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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.

  • 30 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-05-21 16:04
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 30 Jun 1944

    No canteen due to lack of goods.

    Lovely day.

    Started  demolishing a wall in order to procure bricks to build a hot water boiler with.

    Allies advancing on all fronts. Nil re Saipan. Japs praising up their own war in China & Burma. 6 Chinese executed this afternoon.

    I’ve run out of everything again damn it.

    With Steve pm.

    (HK to be relieved in 2 weeks? (camp rumour))

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  • 30 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-06-24 20:44
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 30 Jun 1944

    B.O.

  • 30 Jun 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-07-02 18:36
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    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 30 Jun 1944

    ((Following text not dated:))

    End of month Pastor Neilsen calls to say Mrs Smith died. Muriel went violent. To funeral. Pathetic few. Three funerals in week from French Hospital. Deaths due in part to malnutrition. To become ill is frightening.

  • 30 Jun 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 2019-05-01 21:45
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 30 Jun 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor with anti-ship mines

    RESULTS: Five B-24s drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor (Lei Yue Mun, Sulphur, Rambler, and Kellett channels); a sixth B-24 drops mines into the Pearl River.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:10 to 11:42 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-24Js from the 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308th Heavy Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Twenty Mark 13 and Mark 13-5 anti-ship mines

    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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