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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 1 - 12 Jul 1944, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary

    Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 17:02
    Book / Document: 
    Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944 to Wed, 12 Jul 1944

    Tom Hutchinson's War Diary - Page 45

    Notes:

    1st - 2 pces Soap   6.00
    2/7/44- Baked bread 7lbs 4 oz. Gave 1lb to Lim 1/2 lb to May ((May Guest?)). Sold "Flowering Flowers" as prints to Kastman for ¥7.50
    3/7/44 - 30 bars Soap @2.75    82.50     3 toothbrushes   6.-
    30/6 - 2 Bars Soap    6.-
    7/7/44 - Took own Shoes to Jok Kee. He wants ¥9.00 for ((?)) Heels + Girlie's shoes  3-00    ¥12.-
    12/7/44 - Repair umbrella 3.00    Repair 2 buckets + Enamel Pail    2.-

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    Mongkok
    second world war
    civilians
    survival
    family
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  • 1 Jul 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-06-02 12:56
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944

    Hot, dry.

    Work on wall & wood chopping aft.

    Oil, curry pwdr. cigarettes & 2 boxes matches issued. Canteen open am but due to none arrival of ordered goods many things ran out before all people were served.

    P. Henriot (Prop. Minst. of France) assassinated 28th. Allies 25mls S & SW of Florence, Sienna. Advances made on all other fronts. US casualties to date. Killed 35,148. Wounded 86,789, missing 45,725, Prs’s. 36,467.

    Jap Dr. ask Prof. Digby for a signed document that would state the Jap. Drs usefulness, ability etc. in the Camp & of the lack of cooperation afforded him by the Japs i/c.

    Yamashita stated in jest “That he would be applying for repatriation soon”, during a conversation re parcels & repatriation for us. Perhaps his jest will become fact far sooner than he expects.

    With Steve pm.

  • 1 Jul 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-06-24 20:44
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944

    Bulletin….”2 second-hand tyres for hosp. stretcher cost Y 550 each”

    Twydale, Brenchley

    B.O.

  • 1 Jul 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-07-02 18:38
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944

    Niece Florrie sends message that her brother Freddie not home since last night. I press them come next day. Freddie's absence very unsettling. Apparently no rest for us. Florrie has been to enquire. Received sympathy but no information.

  • 01 Jul 1944, INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941

    Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Wed, 2017-01-04 15:48
    Book / Document: 
    INTERNED - DECEMBER 1941
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944

    ((Following text is undated:))

    Owen, my husband, was taken out of the camp one morning at nine-o-clock, by the Japanese for interrogation concerning the airport, and, as the day wore on, and he did not come back, I was in a dreadfully anxious state and wondered whether I would ever see him again.  Thankfully, at nine-o-clock at night he returned, but I will never forget that day.

  • 01 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2019-05-04 02:32
    Book / Document: 
    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 1 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Block Pearl River channels with anti-ship mines

    RESULTS: B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

    TIME OVER TARGET: Evening

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-24Js from the 308th Heavy Bomb Group

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Twelve anti-ship mines, most likely a mix of Mark 13 and Mark 13-5

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

    SOURCES: Original mission reports and other documents in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.

    Information compiled by Steven K. Bailey, author of Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

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