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OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield at Canton

TIME OVER TARGET: ~5:15 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-25C from 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group) and 7 P-40E from the 76^th Fighter Squadron (23^rd Fighter Group).  All aircraft are from the China Air Task Force (10^th Air Force).

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major William E. Bayse (B-25s); Major Edward F. Rector

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Chinese 50-kg incendiary bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs, plus Russian 100-kg general-purpose bombs

RESULTS: Americans claim ten Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground and severe damage to runways

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: No Japanese fighters attempt to engage the American aircraft

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

SOURCES: Original 11^th Bomb Squadron mission report in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.  I do not, however, have the mission report for the P-40s.

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).

Tiger marks opposite hospital path!

This morning a large gray ship came rushing across the sea, and a launch followed it, tooting loudly and continuously.

Mabel and I and Mrs K went swimming in morning.  The ginger we got in the parcel is absolutely delicious.

This evening we saw a good movie about a pastor’s family in Iowa.

Tiger footprints on pathway to hospital  

Some shipping arrived today (Are they being allowed to enter but not to leave?)

Fine.

Kein neues. (('No news'. Jones has been studying German, and starts writing diary entries in German. We'll use Google Translate to try and make sense of them.))