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

OBJECTIVE: Attack shipping in Victoria Harbor

TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:50 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-25s from the 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

• B-25 #36: 1^st Lt. George T. Grottle; 1^st Lt. William A. Brenner; 1^st Lt. Raymond J. Mazanowski; Staff Sgt. Golden U. Gallup
• B-25 #92: 1^st Lt. Harold K. Searle; 2^nd Lt. John O. Sandbach; 1^st Lt. Howard V. Seaborn; Sgt. Robert W. Richardson

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 10 x 500-pound bombs

RESULTS: The B-25s score multiple hits and near misses on a 520-foot freighter, causing it to catch fire and sink in shallow water.

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).