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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.

  • 16 Oct 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:38
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    Lights came on again.

    Started a Retreat, with daily talks, and private readings in evenings.

    Terrific air raid, planes like great silver birds.

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  • 16 Oct 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-02-24 21:54
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    The raid was reported in the Hongkong News:

    Air Raids on Hong Kong-1944

    Air Raids on Hong Kong-1944

    Air Raids on Hong Kong-1944

  • 16 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-11-20 21:41
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    Fine, warm. NE wind.

    Cookhouse construction & woodchopping.

    Heavy raid on HK by about 30 or 40 big bombers - & fighter escort – at 4pm. A.A. fire useless & no apparent air opposition. All clear at 5.15pm.

    Didn’t see Steve because everything was late.

    No papers.

    Rice being shifted to godowns all day. 2000 bags in by midn’t.

  • 16 Oct 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-01-26 15:25
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    Harry Ching's wartime diary
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    Big raid. Family jitters. Saw about 30. Beautiful sight glittering in sun. Said to be China based. Officially six downed. Rumour 200 school kids killed Hung Hom school.

  • 16 Oct 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-09-05 12:26
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    Unloaded rice from junk   7-11 p.m. Electricity resumed

    Heavy p.m. Raid  36 planes

  • 16 Oct 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-09-03 19:42
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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    Mon, 16 Oct 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton and Hong Kong

    RESULTS: Pre-strike photos are taken of Victoria Harbor.  Pilot reports that numerous ships are in port.  No photos are taken of the Canton airbases, which are obscured by cloud.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:45 to 9:55 a.m. over Hong Kong

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-5B (#388) from Flight B, 21st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Neely

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: One aircraft of unknown type/unit attempts without success to intercept Lt. Neely’s aircraft.

    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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