WW2 HK Timeline

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  • Winston Churchill Realises HK is in danger

    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send
    reinforcements.
  • Canadian Troops Arrive

    Canadian Troops Arrive

    2 Canadian battalions arrive to reinforce Hong Kong, they increase them number of battalions to 6. This was effectively good money thrown after bad.
  • Japanese Attack Kai-Tak Airfield

    Japanese Attack Kai-Tak Airfield

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield destorying most of the Britsh aircraft and also civillian aircraft. Japanese enginers quickly patch up the broken bridges a roads damaged by the bombing. The airfield is left badly damaged. They start their attack on HK

  • Shing Mun Redoubt capture

    The strongest line of the "gindrinkers" line is captured, there was no counter-attack attempted. The britsh forces were forced to withdraw back to Hong Kong Island

  • Japanese Demand Surrender

    Ignored
  • Heavy Bombing On HK Island

    Heavy Bombing On HK Island

    Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses.
  • Japanese's Main Attack On HK Island

    Japanese's Main Attack On HK Island

  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

  • Currency change to Japanese Millitary Yen

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

  • HK-Kowloon brigade established

    the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong
    People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
    They fight until the end of the occupation

  • Streets Renamed To Japanese (Central)

    streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese