Pertempuran Hong Kong

Pertempuran Hong Kong
Bagian dari Perang Dunia II
Tanggal 8–25 Desember 1941 Lokasi Hong Kong dan sekitarnya Hasil Kemenangan Jepang Pendudukan Jepang di Hong Kong
Pihak terlibat
Britania Raya Kanada Kemaharajaan Britania Hong Kong	Kekaisaran Jepang
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Mark Aitchison Young Christopher Michael Maltby	Sakai Takashi
Kekuatan
15.000 tentara	50.000 tentara
Korban
4.500 tewas dan terluka 8.500 ditangkap	706 tewas 1.534 terluka

Pertempuran Hong Kong terjadi selama teater Pasifik Perang Dunia II. Pertempuran ini dimulai pada tanggal 8 Desember 1941 dan berakhir pada Hari Natal dengan Hong Kong diserahkan ke tangan Kekaisaran Jepang.

Pranala luar

• BBC submissions Diarsipkan 2011-08-13 di Wayback Machine.
• Official report by Major-General C.M Maltby, G.O.C. Hong Kong
• Royal Engineers Museum Diarsipkan 2009-05-03 di Wayback Machine. Royal Engineers and the Second World War - the Far East
• Canadians at Hong Kong Diarsipkan 2012-01-24 di Wayback Machine. - Canadians and the Battle of Hong Kong.
• MTB The 2nd MTB Flotilla escapes from Hong Kong
• GUEST OF HIROHITO by Kenneth Cambon, M.D. Story of the youngest royal rifle Diarsipkan 2011-08-16 di Wayback Machine.
• The Defence of Hong Kong: December 1941 by Terry CoppPDF
• Report No. 163 Canadian Participation in the Defence of Hong Kong, December, 1941PDF (Archived version as of 24 August 2006)
• Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association
• The Fall of Hong Kong
• The Hong Kong Defence
• Thomas David Frank Evans, Roll Call at Oeyama, P.O.W. Remembers, 1985
• Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, University of British Columbia Press; Hardcover (5/1/2003): ISBN 0-7748-1044-0. Paperback (1/1/2004): ISBN 0-7748-1045-9
• The blog of the author of the above book
• Tony Banham, Battle of Hong Kong Background And Battlefield Tour Points of Interest
• Snow, Philip (2003). The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation. Yale University Press. ISBN ISBN 0-300-09352-7 (Hardback); ISBN 0-300-10373-5 (Paperback). 
• "The detailed story of the actual battle and a tribute to Major Maurice A. Parker, CO "D" Coy, Royal Rifles of Canada. Diarsipkan 2009-10-28 di Wayback Machine.
• "The story of Alfred Babin, stretcher bearer, HQ Company, Royal Rifles of Canada.
• Philip Doddridge, Memories Uninvited - "A fascinating story of a young man who finds himself caught up in the horrific battle for Hong Kong and the years of captivity he lived through after the battle was over on December 25th, 1941." Diarsipkan 2009-07-24 di Wayback Machine.
• "Story of the Stanford family and the effect of the fall of Hong Kong in 1941."
• the fall of Hong Kong as seen from a civilian point of view: "Taken in Hong Kong, 8 December 1941" is the story of an American Standard Oil employee interned at Stanley Prison, and repatriated via the Asama Maru and Gripsholm. Available amazon.com
• Burton, John (2006). Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-096-X.