Spent night in Stanley Gaol cell
Diary pages from this date
Cheers Today Haemoglobin is up to 80% and Count to 4,260,000
OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton, San Chau, and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:15 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40E1s from 16th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Jack R. Best and 1st Lt. Donald D. Bryant
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Canton and San Chau obscured by cloud cover. Hong Kong almost entirely obscured.
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None observed
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission report 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).
Mabel had tonsils out today, said she hardly felt it, she ate half a pasty at tiffin. She hardly felt it, but later on looked paler and unhappier.
Lent 'Limelight on the Lower Fifth' to Golly (F.J.) Anslow today.
The gaol birds came out and by all accounts spent quite a good night. Most have cell to themselves, they were let out at half past 7 am.
List of what is in the parcels came today - tea, margerine, bacon, biscuits, choc, cheese.
Sir Vandeleur Grayburn (codename: Night) writes to Douglas Clague of the British Army Aid Group. He describes the situation in the wake of the Fenwick/Morrison escape - the Kempeitai want to intern all bankers, but the Foreign Affairs Office and the Finance Department oppose this, as they still need their help.
He reports that the younger men in Stanley will have to sleep in the prison, even though this was only announced in camp yesterday.
Source:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_Grayburn_to_Clague.jpg
Fine but cooler.
Plenty mosquitoes around.
Lybian news very good.
((G.))
Went to Stanley Prison 6.30pm to 7am