Jame,到目前为止，你给出的都是你的“黄埔5期”的外公的“回忆”，基于“昆仑关全歼扳垣师团”这样的错误，我没有理由去相信他的其它回忆。对不起。
关于香港光复，可以看看下面这篇文章，出自BBC七月31号，作者是前Royal Navy Medic。从文章中就可以看出英国人进香港是日本人还在零星抵抗，而且英国人是敢在中国人之前进香港的。
至于查报纸，一来在这里不可能查中文报纸，二来提供这样的信息应该是你的责任。
Surrender of Hong Kong
By Ken Williams
With much urgency, the fleet aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable departed Subic Bay for Hong Kong in company with a number of other ships. During the days that it took to get to Hong Kong, Indomitable was constantly putting aircraft up on numerous missions and later landing them back on board. I spent a lot of my time in a gun emplacement where I could stand with my eyes level with the flight deck. The roar and bustle fascinated me as the planes were catapulted off and others came in to land with their hooks down ready to snare the arrester cables running across the width of the deck. The number of accidents that happened horrified me. I saw one plane taking off that didn’t seem to have enough power to lift itself above the flight deck; it went over the end of the flight deck and straight down into the water in front of the carrier that immediately ran it down. We didn’t stop, as it was obvious that the pilot could not have survived such a horrific situation, but the crash boat destroyer would have made some attempts at a rescue.
The most frightening experience I had. involved a plane coming in to land that was obviously not low enough. It was waved away for another approach but continued with his landing. It missed the first two arrester cables but caught the third and last one, then came down very heavily onto the flight deck and slewed sideways as his arrester hook disengaged.
I watched the plane; an American Avenger that was now rapidly heading straight towards my position and gasped “JESUS CHRIST!” then ducked down as the plane went right over the top of my head. I could feel the intense heat of the engine as it went over me. I then turned to see it slowly going down sideways into the frothing water at the ship's side. As the plane hit the water I could see the pilot desperately trying to open his canopy and escape. As we left it behind I could see it sinking down and out of sight. I am sure that the destroyer acting as a crash boat astern of the carrier would have made all possible efforts to find and rescue the pilot but I have no idea of his fate.
There was much and great excitement as an “Avenger” aircraft landed. It was carrying a high ranking British civilian and a senior Japanese army officer. I was close enough to the group to overhear much of the conversation as they left the aircraft. The discussion related the Japanese officer being required to take back instructions and a briefing to the Japanese Commander in Hong Kong regarding the imminent surrender. There was some reluctance on the part of the Japanese officer to accept that they had been defeated. I believe that a threat was made to him with regard to his being taken back to the mainland to be handed over to hostile allied and British POW’s that had left the POW camp at Stanley before the actual surrender. It seemed that he finally got the message and was then flown off the carrier to deliver the instructions to his commander in Hong Kong.
On 29th August 1945 we arrived off Hong Kong and our team transferred to a destroyer on August 30th, it with a small group of other ships, began to enter the harbour. It seems that the carrier INDOMITABLE was too large to enter the shallow harbour due to the tide and remained outside in a state of constant readiness.
As we started our move through the harbour, a number of Japanese suicide boats set out towards us with the intent of ramming and sinking the ships. Luckily, the carrier had a number of aircraft in the air and these arrived and quickly destroyed or dispersed the fleet of suicide boats. The carrier’s planes then found the Japanese suicide boat base and it ,and a number of other boats were destroyed.
As we approached the wharf, we could hear a lot of sporadic automatic weapon gunfire and found that a group of Japanese snipers were still determined that the war was not yet over. After some marines had been sent ashore to deal with the snipers, our team landed to see what could be found. It was apparent that all the POW’s had decamped when they got word that the war was over and were hiding out all over the area.
We did individual searches of a number of buildings that were known to have housed prisoners whilst still being subjected to some fanatical sniper fire. We saw every now and then, Japanese troops moving around in small groups, and in trucks and motorcycles. Most of the buildings that we investigated had been ransacked and looted by either the Japanese or Chinese who knew that the war was just about over.
We travelled extensively around the area but did not find any traces of POW’s either military or civilian then set up a small sick quarters to handle any casualties among the marines and the eventual thousands of troops that reoccupied the colony. We stayed in Hong Kong for a while before we set off on our next assignment.
I learned years later that it was politically imperative that the British take the surrender of Hong Kong and re-claim the colony otherwise the Chinese forces would have occupied it and themselves claimed it back as part of China. If this had happened, Hong Kong would have no longer been a British colony for the many years until its formal return to China in the year 1997.
