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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.

  • 11 May 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-05-23 17:55
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Fri, 11 May 1945

    Paper says Allies have retreated from Okinawa; also that prisoners of war returning from Germany were mobbed in England - sounds wonderful, yet still unreal to us here.

    I think I'll have to be a Pacifist really because it's the only way I can see, yet still want to be intensely nationalistic and patriotic, therefore go to meeting to try to learn how to reconcile the two.

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  • 11 May 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2015-05-06 16:45
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 11 May 1945

    Cloudy, fine.

    Outside roll-call 8am.

    Brackets for blood-transfusion tubes.

    Hitler’s body cannot be found. Great jubilation at home & in US on 8th. All power to be directed against Japs now. Dutch assist in Tarakan. Jap bombed heavily.

    Oil, tea, sugar & salt issued. 25% cut in oil.

    ∴C. ((Not sure if this is the same person as "G", or someone else.))

  • 11 May 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-05-03 16:44
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 11 May 1945

    Outdoor a.m. roll-call

    Wt 130 lbs.


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