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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.

  • 18 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-02-19 21:22
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    All the rumours are conflicting: we are doing well in Egypt and Russia.. we are NOT doing ditto.

    At canteen today I bought a Shnghai produced 'Lacovomalt' for Mum, and someone either swiped it in a split second, or else the correct amount weren't handed out from stock:  still, they gave me another tin.

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  • 18 Jul 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-06-26 17:06
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    No fresh meat again.

    Trouble in town.

    Bodies on beach near Cemetery.

    Fine day.

  • 18 Jul 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-07-03 17:12
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    Ella Buuck's wartime diary
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    It’s getting warmer and the crisp air is grand. It’s perfect to sit out on the open deck and soak up air and sunshine. The children all have a cold, but this grand air should cure it quickly.

    Someone gave me a pair of brown suede shoes and they fit fine. Boy what a different feeling to have shoes on that look like something! I also received a pair of hose from some kind lady, but one hardly dare wear them lest we have nothing when we land. I have gone without for almost 6 months so I hardly miss them.

  • 18 Jul 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2016-05-16 17:55
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    Rudolf Zindel, the Red Cross Delegate, makes his second visit to Stanley, this time in the company of Takeo Oda of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Department.

    Zindel will not report on this and his first visit until December, when he will sum up affairs as 'definitely "satisfactory," although there was still room for further improvement in several respects'.

    Source:

    Rudolf Zindel, 'Visits to Prisoner of War and Civilian Internment Camps in Hongkong', attached to General Letter No. 10/42, 18th. December 1942 in Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, BG017 07-61

  • 18 Jul 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-06-27 13:46
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    1 tin corned beef (12.oz.) for 3 for 2 meals.

    Issue of Royal leaf cigarettes 4 pkts. For $1.20

  • 18 Jul 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2017-07-08 22:51
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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    Sat, 18 Jul 1942

    OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield at Canton

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~4:15 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-25s from 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) escorted by 3 P-40Es from 23rd Fighter Group.  All aircraft are from the China Air Task Force (10th Air Force).

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major William E. Bayse (B-25s); Major Edward F. Rector (P-40s)

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Chinese 50-kg incendiary bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs

    RESULTS: At least six Japanese aircraft bombed on the ground at Tien Ho

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: 50 to 60 Japanese aircraft reported on ground at Tien Ho.  None spotted in the air.

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

    SOURCES: Original 11th Bomb Squadron mission report in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.  I do not, however, have the mission report for the P-40s.

    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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