Canada declares war on Germany - the first and only time Canada has declared war on another country on its own. Soon, The first Canadian convoy of merchant ships sails for Britain and the first of the main body of Canadian troops arrive in Scotland on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to train pilots and aircrew in Canada, away from the fighting. They are forced to leave days later when France surrenders to the NazisHong Kong is attacked by the Japanese; on December 25. Hong Kong falls (of 1,975 Canadian troops, 290 were killed with the remaining 1,685 taken prisoners. A Royal Canadian Air Force plane spots the Japanese fleet en route to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and gives a warning in time for the successful defence of the island (Winston Churchill cites this episode as "the most dangerous moment of the war") and more than 1,200 Canadian and Newfoundland merchant seamen had been killed at sea since the beginning of the war. The Canadian Corps in Italy attempts to break through into the Lombardy Plain and attain the Senio River, the northernmost outpost of the Italian Front.Germany surrenders, the war in Europe ends; the next day, May 8, is declared V-E Day.dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan and, days later, the necessity of sending  80,000 Canadian troops who volunteered to serve in the Pacific into battle and Japan surrenders - V-J Day. The Second World War is officially over.