Operasi Zipper

Operasi Zipper
	Bagian dari Perang Dunia Kedua
	; Laksamana Muda Jisaku Uozumi menandatangani dokumen kapitulasi di atas kapal HMS Nelson pada 2 September 1945.
Tanggal	28 Agustus – 2 September 1945
Lokasi	Penang, Malaya
Hasil	Kemenangan Sekutu tanpa perlawanan Pembebasan Malaya; Pendirian Administrasi Militer Inggris;
Pihak terlibat
Kekaisaran Britania: Tentara Keempat Belas; XXXIV Corps;	Kekaisaran Jepang: Tentara Wilayah ke-7;
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Harold Walker; Ouvry Roberts	Jisaku Uozumi (POW)
Kekuatan
42,651 infanteri; 2 escort carriers; 1 kapal tempur; 1 light cruiser; 3 destroyers; 3 troopships	26,000 infanteri
Korban
Tidak ada	26,000 ditangkap

Pada Perang Dunia II, Operasi Zipper adalah sebuah rencana Inggris untuk menaklukan Pelabuhan Swettenham atau Pelabuhan Dickson, Malaya sebagai langkah untuk menaklukan kembali Singapura. Namun, karena akhir perang di Pasifik, rencana tersebut tidak pernah sepenuhnya tereksekusi.

Referensi

^ Operation Zipper: The Invasion of Malaya, August 1945, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-11-28, diakses tanggal 2015-12-07
^ "After some delay, and a failure to attend an earlier meeting, the Japanese local commander, Rear Admiral Jisaku Uzumi, came aboard HMS Nelson on the evening of 2 September, wearing the DSC he had earned as Britain's ally in the 1914-18 war, and surrendered the garrison. He fainted and was rushed to hospital; the military policemen who carried him there took his sword as a souvenir." Bayly & Harper, page 49
^ Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker, RN
^ 46 Indian Beach Group, Morib
^ HMS NELSON - Nelson-class 16in gun Battleship
^ "The real Japanese surrender" (PDF). The Sunday Times. 2005-09-04. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2008-01-19. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-09.

Daftar pustaka

Bose, Romen, "The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the aftermath of the Second World War", Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2005
Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, "Forgotten Wars: Freedom And Revolution in Southeast Asia", Penguin Group, United Kingdom, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-02153-2, ISBN 0-674-02153-3

[Operation_Zipper:_The_Invasion_of_Malaya,_August_1945-1] Operation Zipper: The Invasion of Malaya, August 1945, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-11-28, diakses tanggal 2015-12-07

[2] "After some delay, and a failure to attend an earlier meeting, the Japanese local commander, Rear Admiral Jisaku Uzumi, came aboard HMS Nelson on the evening of 2 September, wearing the DSC he had earned as Britain's ally in the 1914-18 war, and surrendered the garrison. He fainted and was rushed to hospital; the military policemen who carried him there took his sword as a souvenir." Bayly & Harper, page 49

[3] Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker, RN

[4] 46 Indian Beach Group, Morib

[5] HMS NELSON - Nelson-class 16in gun Battleship

[The_real_Japanese_surrender-6] "The real Japanese surrender" (PDF). The Sunday Times. 2005-09-04. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2008-01-19. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-09.

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