Japanese bomb Kowloon

I was with D Company until the day the war broke out. The night before they moved most of the troops over to the island. And I was one of the ones who was left on the... and we got up that morning, we went....we had our breakfast and I came out and I was washing my pans and utensils. And one of the chaps, his name was Herbie Fortune he says, “Who said we didn’t have an Air Force? ” All these planes were coming over and he started to count them. He got to about thirteen, I think. When the first bomb landed on the parade ground. And the second one hit the officer’s quarters on the other side of us. And I was down in the (inaudible)? ? ? by this time, along with the rest of them. So we decided we didn’t have an Air Force and the war started, so that’s how I found out that there was a war on.