AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25 medium bombers from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) and ten P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
OBJECTIVE: Bomb shipping and dockyards in Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~2:45 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eighteen B-24s from all four squadrons of the 308th Heavy Bomb Group. Fighter escorts include twelve P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron and three P-38s from the newly arrived 449th Fighter Squadron. Both fighter squadrons are part of the 23rd Fighter Group.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) escorted by nine P-40K and P-40Ms from the 74th FS (23rd Fighter Group). All aircraft belong to the 14th Air Force.
OBJECTIVE: Bomb a Japanese freighter reported to be at anchor near Stonecutters Island
TIME OVER TARGET: ~3:15 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) and ten P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group). Possibly pilots and aircraft from the 16th Fighter Squadron are involved as well. All aircraft are based at Kweilin and belong to the 14th Air Force. <Read more ...>
OBJECTIVE: Bomb shipping at Whampoa docks in Canton. This is the first raid in a sustained anti-shipping campaign by the 14th Air Force that begins in July 1943.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:15 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Seven B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) and twenty-two P-40s from the 23rd Fighter Group
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: P-40s: Lt. Col. Clinton D. Vincent; Lt. Col. Samuel “Tex” Knowles
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Forty-two 500-pound demolition bombs (B-25s) <Read more ...>
OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield in Canton. This is the first raid on a target in the Pearl River delta by the China-based 14th Air Force, the successor unit to the China Air Task Force (a unit of the India-based 10th Air Force). This is also the first raid on a Pearl River delta target by the 308th Heavy Bomb Group, and only the unit’s second combat mission.
OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:30 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-4 (photographic reconnaissance version of P-38 Lightning) from Flight A of the 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (attached to China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)
