Fall of Hong Kong (1941)
44,624Initially Winston Churchill regarded the territory as a outpost and would not reinforce it against impending attack and reduced the British garrison there to fight the ongoing war in Europe.
From September 1941, he reversed this decision and increase the manpower of the garrison with commonwealth troops as a military deterrent against the Japanese forces.
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Hong Kong 1941–45: First strike in the Pacific War
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