Pearl Harbor Was The First of 31 Massive Raids.

The Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor were just the beginning of a massive purloin of lands and sea channels around the Japanese Islands. To give some perspective: here are the series of attacks the Japanese made after Pearl Harbor.

December 7, 1941 — Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.

December 8, 1941 Japanese landed near Singapore and entered Thailand.

December 10, 1941 — Japanese invaded the Philippines and also seized Guam.

December 11, 1941 — Japanese invaded Burma.

December 16, 1941 — Japanese invaded British Borneo.

December 18, 1941 — Japanese invaded Hong Kong.

December 22, 1941 — Japanese invaded Luzon in the Philippines.

December 23, 1941 — General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island.

December 25, 1941 — British surrendered at Hong Kong.

December 26, 1941 — Manila declared an open city.

December 27, 1941 — Japanese bombed Manila.

January 2, 1942 — The Japanese captured Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite.

January 7, 1942 — Japanese attacked Bataan in the Philippines.

January 11, 1942 — Japanese invaded Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo.

January 16, 1942 — Japanese began an advance into Burma.

January 18, 1942 — German-Japanese-Italian military agreement was signed in Berlin.

January 19, 1942 — Japanese took North Borneo.

January 23, 1942 — Japanese took Rabaul on New Britain in the Solomon Islands and also invade Bougainville, the largest island.

January 27, 1942 — First Japanese warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine.

February 2, 1942 — Japanese invaded Java in the Dutch East Indies.

February 8/9 — Japanese invaded Singapore.

February 14, 1942 — Japanese invaded Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies.

February 15, 1942 — British surrendered at Singapore.

By the middle of 1943, Japan ruled one fifth of the surface of the Earth. Their army was as impervious to attack as the Wehrmacht. Their air force extremely robust and replete with experienced combat veterans. They drove back the US, the British, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Canadians and the French with impunity.

They didn’t last long. But we were the first punch of a long long slog,