05 Aug 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance of Canton area
TIME OVER TARGET: ~Noon
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40 fighters from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain Arthur W. Cruikshank; Lt. Jarmon
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Pilots report there are no aircraft visible at the Canton airfields and that there is very little river traffic.
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).
