| 词条 | Pasir Panjang Pillbox | ||||||||||||
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|name = Pasir Panjang Pillbox |native name = |partof = World War II-era Defence of Singapore |location = Singapore |image = Pasir Panjang Machine-Gun Pillbox 2, Nov 06.JPG |image_size = 200px |caption = Pasir Panjang Pillbox, here photographed in 2006. |type = |coordinates = {{coord|1.289|103.778167|type:landmark|display=inline}} |code = |built = pre-WWII |builder = British military |materials = Concrete (reinforced) and steel |height = |used = |demolished = |condition = Good |ownership = |open_to_public = Yes (externally only; access inside the pillbox is not allowed) |controlledby = British military (former) |garrison = occupied by British military forces in Singapore (former) |current_commander = None |past_commanders = Unknown |occupants = British military (former) |battles = Battle of Pasir Panjang |events = Second World War |image2 = |caption2 = }} Pasir Panjang Pillbox is a strengthened-concrete defensive structure from WWII, located in Pasir Panjang in the southwestern area of Singapore. Background And HistoryWay in advance of the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore between 1941 and 1942 during World War II, a number of concrete-built defensive pillboxes were built along Singapore's eastern and western coasts. These pillboxes had machine guns installed within that could fire in most, if not any, directions. They also housed troops fighting against an enemy force and offered the former adequate protection from return-fire or shelling by their opponents. Typically oriented towards the sea or the shoreline, they were positioned at strategic intervals so that their fields of gunfire (from emplaced machine guns and rifles) would be overlapped against enemy troops, thereby reinforcing each other and covering almost the entire coastline with defensive fire to effectively repel enemy attacks. This machine gun pillbox at Pasir Panjang is one of the few in Singapore that have survived from the end of WWII to the present day (many others having been demolished, destroyed in battle or simply abandoned and subsequently forgotten). It lies within the area defended by the 1st Malaya Brigade during the battle and may have possibly been used by the British-commanded Malay Regiment in their fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army's (IJA) 18th Division on Pasir Panjang Ridge (renamed as Kent Ridge since the 1950s) nearing the middle February 1942.[1] GalleryNotes{{Commons category|Pasir Panjang machine-gun pillbox}}1. ^National Heritage Board, Singapore's 100 Historic Places, p. 122, Archipelago Press, Singapore, 2007. 4 : Coastal fortifications|Forts in Singapore|Military of Singapore under British rule|World War II sites in Singapore |
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