Battle of Hong Kong
1941 · Event
Japan takes Hong Kong in eighteen days; the garrison's two Canadian battalions — Canada's first land battle of the war — are killed or marched into four years of brutal captivity.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, World War II, China, Japan
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