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

OBJECTIVE: Single-aircraft night raid to harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions

RESULTS: Bombs are dropped on Tien Ho, White Cloud, and White Cloud satellite fields, but damage is unknown.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:53 to 9:15 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One B-25J from 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1^st Lt. Denning M. Perdew; 2^nd Lt. Raymond S. Horey; 1^st Lt. Thomas B. Cox; 2^nd Lt. Elmo B. Hessler; Staff Sgt. Paul A. LeFrancois; Staff Sgt. Steven Simon; Sgt. William C. Whaley

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 12 x 100-pound bombs; 4 x packages of JM-3 propaganda leaflets

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).