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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.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-19 09:29
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 6 Jun 1944

    Fine, hot, cloudy.

    Rigged mosquito net.

    Ground rice for bread.

    Allies pushed Goering’s Div. back. Our forces 5 klms east of Rome  (4th) Air-raid alarm of yesterday coincides with US raid on Kwongchauwan. Jap paper really very heartening although that is not their intention.

    Choir practice 5-6pm. Steve at practice till 7.45pm.

    Lovely moonlight night. I hope we are together again pal by or before next June’s full moon light.

    Several internees went to Q.M. for X-ray. ((Probably Queen Mary Hospital))

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  • 06 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-05-30 15:26
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 6 Jun 1944

    B.O.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-04-30 21:03
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 6 Jun 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Block Pearl River channels with anti-ship mines

    RESULTS: B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

    TIME OVER TARGET: 9:40 to 10:50 p.m.

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

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Three of the four B-24s drop twelve Mark 13 anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

    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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