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 | 1941-12-08 | Wake Island Attacked | 27 Japanese medium "Nell" bombers flown from bases on Kwajalein in the Marshall Island group attacked Wake Island, destroying eight of the 12 F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft belonging to Marine Corps fighter squadron VMF-211 on the ground. | Read about 'Wake Island Attacked' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Wake Island Attacked' | |
| 1941-12-08 | 1941-12-25 | Battle of Hong Kong | Eighteen days after the battle began, British colonial officials headed by the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered in person at the Japanese headquarters. This day is known in Hong Kong as "Black Christmas". | Read about 'Battle of Hong Kong' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Hong Kong' |
| 1941-12-08 | Batan Island Landing | The Japanese 14th Army began its invasion of the Philippines with a landing on Batan Island (not to be confused with Bataan Peninsula), 190 km off the north coast of Luzon | Read about 'Batan Island Landing' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Batan Island Landing' | |
| 1941-12-08 | 1942-03-15 | Battle of Singapore | The Japanese assault on the Allied stronghold at Singapore, the "Gibraltar of the East". About 80,000 British, Australian and Indian troops became POWs. Churchill called the fall of Singapore the "worst disaster" in British history. | Read about 'Battle of Singapore' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Singapore' |
| 1941-12-08 | 1941-12-10 | First Battle of Guam | Almost 6000 Japanese troops quickly overwhelm the small US garrison of Marines (547) stationed on Guam. | Read about 'First Battle of Guam' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'First Battle of Guam' |
 | 1941-12-07 | Pearl Harbour | The Japanese Navy conducts a surprise attack on the US Navy based at Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II. It was intended as a preventive action to detain the U.S. Pacific Fleet. | Read about 'Pearl Harbour' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Pearl Harbour' | |
| 1941-12-05 | Moscow Winter | Eighty-eight Soviet divisions, shielded by a blizzard, attack sixty-seven German divisions spread along a five hundred mile front. German forces, ill equipped to deal with the Russian winter, are pushed back. | Read about 'Moscow Winter' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Moscow Winter' | |
 | 1941-11-25 | Sinking of the HMS Barham | Sinking of the HMS Barham by U-331 | Read about 'Sinking of the HMS Barham' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sinking of the HMS Barham' | |
| 1941-11-19 | HMAS Sydney and Kormoran | Light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German aux cruiser Kormoran fought each other off Western Australia. The two ships severely damaged one another, and Sydney was lost with all of her 645 crew members. Kormoran was scuttled and her crew became POWs. | Read about 'HMAS Sydney and Kormoran' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'HMAS Sydney and Kormoran' | |
| 1941-11-13 | 1941-11-14 | Sinking HMS Ark Royal... | Sinking of the HMS Ark Royal by the U-81. Ark Royal was struck by a single torpedo on 13 November and sank on 14 November | Read about 'Sinking HMS Ark Royal...' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sinking HMS Ark Royal...' |
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