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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 Jul 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-09 15:49
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 8 Jul 1944

    G. B. Foster died (typhus)

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-06-02 13:17
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 8 Jul 1944

    Hot, windy & cloudy.

    Foster died 11am.

    Canteen gear arrived at last.

    Russians advance in Finnland & Poland. Advance made by us in Italy. German CinC. relieved in Normandy (due to ill health?) More raids on Bonin & Guam. US raided Canton last night 9pm. Japs holding brass barter in town which proves how poorly they are off in Japan for that and other metals too no doubt. 

    Attended Foster’s funeral. With Steve after.

    Getting squally pm.

    Surprise roll-call 11pm.

    US Officers from Saipan described fighting as extremely bloody & inferred that Japs put up strong and brave resistance. 10,000 US casualties.

  • 8 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: 
    Sat, 8 Jul 1944

    Death – G.B. Foster (48), Prin. Officer,Prison Dept. (typhus)

    Ballet music (Drown, Heasman, Talbot)

    B.O.

  • 08 Jul 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2016-08-01 18:19
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 8 Jul 1944

    Death of prison officer George Bertram Foster from typhus at the age of 48.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 2019-05-08 22:00
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 8 Jul 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Bomb military targets in Canton

    RESULTS: Eleven aircraft bomb the primary target, military facilities near Chungshan University.  Six aircraft are unable to locate the primary target.  Four of these planes bomb White Cloud airbase, and two bomb Tien Ho airbase.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:00 to 10:55 p.m. depending on the squadron

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Seventeen B-24J from 373rd, 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadron (308th Heavy Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

    • B-24J #422: 1st Lt. R.P. Aldridge; 2nd Lt. S.E. Whitman; 2nd Lt. L.M. Jacobson; 2nd Lt. M. Shapiro; Staff Sgt. A.S. Boreson; Staff Sgt. R.L. Shane; Sgt. B.A. Pentasia [spelling?]; Sgt. J. Macarelli

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 90 x 100-pound incendiary bombs; 400 x 100-pound bombs; 48 x 250-pound bombs

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES: B-24J #422 crashes near Kunming for unspecified causes, but all crewmembers safely bail out.

    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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