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16 Nov 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

Date(s) of events described: 
Tue, 16 Nov 1943

OBJECTIVE: Take reconnaissance photographs of Kowloon

TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:15 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-4 or F-5 (photo-recon version of the P-38)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: Recon photos of Kowloon show no evidence of damage from the B-24 raid the previous evening (Nov. 15).  Numerous ships are at the HK & Whampoa dockyard.

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: 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).

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