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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.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-06-02 13:04
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 4 Jul 1944

    Heavy showers all day, brightened 5pm.

    Brick work & ground rice.

    Some significance being attached to cartoons & wine adverts that have appeared in the paper recently. Meanings bearing on the war can be read into them.

    No lorry today.

    Mrs Flaherty caught trading with Formosan guard. Japs arrested her.  

    Much rumour re Kowloon being turned over to Wang Ching Wei Gov’t. 

    With Steve pm. He has slight fever.

    Japs rang bell 10 mins before time 7.50pm & it seems a deliberate attempt to be nasty.  A crowd of about 50 were taken up to H.Qs where they were told that although they were on their way to their different rooms  they could not have reached them by 8pm & therefore were transgressing because they did not allow sufficient time to leave where-ever they where [sic] to get back to their own quarters by 8pm.

    The Japs are wrong because any part of the Camp can be reached in less than 10 mins from the place the 50 were collected, the Canteen gate. It takes only 25 mins to go around the whole Camp perimeter.

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  • 4 Jul 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-06-24 20:46
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 4 Jul 1944

    B.O.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Mon, 2019-05-06 20:08
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 4 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions

    RESULTS: At staggered intervals, two B-25s bomb White Cloud airbase and three B-25s bomb Tien Ho airbase.  Damage to target is unknown.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:34 to 11:39 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Five B-25s from 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Sixty 100-pound fragmentation bombs

    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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    air raids

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