11 Jan 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor
RESULTS: B-24s successfully drop mines into shipping channels of Victoria Harbor. Reconnaissance mission flown three days later photographs a 325-foot ship sinking in the channel where the mines are laid.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-24s from the 373rd Bomb Squadron (308th Heavy Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Seven anti-ship mines of unknown type
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).
