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06 Sep 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

Date(s) of events described: 
Wed, 6 Sep 1944

OBJECTIVE: Staggered single-aircraft night raids to bomb targets in Canton area

RESULTS: Ten B-25s bomb town of Samshui.  Damage is unknown, but the bombing ignites two large fires.  One B-25 drops bombs on Canton in vicinity of Wongsha railroad station.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:05 p.m. on September 06 to 1:25 a.m. on September 07

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eleven B-25s from the 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Sussdorf

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 44 x 100-pound bombs; 40 x 250-pound bombs; 12 x 500-pound incendiary 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).

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