Hong Kong On Fire

By BurningDesire

  • September 1941

    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.

  • November 16 1941

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.

  • Dec 20th

    HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • 8am December the 8th

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river.

  • Dec 11

    Evacuation of New Territories.

  • Dec 13

    Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored).

  • Dec 17

    Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses.

  • December 19th

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.

  • Dec 23th

    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely.

  • Dec 25 5:00am

    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort.

  • Dec 25th 6:00am

    Japanese attack St. Stephens hospital.

  • Dec 25th 3:15pm

    Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender.

  • January 1942

    Over the month 10,000 women are raped.

  • January 1942

    Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.

  • January 1942

    police recruited to be Kempeitai.

  • January 1942

    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland.

  • January 21, 1942

    Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians.

  • Febuary 1942

    the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁).

  • April 1942

    streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • April 1942

    food rationing begins.

  • July 1942

    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

  • June 1943

    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control.

  • August 6th, 1945

    The US dropped an atomic bomb called “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.

  • August 9th, 1945

    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

  • 15 August, 1945

    Japan finally surrenders.

  • 30th August, 1945

    Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on• The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.

  • 1st September 1945

    Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

  • 6 September 1945

    British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally acceptsthe Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.

  • 30th September 1946

    General Takashi Sakai is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.