12 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton airfields
RESULTS: No aircraft are observed on the ground at Tien Ho and White Cloud airbases
TIME OVER TARGET: ~5:25 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-51s from 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Charles E. Griffith; Lt. Reeves
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Eight Ki-44 that likely belong to the 85th Sentai attempt to intercept the P-51s without success.
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).
