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B.O.

OBJECTIVE: Block Pearl River channels with anti-ship mines

RESULTS: B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

TIME OVER TARGET: 9:40 to 10:50 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-24Js from the 374^th, 375^th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308^th Heavy Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Three of the four B-24s drop twelve Mark 13 anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

SOURCES: Original mission reports and other documents 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).

Fine, hot, cloudy.

Rigged mosquito net.

Ground rice for bread.

Allies pushed Goering’s Div. back. Our forces 5 klms east of Rome  (4th) Air-raid alarm of yesterday coincides with US raid on Kwongchauwan. Jap paper really very heartening although that is not their intention.

Choir practice 5-6pm. Steve at practice till 7.45pm.

Lovely moonlight night. I hope we are together again pal by or before next June’s full moon light.

Several internees went to Q.M. for X-ray. ((Probably Queen Mary Hospital))