Battle of Hong Kong 1941 - Pacific War DOCUMENTARY

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As a local Hong Kong citizen, I'd like to express my gratitude for K&G team for making this amazing video! My grandmother and her family avoided death by surrendering the family house to the Imperial army... She's still alive and healthy today!

This part of the war seems so rarely covered, it’s nice to see this on Kings and Generals. We need more on the Asian theater!

My grandfather was living there as a kid when the Japanese invaded, everything of value was stolen from his home and his dad was one of those tortured after the Japanese secured control of the island. I can see why he never wanted to talk about it, the battle lasted a lot longer than history books make it out.

The Gin Drinkers Line, the most British thing I ever heard.

HOLY SMOKES!!! My home city is featured on Kings and Generals? This is the best day ever!! On behalf of the entire Hong Kong population, thank you for making this video to let more people know this exceptional historic event!!

It's nice to see the Canadian and Indian troops recognized, rather than called "British" like many histories do.

My Uncle was captured at Hong Kong on Christmas day of 1941. He was a Rifleman with the Canadian Army. He spent the next nearly 4 years - until liberated at the end of 1945 as a POW of the Japanese. He was tortured, nearly starved, beaten for no reason and went from a strong young man of 5'11" tall and 175 pounds at capture to under 100 pounds at liberation. He was a slave labourer in Japan at a ship yard, a coal mine and a steel plant. He managed to survive the war and return to Canada... but he died young... only 52 years old. A result of his poor treatment as a POW. His name was Russell Lancaster.... never forget!

"The spies in Hong Kong motivated desertions" I imagine their motivating: "C'mon the Japanese are nice, they will totally not execute civilians, medical personnel, Fort garissons...

Man it feels so weird hearing places referred to that I can see out of my apartment where so many years ago there was conflict and now pretty much just buildings.

Never forget Brigadier John Lawson, commander of the East Brigade, who was surrounded and killed at Wong Nai Chung Gap, along with his staff. Lawson radioed his commanders that he was "going outside to fight it out" and left his pillbox with a pistol in each hand. He was killed in the ensuing fight.

As a Hongkonger, thank you so much for covering the history of my hometown.

Considering nobody else is talking about them in the comments, my respect to “The Hughsiliers” and their last stand, especially considering that they weren’t professional soldiers. 🇬🇧 🇭🇰

I'm really grateful to see the Battle of Hong Kong covered! I've heard so many stories of hardship about the war from my grandparent's generation in Hong Kong, so it is quite meaningful to see WW2 material that directly covers my own family history.

Thank you to brave Canadians and Punjabis who defended Hong Kong, thousands of miles away from their homes.

I grew up in the quiet neighborhood of Jardine Lookout .. didnt even know about its bloody past. Thanks for the video!

Ok, now i can't wait for a video about Singapore siege, one of the most humiliating british military defeat in history, excellent video as always

I am a Hong Konger. Thank you for your fantastic document. This is the history that every Hong Kongers will never forget.

As a Hong Kong person and a local tour docent I am so proud that this battle (a) lasted 18 gruesome days against vastly superior Japanese forces and (b) made it into this channel!!

I'm a Hongkonger and I'm glad this video is made. I am currently working on a project to remove the dirt and vegetation which covers part of the Shing Mun Redoubt here, part of the Gin Drinkers Line, and after that people can access it more easily If you would like to know more about the Battle of Hong Kong, I recommend reading Tony Banham's books Edit: I will be dedicating my entire holiday on maintaining Shing Mun Redoubt. Since I haven't gone there for 2 months due to exams it's probably a bit overgrown again, I will be heading there on this Friday to clean up the vegetation and continue digging up a trench which is half covered. While the design of the redoubt is seriously flawed, they did a good job on drainage and ventilation, I can stay there in summer and not drop a sweat. I really hope the government would preserve these places, but I guess they aren't interested in that. I posted a video of a timelapse of 10 minutes of digging on my channel, might do a full video tour later Edit: Fun story, usually during my cleanups I tour random people through the redoubt tunnels because obviously your average visitor isn't going to be able to navigate in the dark. I once found a group of people who cleaned up trash nearby and had paint remover on them, I toured them through the entire redoubt so that they could clear the graffiti and trash inside, teamwork ;)