70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
12 Jul 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-09 15:4812 Jul 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-06-04 12:38Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 12 Jul 1944Windy, showers, brightened pm.
Caen fell 9th. Russians broke into Vilna 9th. All other news good.
Rec. letter from Marj dated Aug.1943, all well with them both bless’em. Posted my monthly card to them.
With Steve pm.
12 Jul 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2015-07-09 18:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 12 Jul 1944Death from malaria of Master Mariner William Kirby, aged 54.
12 Jul 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2016-07-03 12:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 12 Jul 1944Death – W.E. Kirby (54), Sec. China Coast Officers’ Guild (Cerebral Malaria)
Issue 6 ozs. Salt
12 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 2019-05-09 21:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 12 Jul 1944OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton airfields
RESULTS: No aircraft are observed on the ground at Tien Ho and White Cloud airbases
TIME OVER TARGET: ~5:25 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-51s from 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Charles E. Griffith; Lt. Reeves
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Eight Ki-44 that likely belong to the 85th Sentai attempt to intercept the P-51s without success.
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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