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.

12 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 03:30

Book / Document:
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date(s) of events described:
Mon, 12 Jul 1943
Showery.
((G))
No swim.
((G))
Choir practice 5-5.30.
Evan’s gear sent for. ((Probably Pennefather-Evans, who Jones reported was arrested the day before.))
((G))
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12 Jul 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2017-07-29 06:41

Book / Document:
WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Date(s) of events described:
Mon, 12 Jul 1943
OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton

TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:30 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40K from 74^th Fighter Squadron (23^rd Fighter Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Norval C. Bonawitz; Lt. Anderson

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: Due to clouds and rain, pilots are unable to see the ground in the Canton area

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

SOURCES: Original mission report 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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