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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 Sep 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Grace on Tue, 2014-09-02 14:04
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 2 Sep 1944

    9.30 a.m. Outdoor roll-call

    Ox tongue for pm meal

    Workers received "back pay" cigarettes

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

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-09-04 18:09
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 2 Sep 1944

    Fine. Wind SE.

    Outside roll-call 9.15AM.

    4 Pkt.Cigs issued. Japs making up deficiency of workers cigs 1-10Aug.

    Parcels promised & expected this afternoon again delayed, damn their bloody slant eyes. Canteen gear promised for tomorrow arrived today.

    Russians nearing Bucharest. Bulgars ordered their troops to return from Yugo-Slavia & Greece and asked for Armistice 29th? The only opposition in Bulgaria & Romania now is German. Rheims comes into the news again after 30 yrs. rest. German General in broadcast said it took only 4 mths to lose as much territory as it had taken 4 yrs to obtain.  Propaganda & diplomacy has played a major part in the downfall of the Axis just as Stephen King-Hall said it would if employed correctly.

    With Steve pm.

    We had sliced tongue for pm meal & stew with plenty of fat in it.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-05-21 20:56
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 2 Sep 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor with anti-ship mines and deny the use of the harbor to the Japanese.

    RESULTS: Three B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the approaches to Victoria Harbor.  American intelligence now believes the port is completely blocked by mines dropped during this mission and the mission flown on August 29.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:38 to 9:41 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-24s from the 373rd Bomb Squadron (308th Heavy Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 12 x anti-ship mines

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

    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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