70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
28 Sep - 6 Oct 1944, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 18:00Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 Sep 1944 to Fri, 6 Oct 1944
Notes:
28/9/44 - 2 Small Moon Cakes 8.00
3/10/44 - Drew 50¢ ((Catties)) Rice from Lim
4/10/44 - To Amy deSust
3¢ Bananas 10.20
1¢ Slab Sugar 10.40
5/10/44 - 4 Moon cakes 11.20
6/10/44 - Senn Cheong ((?)) sold 2 of Amy's sheets ((?)) for ¥500. ¥250.00 to Griselda
- ((Total)) 143.20 5¢ ((Catties)) Slab Sugar for Amy ¥60-00 excludedSupporting information:
28 Sep 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2014-07-26 15:41Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 Sep 19442.30pm "Call It a Day" by Dodie Smith (p. by W.H.E. Colledge - Nina Valentine, Richard Mills, Norah Witchall, Eric Kennard, Kathleen Davis, Kristine Thoresen, Evelyn Wyllie, Eve Grey, John Stericker, Joan Challinor, Jim Moodie, M.M. Mather, Anneka Offenburg, Ray Mabb, Stella Bander) (Ian Heath at the piano.)
Workers cigs issued
28 Sep 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-09-13 21:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 Sep 1944Hot. S wind.
Wheelbarrow.
Chopped wood.
Lorry arrived 5pm with Canteen gear. No cigs.
Workers cigs issued.
With Steve pm.
Air-raid alarm 8.50. All clear 9.30pm.
28 Sep 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Sun, 2019-06-02 00:20Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 Sep 1944OBJECTIVE: 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: One B-25 bombs Tien Ho airbase and one B-25 bombs White Cloud airbase. Damage is unknown.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:00 to 7:55 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-25s from the 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Shields; Lt. Patterson
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 16 x ANM-57 250-pound bombs and 500 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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