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Fall of Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army, this date
Link to tweet
The day before and night of, the The British Military Hospital massacre was occurring.
https://faithinwartime.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/the-alexandra-hospital-massacre-14-15-february-1942/
snip & more at source...At 1.00 pm on 14 February, the first Japanese soldier approached the building. Captain J.E. Bartlett RAMC walked out to meet him, his hands in the air, and indicated the Red Cross brassard on his arm. The soldier ignored this and fired at him at point-blank range. Amazingly, Bartlett survived and ran back into the building. For the next hour, three groups of Japanese soldiers went from ward to ward, shooting, bayoneting and beating up medics and patients indiscriminately, killing about fifty people."