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Churchill sends reinforcements to Hong Kong after realising Hong Kong in danger.
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Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
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36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield. The Japanese started invasion in Hong Kong through air.
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Evacuation of New Territories
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Evacuation of Kowloon
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Japanese demand surrender (the surrender was ignored)
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The Japanese began heavy bombing Hong Kong, and demanded surrender for the second time.
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Japanese landed in Hong Kong Island and attacked Hong Kong Island
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Grenadiers retake Mt. Butler with heavy casualties
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THe HK Commanding Officer, Lawson, was killed, as fortress Hong Kong was captured.
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Royal rifles retreat to Stanley
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Hong Kong surrenders to Japan
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Police recruited in Hong Kong to be Kempeitai
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Repatriation of Chinese back to mainland
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10000 women were raped
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Hong Kong dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen, with a fixed exchange rate of 2 Hong Kong Dollars to 1 Japanese Military Yen
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Internment of most 'white' allied civilians
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Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade was established, by an anti-Japanese force, Guerilla force
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Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese
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Food rationing begins
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The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride
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Public utilities are handed over to Japanese control
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US bomber, Enola Gay, drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing over 70000 people instantly
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Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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The Japanese surrenders :)
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Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on the "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day"
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Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor
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Sir Cecil Harcourts accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young continues as governor.
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Japanese general, Takashi Sakai, was executed as a war criminal
