Badly outnumbered
Heroes Remember
Transcript
The Japs, 120,000, altogether between us and
the Chinese and the English soldiers
are only about maybe 10,000.
So 10,000 against 120,000 is a big…
but we had a pretty tough time.
Because Hong Kong is all mountains,
there’s no level field and you had to run
from one place to the other, you know, and
shoot what you could and
hide where you could.
It wasn’t very orderly for one thing,
you know, because everybody was running
from one way to the other and everybody
got most of them maybe you were on your own,
you know, you had to go where you could and
fight yourself out but we got kind of,
once the Japs started to land on
Hong Kong itself,
it didn’t take them very long.
The Island is only about 15 by
15 miles and it’s not very much
room to that you can run to.
So the Japs took us prisoner for
a while the same, that day when
the governor surrendered the island.
Description
Mr. Leblanc talks about the balance of power and the terrain.
Jean Leblanc
Jean Leblanc was born in New Richmond, Quebec in 1932. His mother died when he was only three years old and he lived with his father and brother until he joined the army in 1940 at 16 years of age. Mr. Leblanc admits that he really didn't know what the army was all about at the time of enlistment.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Anciens Combattants Canada
- Recorded:
- February 2, 1999
- Duration:
- 1:32
- Person Interviewed:
- Jean Leblanc
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Hong Kong
- Battle/Campaign:
- Hong Kong
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Royal Rifles of Canada
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