Carrier-based planes strike Hong Kong, one of the most important Japanese held seaports in China. The business section of Victoria is bombed. Photographed by a plane from USS Hancock (CV 19), 16 January 1945. (5/22/2014). <Read more ...>
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Carrier-based planes strike Hong Kong, one of the most important Japanese held seaports in China. Enemy shipping found in harbor is blasted. Photographed by a plane from USS Hancock (CV 19), 16 January 1945. (5/22/2014). <Read more ...>
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Carrier-based planes strike Hong Kong, one of the most important Japanese held seaports in China. Taikoo Shipyard is ablaze. Photographed by a plane from USS Hancock (CV 19), 16 January 1945. (5/22/2014). <Read more ...>
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Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
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