Battle of Hong Kong
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The Battle of Hong Kong, also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl H
Japanese troops take Tsim Sha Tsui
Indian gunners manning a 9.2-inch naval artillery gun at Mount Davis Battery on Hong Kong Island
Three weeks before the battle, a Canadian military contingent arrived to reinforce the garrison
Japanese artillery firing at Hong Kong
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. His surre
Battle of Hong Kong
…territory Hong Kong Island untenable, the colony surrendered. The fall of the city is regarded as Black Christmas as it marked the beginning of a brutal occupation by Japan that would last until its liberation in the summer of 1945. Britain's defeat in Hong Kong alongside the Fall of Singapore in 1942 would irreparably…
Rensuke Isogai
Imperial Japanese soldiers arrested European bankers and detained them in a hotel.
Population decrease due to repatriation
A hand-out of a Japanese language learning radio programme