70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
21 Sep 1944, The Hongkong News
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-02-15 22:0921 Sep 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2014-01-05 18:43Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 21 Sep 1944Death of Winifred Eveleyn Dabelstein, age 39.
Dabelstein gravestone, by brianwindsoredgarSource:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188
Note:
There was a Lionel Arthur Dabelstein in the HKVDC.
21 Sep 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2014-07-26 15:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 21 Sep 1944Death - Mrs Winifred Evelyn Dabelstein (39) (TB) (at T.B. Sanatorium)
Issue of one more Canadian parcel
p.m. meal - fried white bait, sprats and red mullet
21 Sep 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-09-13 21:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 21 Sep 1944NE Squalls, cool.
Chopped wood.
Thiamin.
3rd parcel issued. A few smokes would round off our degree of pleasure & satisfaction.
Eindhoven & Bologne captured. Russians & Bulgarians cut down into Salonica.
With Steve pm.
Shik yin & pui cho ker ho. [Cantonese? Sik Yin & Bui Cha Gei Ho? A cigarette & cup tea very fine? (my guess!)]
21 Sep 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 2019-05-30 20:00Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 21 Sep 1944OBJECTIVE: Block approaches to Victoria Harbor and Pearl River with anti-ship mines and deny the use of the harbor and river to the Japanese.
RESULTS: Two B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the approaches to Victoria Harbor and the Pearl River, while a third B-24 is unable to find the target zone and returns its mines to base.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-24s from the 308th Heavy Bomb Group
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 9 x anti-ship mines
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None, though one B-24 flying at 1,000 feet over Hong Kong or the Pearl River nearly runs into a mountain.
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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