World War 2 Events In Hong Kong

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    1941 September

    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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    World War 2 In Hong Kong

  • 16 Nov 1941

    16 Nov 1941
    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • 8 Dec 1941

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

  • 11 Dec 1941

    Evacuation of New Territories

  • 12 Dec 1941

    Evacuation of Kowloon

  • 13 Dec 1941

    Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

  • 17 Dec 1941

    Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastaldefenses

  • 18 Dec 1941

    18 Dec 1941
    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

  • 19 Dec 1941

    Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • 20 Dec 1941

    HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • 23 Dec 1941

    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

  • 25 Dec 1941

    5:00am - Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
    6:00am - Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
    3:15pm - Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
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    Janurary 1942

    10,000 women are raped over the month and 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.
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    Janruary 1942

    police recruited to be Kempeitai
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    Janruary 1942

    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • 21 Jan 1942

    Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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    Feburary 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)
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    April 1942

    Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.
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    April 1942

    food rationing begins
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    July 1942

    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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    June 1942

    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • 6 Aug 1945

    6 Aug 1945
    US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.

  • 9 Aug 1945

    9 Aug 1945
    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

  • 15 Aug 1945

    15 Aug 1945
    Japan finally surrenders.

  • 30 Aug 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.

  • 1 Sep 1945

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

  • 6 Sep 1945

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

  • 30 Sep 1946

    30 Sep 1946
    General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on theafternoon of.