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In this photograph taken on December 3, 2016, Martin Heyes (R), a former British Army officer who later served in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, speaks at the location of an anti-aircraft artillery site used during the Battle of Hong Kong as he leads a guided historical walk along the territory's Wong Nai Chung Gap trail. High up on a hillside in the south of Hong Kong, shaded beneath dense green foliage, are the pockmarked remnants of World War II pillboxes, a reminder of the city's failed attempt to fend off a Japanese invasion. It is 75 years since Hong Kong fell -- less than three weeks after the Japanese first attacked what was then a British colony. / AFP / TENGKU Bahar / TO GO WITH HongKong Japan politics WWII (Photo credit should read TENGKU BAHAR/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photograph taken on December 3, 2016, Martin Heyes (R), a former British Army officer who later served in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, speaks at the location of an anti-aircraft artillery site used during the Battle of Hong Kong as he leads a guided historical walk along the territory's Wong Nai Chung Gap trail.
High up on a hillside in the south of Hong Kong, shaded beneath dense green foliage, are the pockmarked remnants of World War II pillboxes, a reminder of the city's failed attempt to fend off a Japanese invasion. It is 75 years since Hong Kong fell -- less than three weeks after the Japanese first attacked what was then a British colony. 
 / AFP / TENGKU Bahar / TO GO WITH HongKong Japan politics WWII         (Photo credit should read TENGKU BAHAR/AFP/Getty Images)