05 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions
RESULTS: At staggered intervals, B-25s bomb White Cloud and Tien Ho airbases. Damage to target is unknown, but two large and three small fires are ignited by the bombing.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:45 to 9:42 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25s from 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Col. Clark; Captain Toney; Lt. Anderson; Lt. Cullen; Lt. Hexberg; Lt. Lesher
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Sixty 100-pound fragmentation bomb clusters; six 500-pound bombs
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: Minor damage to one B-25 from antiaircraft fire
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).
