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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.

  • 25 Sep 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2014-07-26 15:40
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 25 Sep 1944

    Newspaper (HK News) resumed

    Light music by Patty Mace

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

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-09-13 21:51
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 25 Sep 1944

    Humid, overcast. W wind.

    Filled up cracks in Stone’s room. ((Not sure which Stone he is referring to))

    Chopped wood.

    Salt fish, veg & papers arrived.

    Philipppines declare war on Anglo US 23rd. 500 planes bombed Manila. No E. news.

    With Steve pm.

  • 25 Sep 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-01-26 15:21
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 25 Sep 1944

    ((Following text not dated:))

    Towards end of month alerts almost nightly.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 2019-05-31 20:03
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 25 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: Captain Perdew is unable to locate White Cloud airbase due to cloud cover, but drops propaganda leaflets over Canton.  He then bombs the town of Wuchow, his designated alternate target.  Lt. Sloat is assigned to hit White Cloud airbase, but he blows a landing-gear tire and is unable to take off for the mission.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:00 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain Perdew; Lt. Sloat

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 1,500 propaganda leaflets are dropped on Canton and 8 x 100-kilogram bombs are dropped on Wuchow.

    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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