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 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-09-13 21:39

Book / Document:
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date(s) of events described:
Fri, 22 Sep 1944
Hot, light breeze.
Thiamin.
Chopped wood.
4oz oil, 1.06oz Sugar, 1oz Tea & 1oz Curry Pwdr. issued.
Chopped up more wood for Rita.
Hitler takes over Supreme Command. Nancy captured 19th.
With Steve pm. Nice shower after.
Paper again tells us electric power & tobacco supply to be resumed.
Air-raid alarm 9.50pm. Plane around about 10 but nothing happened. All-clear 10.45pm.
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22 Sep 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 2019-05-30 20:01

Book / Document:
WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Date(s) of events described:
Fri, 22 Sep 1944
OBJECTIVE: 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: Four B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the approaches to Victoria Harbor and the Pearl River.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-24s from the 308^th Heavy Bomb Group

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 22 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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air raids
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