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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 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-02-22 19:23
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 6 Aug 1942

    Tiger marks opposite hospital path!

    This morning a large gray ship came rushing across the sea, and a launch followed it, tooting loudly and continuously.

    Mabel and I and Mrs K went swimming in morning.  The ginger we got in the parcel is absolutely delicious.

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  • 6 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-07-04 22:15
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 6 Aug 1942

    Some shipping arrived today (Are they being allowed to enter but not to leave?)

    Fine.

    Kein neues. (('No news'. Jones has been studying German, and starts writing diary entries in German. We'll use Google Translate to try and make sense of them.))

  • 6 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-07-20 19:43
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    Ella Buuck's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 6 Aug 1942

    This evening we saw a good movie about a pastor’s family in Iowa.

  • 6 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Richard Iwan Jones on Thu, 2014-07-17 15:07
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 6 Aug 1942

    Tiger footprints on pathway to hospital  

  • 06 Aug 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2017-07-08 22:54
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 6 Aug 1942

    OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield at Canton

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~5:15 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-25C from 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) and 7 P-40E from the 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group).  All aircraft are from the China Air Task Force (10th Air Force).

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major William E. Bayse (B-25s); Major Edward F. Rector

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Chinese 50-kg incendiary bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs, plus Russian 100-kg general-purpose bombs

    RESULTS: Americans claim ten Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground and severe damage to runways

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: No Japanese fighters attempt to engage the American aircraft

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

    SOURCES: Original 11th Bomb Squadron mission report in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.  I do not, however, have the mission report for the P-40s.

    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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