15 Oct 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
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OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton and Hong Kong
RESULTS: Numerous reconnaissance photos taken of Tien Ho airbase in Canton and Kai Tak airbase and Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. Pilot observes thirteen large ships in Victoria Harbor.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~12:15 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-5B (#262) from Flight B, 21st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Stevenson
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
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).
