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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.

  • 26 Nov 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-10-26 18:32
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Fri, 26 Nov 1943

    Fine, cold.

    Aerial activity increased somewhat today.

    Zindel very pessimistic ie, no money, biscuits or beans & soya milk will cease in 2 weeks time.

    Ground beans for Eve, mended shoes for Betty ((Is this the same person as "Betty G" mentioned on Aug 25th?)).

    Choir practice 5.30 pm St. Steph’s kitchen, saw Steve after.

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  • 26 Nov 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-12-05 16:14
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 26 Nov 1943

    "Belinda" by A.A. Milne ((for cast list see 25th))

  • 26 Nov 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Sun, 2019-02-10 22:56
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 26 Nov 1943

    OBJECTIVE: Sea sweep over South China Sea

    TIME OVER TARGET: Twelve noon

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

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

    • B-25 #38: 1st Lt. Edgar N. Gentry; 1st Lt. William M. Henry; 2nd Lt. Ralph Kamhi; Sgt. Robert L. Lantz
    • B-25 #88: 1st Lt. Dow J. Richter; 2nd Lt. Thomas H. Anderson; 2nd Lt. Charles A. Lutton; Staff Sgt. Frederick T. Kavaney

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 8 x 500-pound bombs

    RESULTS: The B-25s bomb and strafe a 200-foot armed freighter at the mouth of the Pearl River Delta.  The ship is mostly likely the auxiliary minesweeper Genchi Maru (525 GRT).  The vessel is on fire and sinking when the B-25s depart the scene.  Crewmen who abandon ship are strafed by gunners aboard the B-25s.

    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.
    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War Two: A Graphic Presentation of the Japanese Naval Organization and List of Combatant and Non-Combatant Vessels Lost or Damaged in the War from the Military History Section of the General Headquarters of the U.S. Far East Command in 1952.

    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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