To Hell & Back - Operation Sook Ching
Poon was up early that morning. Together with his father-in-law Tong, he left his home at Harbour Lines Quarters at dawn walking to the designated inspection center at the end of Tanjong Pagar Road. When they reached the center at six in the morning, they found many familiar faces, mostly neighbors, already there, ahead of them. Apart from the nods of recognition, no one was in any mood to speak. The island, Singapore, was in the occupation of the Japanese forces for three weeks now and most of those who gathered there had seen how cruelly the Japanese soldiers […]
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