CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

 

1941

Dec.

7

Pearl Harbor raid.

 

8

Hong Kong invaded. Japanese sank HMS Peterel.

 

25

Fall of Hong Kong.

 

1942

Jan.

 

Imprisonment in Shamshuipo Camp, Hong Kong.

 

 

Internment in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong.

Apr.

18

Doolittle raids on Japan.

Jun.

18

1st American Repatriation - Asama Maru and Conte Verde.

Aug.

17

British Repatriation - Komakura Maru.

Nov.

5

Internment in Temple Hill, Chefoo.

 

 

Internment in Haifong Road, Shanghai.

 

1943

Jan.

 

Internment in Budong Camp, Shanghai.

Feb.

 

Internment in Yangzhou Camps.

Mar.

 

Internment in other Shanghai camps - Longhua,

 

 

Columbia Country Club, Yu Yuen Road, Ash Camp & Zhabei.

 

 

Internment in Weixian Camp from Tianjin, Qingdao & Peking.

Aug.

16

Transfer of Priests & Nuns from Weixian to Peking.

Sept.

22

2nd American Repatriation - Teia Maru.

 

 

Transfer of Temple Hill Camp to Weixian.

 

 

Italians interned in Weixian Camp.

Oct.

 

Transfer of Yangzhou A & B Camps to Shanghai camps.

 

1944

Jun.

28

Internment of elderly and sick, and mothers with children, in Lincoln Avenue Camp, Shanghai.

 

1945

May

8

V-E Day.

 

 

Jiangwan prisoners transferred to Japan.

 

 

Transfer of Haifong Road prisoners to Fengtai.

 

 

Transfer of Columbia Country Club & Yu Yuen Road Camps to Yangzipu Camp

Aug.

10

Transfer of Technicians & their families from Stanley Camp to Kowloon.

 

6-14

Dropping of atomic bombs and Japanese surrender.

 

15

Internment camps taken over by Allied personnel. Sept/ Oct. Departure of internees from all camps.

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