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A few hours after Japan’s attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a dozen Japanese battalions began an assault on Hong Kong; Hong Kong’s minimal air force was destroyed on the airfield at Kai Tak within five minutes.
The objective of the drama is to have the Moros steal the Holy Cross that sits in the center of a plaza and the Cristianos win it back by staging a sword battle between the two battalions of soldiers, the Moors and the Christians.
And there were a number of outfits —companies, battalions, and at least one regiment—that claimed snafu was coined solely in-house, to the point that the division newspaper once actually tried to authenticate the origin, precipitating a near riot.
Note 11: Goldhagen asserts the German police battalions knew of the planned destruction of the Jews before entering the Soviet Union, rather than two months after, as most historians believe.
Each division was further divided into between four to seven battalions.