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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.

  • 5 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 17:11
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 5 Dec 1942

    Dreadfully cold.

    Concert in evening - best I've seen here.  Compered by Danny Wilson.   Barton girls and others in colourful Spanish dance, and 4 girls in white, blue-bodiced dresses.  H. Mundy gave a good 'Albert' poem ((a Stanley Holloway piece)), and 'Hong Kong' - words by Alec Kidd ((probably the 'Alexander Kidd' on the Stanley list, I didn't know him at all)). V Garton was good.

    Mary (Taylor) came to tea, I took remains of the ground rice pudding to Rosaleen in hospital, she isn't looking well.

    Rumours are that Turkey has entered war, and Hong Kong has been declared a free city; and we will be searched.

    Had first of vitamin caramels today - taste fishy.  ((Caramels by Red Cross, and distributed to us one at a time.))

    Yvonne ((Blackmore, aged 15)) returned story, verdict: 'this story held my interest all the time, I was always loathe to put it down.'

    Lent Miss Whale (who was a governess to Pamela Stanley, grand-daughter of Melba in Australia) my story.

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  • 5 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-12-01 14:32
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 5 Dec 1942

    Cold.

    Turkey in the war?

    ((G.))

  • 05 Dec 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-08 13:20
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 5 Dec 1942

    Concert at S.S.

  • 05 Dec 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 2017-07-14 10:20
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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    Sat, 5 Dec 1942

    OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton and Hong Kong

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:30 a.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-4 (photographic reconnaissance version of P-38 Lightning) from Flight A of the 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (attached to China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Dale L. Swartz

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

    RESULTS: Unknown

    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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