QuickCheck: Did the first Allied Forces-Japan fight of WW2 take place in Malayan skies?


A Lockheed Hudson Mk III taking off at the 2019 Australian International Airshow.

EVER since the surprise attack on the US Navy's base at Pearl Harbour by Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft on Dec 7, 1941, it has been assumed that "this day that will live in infamy" marked the beginning of World War 2 in the Pacific.

However, it has been argued that the first shots and first deaths came an hour earlier in the skies off Kelantan in what was then British-colonised Malaya.

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