remembering they were fighters before they were prisoners.


text:
- Superdan's What Made OD&D Great
- From the Dungeon to the Dictionary
- The Devil Wore Polyester
- Fear And Loathing in the Arduinian Wilderness - brought to you by Archive.org
- Real Dungeons & Dragons - "Our campaign consisted of 10 men and 10 women."
Monday, July 11, 2011
return of the links numbering five
I haven't done one of these in quite a while. Here's five links of old stuff (in goldfish-memory internet time) about old stuff (in history of the hobby time).
Posted by Jeff Rients at 3:52 AM
Labels: five links, old school, RPG
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