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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.

  • 8 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-23 21:42
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 8 May 1942

    Cookhouse all day.

    Finer.

    Italian negotiations still going on & some warships of theirs surrendered at Alexandria.

    Three German towns wiped out & three Jap towns bombed. Japs protest to Russians re allowing USA to use Vladivostock as airbase, Russians reply “Come & stop them”.

    Jap games (?) in Burma cost them severe losses in men etc.

    20,000 French come over to British in Madagascar.

    B.E.F. hold a line in France. Vichy French attack their rear.

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  • 08 May 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Grace on Wed, 2015-04-29 11:30
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 8 May 1942

    New meal times - NOON & 6 p.m. Sundays 11 a.m.& 6 p.m. 

    Sandbach addressed Blocks in compound 


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