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(Click here for wartime map of Burma)
| 7th December 1941 | PEARL HARBOUR
At 0755 hours local time, 6 Japanese aircraft carriers and 423 planes attacked the main base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour. The toll was 5 American battleships sunk, 3 others damaged, 3 cruisers and 3 destroyers sunk, and 188 American planes were lost from the airfields of Pearl Harbour. The Japanese lost just 29 planes.
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| 8th December 1941 | WORLD AFFAIRS - DECLARATION
OF WAR ON JAPAN
The United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, The Free French, Yugoslavia, several South American countries and China ALL DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN. |
| In Hong Kong, the Japanese
38th Division begins an attack at 0800 hours. General Maltby
commanding the garrison, has only six battalions and 28 guns with which
to make a defence. THE RETREAT BEGINS
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| 10th December 1941 | H.M.S. Repluse and H.M.S. Prince Of Wales sunk during the defence of Singapore. Click Here to visit the Memorial Site |
| 13th December 1941 | The British have to evacuate
their airfield at Victoria Point in the extreme south of Burma on the
Kra Isthms. The Japanese follow and move in.
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| 23rd December 1941 | The Japanese stage their
first air attacks on Rangoon. The Allied air forces in Burma have
only two fighter squadrons at this stage; one from the R.A.F. and one
from Chennault's American Volunteer Group.
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25th December
1941
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General Hutton is appointed
to command the British Forces in Burma. The British Forces in Hong
Kong capitulate in the evening.
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MAPS OF BURMA |
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Examples of WWII Japanese propaganda Click Here |
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Read about the A
Nurses Story
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