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.
23 Apr 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-04-12 22:04Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 23 Apr 1943Cookhouse.
Fish.
Fine day. Pantellers [?] captured & Tunisian campaign almost over. ((A mix of fact and rumour. The Tunisian campaign was coming to end, and the Axis troops there would surrender in early May. However the attack on Pantelleria, an island off Sicily, wouldn't happen until June.))
((G.))
23 Apr 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-04-19 14:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 23 Apr 1943GOOD FRIDAY 3 hour service (Short)
Masefield's "Good Friday"
