Operation Tiderace

Belligerents

Japan

• 7th Area Army
• 10th Area Fleet

United Kingdom
India
Australia
France (Naval only)Commanders and leadersSeishirō Itagaki(POW)
Shigeru Fukudome(POW)Lord Louis Mountbatten
Robert ManserghStrength 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, infantryCasualties 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. 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.