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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.

  • 29 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-04-03 21:39
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 29 Apr 1944

    Overcast, drizzly.

    1Pkt.Cigs issued.

    No lorry.

    Holiday for Emp. of Jap. birthday.

    With Steve pm.

    M to concert.  

    (Food 10mins)

    Allied forces landed in Sumatra & Malaya?

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  • 29 Apr 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-04-15 15:09
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 29 Apr 1944

    ((Following text not dated:))

    Alert about 4 p.m. one day. High flyers but nothing happened. Reportedly man near Dockyard ran on signal and was shot. Must not run.

  • 29 Apr 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2015-12-05 19:19
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 29 Apr 1944

    The final draft of Prisoners of War leaves Hong Kong to labour in Japan. The Naura Maru sails with 220 men. They will arrive, after 15 days enduring cramped, filthy and noisome conditions in the hold, to be hosed down with icy water in spite of the cold weather.

    Source:

    Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, Kindle Edition, Location 2312 ff.

  • 29 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-04-25 10:33
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 29 Apr 1944

    Ballet “Temujin” ((for details see 26th))

  • 29 Apr 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-04-30 20:45
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 29 Apr 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep and reconnaissance mission over Canton

    RESULTS: No contact with enemy aircraft and poor visibility prevents observation of the Canton airfields

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~Noon

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Colonel Brightweiser; Major Barry Melloan; Lt. Thomas Aston; Lt. Duffy; 1st Lt. Kenneth Latourelle; Lt. Thomas P. Bennett; Lt. Robert Gibeault; Lt. Balyard

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    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).

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    air raids

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