Concert at S.S.
Diary pages from this date
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)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Dale L. Swartz
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Unknown
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
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).
Dreadfully cold.
Concert in evening - best I've seen here. Compered by Danny Wilson. Barton girls and others in colourful Spanish dance, and 4 girls in white, blue-bodiced dresses. H. Mundy gave a good 'Albert' poem ((a Stanley Holloway piece)), and 'Hong Kong' - words by Alec Kidd ((probably the 'Alexander Kidd' on the Stanley list, I didn't know him at all)). V Garton was good.
Mary (Taylor) came to tea, I took remains of the ground rice pudding to Rosaleen in hospital, she isn't looking well.
Rumours are that Turkey has entered war, and Hong Kong has been declared a free city; and we will be searched.
Had first of vitamin caramels today - taste fishy. ((Caramels by Red Cross, and distributed to us one at a time.))
Yvonne ((Blackmore, aged 15)) returned story, verdict: 'this story held my interest all the time, I was always loathe to put it down.'
Lent Miss Whale (who was a governess to Pamela Stanley, grand-daughter of Melba in Australia) my story.
Cold.
Turkey in the war?
((G.))