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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.

  • 22 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-02-27 12:46
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 22 Sep 1942

    Notice says International Red Cross are sponsoring a moving picture to be taken of life in the camp.

    It was said that some planes which came over today (I'd heard them) made a 'V' formation, and that they exhaust-piped a 'V' in the sky, and that they dropped pamphlets.  ((I hadn't seen any))

    Spent rest of our money on tomato ketchup and sugar.  I got rubber sandals from Welfare.

    Mabel snowed under with re-knitting (unravelled) baby clothes ((for new camp babies.))

    Lecture on 'Africa' by Dr McLeod  ((whose little boy had been 'blown-up'))

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  • 22 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-08-30 22:19
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 22 Sep 1942

    9 planes flew over during the afternoon E to W & a string of floaters was released was release (sic) from one of them that formed the letter “V”.

    Drs making out petition re repatriation.

    News received very good if true. Solomon Isles back in our hands. New Guinea almost relieved of Japs. San Francisco tells us that war in Far East will be finished in 80 days. (8th Dec). Berlin in flames. Bremen smashed up, Rommel can get no more supplies. Battle for Stalingrad very severe & the Germans, although entering the City sometimes, are promptly driven out again. Japs gradually withdrawing to China Coast consolidating their lines.

  • 22 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 22:50
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 22 Sep 1942

    Dr. Macleod "African Memories"

    (X) Medical repatriation list for signatures.

  • 22 Sep 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2017-07-01 10:31
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 22 Sep 1942

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:00 p.m.

    OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance over Hong Kong and Canton

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One P-43A Lancer on loan to the 23rd Fighter Group from the Chinese Air Force

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Bruce K. Holloway

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    RESULTS: Aerial photographs taken during mission show many small vessels and one large vessel in Victoria Harbor, plus two large vessels under repair at the HK & Whampoa dockyard

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

    SOURCES: Original mission report 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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