29 Aug 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor with anti-ship mines
RESULTS: Six B-24s drop their mines, but only four release their mines accurately, and at least two mines are destroyed upon impact with the water when their parachutes malfunction. Two B-24s fail to locate the target and return their mines to base. The mission is judged less than 50 percent effective by the U.S. Navy.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:24 p.m. on August 29 to 12:41 a.m. on August 30
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight B-24s from the 373rd, 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308th Heavy Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 24 x anti-ship mines
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).
