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Hong Kong War

By Rex33

  • The Japanese starts invading

    36 Japanese flighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river

  • Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender

    But surrender was ignored

  • Japanese starts bombing

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

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong island

  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley

  • Japanese attacks South Hong Kong island

    The royal rifles, capture Stanley fort, St.Stephens hospital, Mt Cameron captured and Malty calls Governor Young to surrender

  • Over the month 10000 women are raped

  • Hong Kong Dollars was replaced by Japanese Military Yen

    The exchange rate was fixed at two Hong Kong Dollars to one military yen

  • Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • Interment of most 'white' Allied civilians

  • The Hong Kong Kowloon brigade was established from the Guangdong people's anti Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo Liang

  • Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese

  • Food rationing begins

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

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • The US dropped an atomic bomb called the 'Enola Gay' on Hiroshima, killing over 70000 instantaneously

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagaski

  • Japan finally surrenders

  • Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on that day

    This day was declared as the "Liberation Day" and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967

  • Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong;s colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor

  • British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender and Mark Young resumes as Governor

  • General Takashi Sakai was tried as a war criminal and executed in the afternoon