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Japanese prepartions for Hong Kong conflict

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2021-05-07 21:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

Morrison Hill Mystery-China Mail

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2021-01-16 20:32
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1957

Still a mystery?

Casualty of War-China Mail-05-07-1947

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2021-01-04 19:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1947

If a wartime casualty, I wonder if he was ever identified after laying there for six years in all types of weather?

Dangerous Days-China Mail

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2021-01-04 19:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1947

KWANTI & KAM TIN landing grounds-presumably based on BAAG reports-May 1943

Submitted by IDJ on Sun, 2020-10-04 18:13
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1943

Part of a report to London from British Air Attache, Chungking, presumably based on BAAG feedback

Extracted from a status review of all airfields in South China.

Young witnesses to war

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2020-09-14 23:44
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

China Mail-28-09-1945

THE ARLINGTON HOTEL-Hub of the universe!-China Mail-05-12-1945

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2020-09-12 18:12
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Survey of tunnels-China Mail-15-09-1945

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2020-08-28 16:21

HMS STRIKER being tied up at Holt's Wharf

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2020-03-30 18:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

At Holt's Wharf, Peninsula hotel in background

Its a pity that more of the ship is not visible

Kowloon Wharves exit gate-railway tracks in place-POWs exiting

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2020-03-27 22:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

This screen grab from an IWM film shows Japanese POWs being marched out of Kowloon Wharves gates.

Of interest on the ground are the railway tracks connecting the wharves with the KCR terminus.

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