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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.

  • 2 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-03-07 22:06
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 2 Apr 1944

    Dull, rained & blew pm.

    Above rations issued. ((Probably the "10 days rations. 4oz oil. 1.06oz tea. 1.74 sugar. 1.5 curry pwdr." mentioned in yesterday's diary entry.))

    Ground rice for bread.

    Saw Steve pm & he is in a bad way really.

    A lousy day altogether. Constant thoughts of food, fruit cake & slabs of chocolate predominate.

    New system of roll-call promulgated. 

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  • 02 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-04-04 14:47
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 2 Apr 1944

    Palm Sunday

    Broson / Ream

    Roll call daily (?) by Bl Rgn 8 qrt & 8 am & 9.30 pm

    Drown / Jenner

  • 02 Apr 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 2019-03-13 21:23
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 2 Apr 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep over Canton airfields

    RESULTS: P-51 fighter pilots strafe ground vehicles, buildings, and parked aircraft at Tien Ho, White Cloud, and University airfields. 

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~3:00-3:10 p.m.

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

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain Butler; Lt. Melgard; 2nd Lt. Jerome F. Eisenman; Lt. Moore; Lt. Short; Lt. Carpenter; Lt. Christensen; Lt. Bedient

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 4,000 rounds of .50-caliber heavy machine gun

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None are in the air; units on the ground are unknown

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: Three Japanese aircraft on the ground are damaged by strafing.

    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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