Monday, December 18, 2006

Blood Is Thicker Than Water: War in the Pacific 1941 Timeline

December 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.

December 8, 1941 - U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.

December 9, 1941 - China declares war on Japan.

December 10, 1941 - Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam.

December 11, 1941 - Japanese invade Burma.

December 15, 1941 - First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine.

December 16, 1941 - Japanese invade British Borneo.

December 18, 1941 - Japanese invade Hong Kong.

December 22, 1941 - Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines.

December 23, 1941 - General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island.

December 25, 1941 - British surrender at Hong Kong. [some Christmas!]

December 26, 1941 - Manila declared an open city.

December 27, 1941 - Japanese bomb Manila.


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