05 Dec 1942, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:30 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-4 (photographic reconnaissance version of P-38 Lightning) from Flight A of the 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (attached to China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Dale L. Swartz
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Unknown
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).
