07 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Staggered single-aircraft night raids to harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions
RESULTS: B-25s bomb Tien Ho and White Cloud airbases. Damaged is unknown, but bombs ignite a large fire in godowns near Tien Ho.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:24 to 11:00 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-25J from 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Main; Lt. Biswell; Lt Ley; Lt. Strom
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: One aircraft with 4 x 500-pound incendiary clusters; two aircraft with 24 x 100-pound fragmentation bombs; one aircraft with 6 x 500-pound general-purpose bombs
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).
