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Submitted by Barthayn on February 10, 2008
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battle of Hong Kong was a disaster waiting to happen to the Canadians from the
Japanese. The attack of Hong Kong was an intelligent plan from the Japanese attacks on the
Canadians. Hong Kong was over Canadian control when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in
the USA however news did not spread to the Canadians in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong was
attacked just a few hours later on December 8, 1948 (time when the attack in Hong Kong)
after Pearl Harbor. The year before the Japanese made the plan to invade and take over Hong
Kong. The plan was under the code name “Hana - Saku” which means in Japanese “flowers in
bloom, flowers in bloom”.
Before the attack from the Japanese the Canadians thought that Hong Kong will never
be attacked and they were not ready to be sent in or engaged in armed combat with any
nation’s army. The Canadians were classified as “C Force” which means in need of refresher
training or insufficiently trained and not recommended for operations. Only about 30% of the
Canadian Army or “C Force” for short fired a bullet in training called Boot Camp. The Canadians
later joined a small Commonwealth defend with less than a total of fourteen thousand (14 000)
people. They included civilian and nurses volunteers.
On December 8th 1941 (December 7th 1941 in Canada), the Japanese attacked Hong Kong.
They [Japanese] used their air force by bombing and destroying docks, military barracks, gun
emplacements, and the five old RAF [Royal Air Force] airplanes on the British airfield. Even
though the defenders of Hong Kong heard the wailing of air raid sirens all they could do was
try to survive the air raid for they had no Air Defense and after the Japanese air raid the
defenders of Hong Kong had no protection from the air and also from the sea because of the
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