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WW II - Japan

 bigpigeon.us webpage World Wars > WW II - Japan > Japan Lashes Out, updated by RAC 11 Jun '19.

Under development 12 Jun 2019.

In December 1941, Japan launched a coordinated series of suprise attacks in the Central Pacific and in eastern and southeastern Asia. For the next five months, the Japanese military was successful beyond their expectations in portions of the central, south, and southwestern Pacific and in southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the Dutch Indies. ​

Links to the WW II - Japan Lashes Out subordinate webpages
==> This is a work in progress - some webpages, including this one, are incomplete.

• Pearl Harbor 1941 (complete)
• Guam and Wake Island (complete)
• Malaya and Singapore Lost (no content)
• Fall of the Philippines, Dec '41 - May '42 (minimal content)
• Fall of the Dutch East Indies (complete)

Major Japanese advances during the first six months of the War with Japan

• 7 Dec: Japanese air attack on United States military bases on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, especially Pearl Harbor.
• 8 Dec: First Japanese bombing of Wake Island in the mid-Pacific. Wake defenders repelled the first landing on 11 Dec. Wake fell on 23 Dec.
• 8 Dec: Japanese attacked Guam, a US territory in the Mariana Islands. Guam fell on 10 Dec.
• 8 Dec: Hong Kong, then a British colony, invaded. Hong Kong fell on 25 Dec.
• 8 Dec: Japanese landings began in Malaya, then a British colony. Japanese then advanced down the Malay Peninsula to the strait opposite Singapore, then a British colony.
• 8 Dec: Half of Philippine Air Force destroyed in air raids eight hours after the Pearl Harbor attack.
• 15 Dec: Japanese landings began the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Resistance ended on 9 Mar 1942.
• 22 Dec: Japanese major landings in the Philippines begin on Luzon Gulf north of Manila. 
• 8 Feb 1942: Japanese launched an offensive on the island fortress of Singapore. Singapore fell on 15 Feb.
• ​3 Apr: Japanese launched their final offensive against American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell six days later. Survivors walked to a prison camp under extremely brutal conditions.
• 6 May: Organized resistance in the Philippines ended with the surrender of the island of Corregidor.
• early 1942 - Japanese overrun much of Burma.

Japanese Empire - Mid 1942

Sources for the  WW II - Japan Lashes Out webpage

• The webpage header photo Pearl Harbor - US Battleships is courtesy of dailymaverick.co.za.