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22 Sep 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

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Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 2017-07-01 10:31
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WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Date(s) of events described: 
Tue, 22 Sep 1942

TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:00 p.m.

OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance over Hong Kong and Canton

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One P-43A Lancer on loan to the 23rd Fighter Group from the Chinese Air Force

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Bruce K. Holloway

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: Aerial photographs taken during mission show many small vessels and one large vessel in Victoria Harbor, plus two large vessels under repair at the HK & Whampoa dockyard

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

SOURCES: Original mission report 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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