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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.

  • 28 Jul 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-06-05 10:26
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Fri, 28 Jul 1944

    A beautiful day. The bad weather seems to have exhausted itself.

    Coal issued in lieu of firewood.

    H.Qs and godown preparing for change of administration.

    Ground bread rice.

    Jap paper hard put to cover our advances on all fronts. Goebbels makes a stupid speech describing the attempt on Hitler’s life and avers therein that Hitler is still alive. Why should he have to make a long speech to that effect if Hitler himself could have spoken or shown himself. Consensus is, He is either dead or so seriously injured that Goebbels had to act for him.  The whole affair shows that rot has set in at the head of the German Army.

    New Ad. to take over 31st.inst. i/c Col. Takanada, Mr. Hakimura [?] will act a  laison [sic] officer between him & Hattori in the F.A. office.

    Raid by 1 plane about 2.30am.

    With Steve pm.

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  • 28 Jul 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2016-07-03 12:48
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 28 Jul 1944

    Camp Commandant – Col. Takanada

    Jap. Military Officer to be stationed at Stanley in place of Mr Maejima

    Mr. Makimara, of Jap. Consular Service, to be Liaison Officer between Jap. Military authorities and Foreign Affairs Department. - “Full ration for children over 6; and under 6 receive 300 grammes of rice” As from 1.8.44

  • 28 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Mon, 2019-05-13 20:46
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 28 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Single-aircraft night raid to harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions

    RESULTS: Bombs are dropped on Tien Ho, White Cloud, and White Cloud satellite fields, but damage is unknown.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:53 to 9:15 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One B-25J from 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Denning M. Perdew; 2nd Lt. Raymond S. Horey; 1st Lt. Thomas B. Cox; 2nd Lt. Elmo B. Hessler; Staff Sgt. Paul A. LeFrancois; Staff Sgt. Steven Simon; Sgt. William C. Whaley

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 12 x 100-pound bombs; 4 x packages of JM-3 propaganda leaflets

    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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