13 Jul 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep over Canton airfields

RESULTS: Pilots spot Japanese bombers over White Cloud airbase, but are unable to close within firing range

TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:30 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six P-51s from 76^th Fighter Squadron (23^rd Fighter Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1^st Lt. Elmore P. Bullock; Flight Officer P.J. Smith (76^th FS); Lt. Coakley; Lt. Phillips; Lt. Barr (26^th FS); Lt. Kutsher (118^th TRS).  Pilots are from three different squadrons, but it is not clear if the aircraft are.

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: An estimated thirty bombers from an unknown unit

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).