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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.

  • 9 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-09 16:18
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 9 Aug 1944

    Olive in hospital with tonsilo-pharyngitis.

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  • 9 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-06-06 12:20
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Wed, 9 Aug 1944

    Hot day, light airs.

    Firewood 3 days late.  

    A. Block’s Kitchen Supervisor to resign.

    No lorry & no paper again.

    Hodge, Floyd July 42 & Stuart Dec 41 for services rendered during the war saw Norman re promotion which will cause a stir among the senior members of the Staff.

    With Steve pm.

  • 09 Aug 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

    Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 2019-05-09 20:51
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    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Wed, 9 Aug 1944

    OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor and Pearl River with anti-ship mines

    RESULTS: B-24s drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor (East Lamma Channel, Rambler Channel, and near Green Island) and into the Pearl River.

    TIME OVER TARGET: 10:25 to 11:55 p.m.

    AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Nine B-24s from the 373rd, 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308th Heavy Bomb Group)

    AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

    • B-24 #822: 2nd Lt. E.P. Mitchell; 2nd Lt. F.C. Steiger; 2nd Lt. F.B. Massing; Flight Officer H.J. Lundberg; Staff Sgt. L.W. Habel; Staff Sgt. R. Hunter, Jr.; Corporal L.C. Hedlund; Sgt. R.N. Kuhns; Sgt. B.E. LaBlanc

    ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 36 x Mark-13 anti-ship mines

    JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

    AIRCRAFT LOSSES:

    • One B-24 (#822) is lost to unknown causes and its crew (listed above) is declared missing in action.
    • One B-24 (#833) is hit by three heavy-machine gun rounds, causing damage to #3 and #4 engines.

    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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