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.
08 Apr 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-04-03 11:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 8 Apr 1945Overcast, NE wind.
Quiet day, nothing doing.
Workers’ cigs issued.
Black-market about at an end, no stuff coming in.
Lorry with veg. 6pm.
Planes over & some explosions heard 11pm.
08 Apr 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2016-03-30 18:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 8 Apr 1945Wittenbach / Ponting
08 Apr 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2016-06-20 14:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 8 Apr 1945Had very bad night, eye sore and discharging a lot.
Worked in am but couldn't do much because of sight.
Benediction, then visited the de Vleeschouwers, Doreen, and Aileen Thirlwell.
Spoke to Rev Sandbach re clubs.
Pasty.
