15-February... Total Defence Day of Singapore...


15-Feb, Singapore's Total Defence Day marks the Colonial Singapore surrendering to Japan in 1942 during World War II...  

Introduced in 1984, the day adopted the nationwide defence concepts with five key strategies viz., Military, Civil, Economic, Social and Psychological...

Singapore Postal Administration commemorated Total Defence with the release of five sets of postage stamps in the year 1984 with the face value of 10-Singapore cents...

The stamps depicts Social defence of "This is our Country" ; Psychological defence of "We are One"; Economic defence of "We work together"; Social defence of "We are prepared"; and Military defence of "We are ready"...

These stamps can be collected under the themes:

(a) Society...
(b) People...
(c) Industry / Military / Healthcare...

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