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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.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-09-05 15:28
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 20 Sep 1944

    Squally NE cool.

    4 Cigs = 1 Tin Corned beef. Took a couple down to Steve & Mary.

    Workers oil & sugar issued.

    Progress being made on Pililion Angaur & Morotai Islands & the Japs admit that it is all in preparation for big scale landings in the Philippines. Allies now through Siegfried Line & 20 mls from Cologne. Paratroops landed in Holland reinforced.

    Electric supply to be resumed shortly , so say the Japs.

    With Steve pm.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-05-28 20:47
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 20 Sep 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Fly a fighter sweep over the Canton airbases and try to ambush the Japanese fighter pilots who have been patrolling the airspace over Samshui.

    RESULTS: No Japanese aircraft are encountered and the fighter sweep is uneventful.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:15 a.m.

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

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Wilson; Lt. Trecartin; Lt. Shull; Lt. Shaeffer; Lt. Perkins; Lt. Anderson; Lt. E.E. Smith; Lt. Newsome (76th FS); Major Treacy (23rd FG); Lt. Bannon; Lt. Tolhurst (93rd FS)

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    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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