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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 Sep 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-09-04 18:22
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 8 Sep 1944

    Lovely clear night, moon up at Midnt.

    Plane over about 4am & dropped bombs over Taipo way again.

    Japs at HQs seem to take raids as a matter of form now, no panicky yelling etc as was usual previously.

    Bulgaria requests armistice of Russia, Soviets approaching Y-Slav border & East Prussia N of Warsaw. Allies hold line Louvain to Sedan. Allies N of Antwerp & up to Dijon & attack towards  W. Italian frontier.

    2 pkts cigs issued.

    Cut grass, chopped wood, & started on Rita’s door jamb. ((Not sure who Rita is.))

    Saw Steve pm.

    Fried liver for pm meal, very good.

    Water problem becoming difficult again.

    Sat on roof till after midnight.

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

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 2019-05-24 21:06
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 8 Sep 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Staggered single-aircraft night raids to bomb targets in Canton area

    RESULTS: Two B-25s drop incendiary bombs on the Chungshan University area, causing fires and secondary explosions.  One B-25 bombs Tien Ho airbase and two more bomb nearby godowns.  One B-25 bombs White Cloud airbase.

    TIME OVER TARGET: ~11:33 p.m. on September 08 to 12:58 a.m. on September 09

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25s from the 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain Hunt

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 44 x 100-pound bombs; 16 x 250-pound bombs; 8 x 500-pound incendiary 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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