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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.

  • 24 Sep 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2014-07-26 15:39
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 24 Sep 1944

    Myhill / Sandbach

    ELECTRICITY resumed 7.30pm to 9 only

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

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-09-13 21:49
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 24 Sep 1944

    Planes over early am but no bombing or opposition except searchlights that were switched on much too late.

    Cut grass.

    Few words am re unnecessary noise.

    Sky overcast 3pm. NE wind.

    Tried “Kam” meat loaf, most excellent.

    Lorry & provisions 6.30pm.

    Germany capitulated 22nd? No more papers to be sent in (rumour)

    With Steve pm.

    Lights on 7.30 to 9.30 pm first time since 19th Aug.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 2019-05-31 19:43
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 24 Sep 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Fly a series of staggered single-aircraft night raids to harass airbases at Canton and prevent JAAF pilots from flying night bombing missions against American airbases in China.

    RESULTS: Two B-25s bomb Tien Ho airbase and one B-25 bombs White Cloud airbase.  Damage is unknown, but the bombing ignites a large fire at White Cloud airbase.  A fourth B-25 is unable to locate its target and returns to base with its bombs still in the bomb bay.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:13 to 17:38 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-25s from the 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Main; Lt. Hexberg; Lt. Bridges

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 6 x 1,000-pound bombs; 12 x 100-pound fragmentation bombs; 500 copies of Japanese-language news leaflet

    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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