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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.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-06-02 13:15
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 7 Jul 1944

    Fine, hot.

    Brick work & wood chopping.  

    Kovel evacuated by Germans.  Advances made by us in France & Italy, Finnland & Russia. Saipan Island surrendered 30th June. Described in Chinese paper as “Peace Overtures”. Japs trying to softsoap Chungking now that things are going against them. Burma, Bonins & Saipan not mentioned today.

    Firewood rationing cancelled in town. Something else the Japs couldn’t control blast’em.

    With Steve pm. He told me of the yarn going the rounds re Christine being my baby. Something must be done about it. 

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  • 7 Jul 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-06-24 20:58
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 7 Jul 1944

    B.O.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 2019-05-07 21:07
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 7 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Staggered single-aircraft night raids to harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions

    RESULTS: B-25s bomb Tien Ho and White Cloud airbases.  Damaged is unknown, but bombs ignite a large fire in godowns near Tien Ho.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:24 to 11:00 p.m.

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

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Main; Lt. Biswell; Lt Ley; Lt. Strom

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: One aircraft with 4 x 500-pound incendiary clusters; two aircraft with 24 x 100-pound fragmentation bombs; one aircraft with 6 x 500-pound general-purpose 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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