Japanese aerial photograph of the HMS Price of Wales and HMS Repulse under attack.
On this Wednesday, December 10, 1941, the Japanese advance continued as previously recorded in our entry in Today In Wyoming's History: December 10.
1941 Guam surrenders to a Japanese landing force after a two-day battle.
Japanese depiction of their landing on Guam.
Japanese aircraft sink HMSs Prince of Wales and Repulse, South China Sea.
The event was significant in that it stripped Singapore of a naval defense, and it was not equipped to be defended solely by ground forces. Additionally, it was a terrible psychological defeat for the Royal Navy.
The two ships were the first major naval vessels to be sunk entirely from the air while actively defending themselves.
Japanese naval aircraft bomb Cavite Navy Yard, Manila Bay.
Japanese troops begin landings in northern Luzon.
A B17C sent on a scouting mission detected a Japanese landing force north of Aparri in the Philippines and made a bombing run on the ships. It failed to sink anything, but did inflict some damage.
On its return to its base at Luzon it was attacked by Japanese fighters. After ordering the crew to bail out, Cpt. Colin Kelly was killed attempting to pilot the plane back to base. He became the first American B17 pilot to die in World War Two.
Wartime illustration of Cpt. Kelly.
USS Enterprise aircraft sink sub I-70..
Prewar photograph of the I70.
Slightly before midnight, Japanese vessels were spotted off of Wake Island.
Iowa's Postville Herald reported that while the nation was at war, the citizens were calm.
In Washington D. C. it was discovered that vandals had cut down some Japanese Cherry Trees in an act of retributive vandalism. The trees had been a gift from Japan to the United States in 1912.
U.S. TO GIVE TRANSIT TO MEXICAN TROOPS; Forces Will Cross Arizona to Guard Lower California Against Japanese Raids
So read a headline in the New York Times.
It was significant in that Mexico's position in the war was still undetermined.
The Red Army encircled the German 45th, 95th and 134th Infantry Divisions at Livny, although they ultimately broke out.
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