26 Oct 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

OBJECTIVE: Bomb the North Point power station

TIME OVER TARGET: ~Midnight (American military documents, BAAG reports, and eyewitness accounts disagree on the time of the raid, which is said to occur somewhere between 23:00 on Oct. 25 and 01:30 on Oct. 26.)

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 500-pound bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs

RESULTS: No damage to power station, despite American claims to the contrary.  Some civilian casualties in residential areas near the plant.

AMERICAN SQUADRONS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25s from 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group, China Air Task Force)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

• B-25 #75: Major William E. Bayse, 1^st Lt. Daniel E. Braswell, 1^st Lt. Clayton J. Campbell, 2^nd Lt. George A. Stout, Staff Sgt. Douglas V. Radney, Sgt. Robert T. Schafer
• B-25 #12: 1^st Lt. Allen P. Forsyth, 2^nd Lt. Albert G. Biggs, 1^st Lt. Horace E. Crouch, Sgt. William H. Williams, Sgt. Roland Palagi
• B-25 #20: Capt. Everett W. Holstrom, 2^nd Lt. Lloyd J. Murphy, 2^nd Lt. Charles J. Clarino, 2^nd Lt. Robert E. Davis, Tech. Sgt. Adam R. Williams, Staff Sgt. Dail Ogen 
• B-25 #74: 1^st Lt. Lucian N. Youngblood, 2^nd Lt. James C. Routt, 2^nd Lt. Charles J. Bethea, 2^nd Lt. Guy P. Baird, Corporal Norman Parker, Corporal James M. Ayers
• B-25 #66: 1^st Lt. Richard A. Knoblock, 1^st Lt. Donald L. Thompson, 2^nd Lt. Arvis R. Kirkland, Staff Sgt. Aden E. Jones, [no rank given] Arthur E. Dewalt, Private first class Kenneth C. Prothe
• B-24 #43: 1^st Lt. Robert B. Kleman, 2^nd Lt. Cleve L. Bingham, 1^st Lt. Alson E. Peck, Sgt. Edward M. Cooning, Staff Sgt. Charles H. Patton, Pvt. Raymond E. Sousa

JAPANESE SQUADRONS AND AIRCRAFT: 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).