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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.

  • 13 - 26 Jul 1944, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary

    Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 17:04
    Book / Document: 
    Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 13 Jul 1944 to Wed, 26 Jul 1944

    Tom Hutchinson's War Diary - Page 46

    Notes:

    14/7/44 - Newspaper    7.50
    18/7/44- Repair Shoes   12-00
    22/7/44 - 2 haircuts   1.80
    24/7/44 - Electricity 12-48 - 5.65     6.93  ((?))
                  - 5 Chicks    22.50

    Supporting information:

    Tags: 
    food
    Hong Kong
    Mongkok
    second world war
    civilians
    survival
    family
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  • 13 Jul 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-06-04 12:40
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 13 Jul 1944

    Windy, showery all day.

    Kirby died last night, buried this evening.

    Chopped firewood.

    News good generally. Canton raided am 11th. Jap paper still reports resistance in Caen & Saipan.

    With Steve pm.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 2019-05-10 19:46
    Book / Document: 
    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 13 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep over Canton airfields

    RESULTS: Pilots spot Japanese bombers over White Cloud airbase, but are unable to close within firing range

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:30 a.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six P-51s from 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Elmore P. Bullock; Flight Officer P.J. Smith (76th FS); Lt. Coakley; Lt. Phillips; Lt. Barr (26th FS); Lt. Kutsher (118th TRS).  Pilots are from three different squadrons, but it is not clear if the aircraft are.

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: An estimated thirty bombers from an unknown unit

    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).

    Tags: 
    air raids

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