70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
27 Aug 1943, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-03-19 17:48Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 27 Aug 1943F.P. Lenfestey died on his 57th birthday,
27 Aug 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-08-05 04:55Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 27 Aug 194327 Aug 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-08-18 21:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 27 Aug 1943Death of Frederick Percival Lenfesty.
Before internment he was held in room 414 of the Nam Ping Hotel.
Mr Lenfestry had a Channel Islands background.
Sources:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHANNEL-ISLANDS/2000-06/0960763900
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367491
27 Aug 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-08-19 11:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 27 Aug 1943Quiz concert (Drown, Gray, Clarke, Nina Valentine, S. Mackinlay, Luke, Mrs. Richards, Medley, ((unclear)), Woods, Miles, Wilson, Charter, Mrs. Charter, Dr. Mullitt, )
Death of Frederick Percival Lenfestey.
No B. O.
27 Aug 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 2017-09-28 19:51Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 27 Aug 1943OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep and reconnaissance flight over Canton
TIME OVER TARGET: ~11:30 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three P-40Ks from 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. William B. Hawkins; 1st Lt. Samuel P.M. Kinsey; 1st Lt. Richard Mauritson
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Pilots report there is very little air activity and river traffic in Canton area
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission report 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).
