The author asked the viewers to post 5 more facts about Pearl Harbor. One fact was that the Japanese also attacked Hong Kong on that day. One of my parents’ friends joined the marines in 1936 and was stationed at the American embassy as a marine guard. He told me that their papers or id cards had not been signed by the proper embassy official.
He spent all of WWII in a Japanese POW camp. Many of his fellow marines did not.
It's nice to know that someone else knows about this. Japan attacked Hong Kong 8 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. British commonwealth forces surrendered on Christmas day. US consulate staff was interned at a camp and many of them were later released. However, the US Consul was killed prior to this release because he fell down a flight of stairs. He is buried in Hong Kong.
He and members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles of Canada, and members of various British, Indian and Canadian support units. For the few who survived almost six years in Jap prison camps, I cannot imagine the hell.
Wasn’t Manila also hit? Dec 8, on the other side of the international date line.