Operation Tiderace

Operation Tiderace
	Part of World War II
	; General Seishirō Itagaki signing the terms for the reoccupation of Singapore on board the heavy cruiser HMS Sussex. 4 September 1945
Date	4–12 September 1945
Location	Singapore
Result	Unopposed Allied victory Liberation of Singapore; Establishment of British Military Administration; Dissolution of Straits Settlements in 1946;
Belligerents
Japan 7th Area Army; 10th Area Fleet;	United Kingdom; India; Australia; France (Naval only)
Commanders and leaders
Seishirō Itagaki (POW); Shigeru Fukudome (POW)	Lord Louis Mountbatten; Robert Mansergh
Strength
77,000 infantry; 2 heavy cruisers; 1 destroyer; 2 submarines	60,000 infantry; 7 escort carriers; 2 battleships; 1 heavy cruiser; 2 light cruisers; 15 destroyers; 3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary; 3 hospital ships; 14 merchant vessels; 43 landing ship, infantry
Casualties and losses
300 suicides; 76,700 captured	1 battleship damaged

Operation Tiderace was the codename of the British plan to retake Singapore following the Japanese surrender in 1945.^[4] The liberation force was led by Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command. Tiderace was initiated in coordination with Operation Zipper, which involved the liberation of Malaya.

^ Sarnet & Le Vaillant, p. 330
^ "H.M.S. Rotherham (H09)". Retrieved 26 November 2014.
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^ Park, p. 2156, para 360.