And so, Hong Kong surrendered and came back into the hands of the British ? meanwhile we had more work to do elsewhere…
关于香港光复，可以看看下面这篇文章，出自BBC七月31号，作者是前Royal Navy Medic。从文章中就可以看出英国人进香港是日本人还在零星抵抗，而且英国人是敢在中国人之前进香港的。
至于查报纸，一来在这里不可能查中文报纸，二来提供这样的信息应该是你的责任。
Surrender of Hong Kong
By Ken Williams
With much urgency, the fleet aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable departed Subic Bay for Hong Kong in company with a number of other ships. During the days that it took to get to Hong Kong, Indomitable was constantly putting aircraft up on numerous missions and later landing them back on board. I spent a lot of my time in a gun emplacement where I could stand with my eyes level with the flight deck. The roar and bustle fascinated me as the planes were catapulted off and others came in to land with their hooks down ready to snare the arrester cables running across the width of the deck. The number of accidents that happened horrified me. I saw one plane taking off that didn’t seem to have enough power to lift itself above the flight deck; it went over the end of the flight deck and straight down into the water in front of the carrier that immediately ran it down. We didn’t stop, as it was obvious that the pilot could not have survived such a horrific situation, but the crash boat destroyer would have made some attempts at a rescue.
The most frightening experience I had. involved a plane coming in to land that was obviously not low enough. It was waved away for another approach but continued with his landing. It missed the first two arrester cables but caught the third and last one, then came down very heavily onto the flight deck and slewed sideways as his arrester hook disengaged.
I watched the plane; an American Avenger that was now rapidly heading straight towards my position and gasped “JESUS CHRIST!” then ducked down as the plane went right over the top of my head. I could feel the intense heat of the engine as it went over me. I then turned to see it slowly going down sideways into the frothing water at the ship's side. As the plane hit the water I could see the pilot desperately trying to open his canopy and escape. As we left it behind I could see it sinking down and out of sight. I am sure that the destroyer acting as a crash boat astern of the carrier would have made all possible efforts to find and rescue the pilot but I have no idea of his fate.
There was much and great excitement as an “Avenger” aircraft landed. It was carrying a high ranking British civilian and a senior Japanese army officer. I was close enough to the group to overhear much of the conversation as they left the aircraft. The discussion related the Japanese officer being required to take back instructions and a briefing to the Japanese Commander in Hong Kong regarding the imminent surrender. There was some reluctance on the part of the Japanese officer to accept that they had been defeated. I believe that a threat was made to him with regard to his being taken back to the mainland to be handed over to hostile allied and British POW’s that had left the POW camp at Stanley before the actual surrender. It seemed that he finally got the message and was then flown off the carrier to deliver the instructions to his commander in Hong Kong.
On 29th August 1945 we arrived off Hong Kong and our team transferred to a destroyer on August 30th, it with a small group of other ships, began to enter the harbour. It seems that the carrier INDOMITABLE was too large to enter the shallow harbour due to the tide and remained outside in a state of constant readiness.
As we started our move through the harbour, a number of Japanese suicide boats set out towards us with the intent of ramming and sinking the ships. Luckily, the carrier had a number of aircraft in the air and these arrived and quickly destroyed or dispersed the fleet of suicide boats. The carrier’s planes then found the Japanese suicide boat base and it ,and a number of other boats were destroyed.
As we approached the wharf, we could hear a lot of sporadic automatic weapon gunfire and found that a group of Japanese snipers were still determined that the war was not yet over. After some marines had been sent ashore to deal with the snipers, our team landed to see what could be found. It was apparent that all the POW’s had decamped when they got word that the war was over and were hiding out all over the area.
We did individual searches of a number of buildings that were known to have housed prisoners whilst still being subjected to some fanatical sniper fire. We saw every now and then, Japanese troops moving around in small groups, and in trucks and motorcycles. Most of the buildings that we investigated had been ransacked and looted by either the Japanese or Chinese who knew that the war was just about over.
We travelled extensively around the area but did not find any traces of POW’s either military or civilian then set up a small sick quarters to handle any casualties among the marines and the eventual thousands of troops that reoccupied the colony. We stayed in Hong Kong for a while before we set off on our next assignment.
I learned years later that it was politically imperative that the British take the surrender of Hong Kong and re-claim the colony otherwise the Chinese forces would have occupied it and themselves claimed it back as part of China. If this had happened, Hong Kong would have no longer been a British colony for the many years until its formal return to China in the year 1997.
And so, Hong Kong surrendered and came back into the hands of the British ? meanwhile we had more work to do elsewhere…
