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Diary pages from this date
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End of month Pastor Neilsen calls to say Mrs Smith died. Muriel went violent. To funeral. Pathetic few. Three funerals in week from French Hospital. Deaths due in part to malnutrition. To become ill is frightening.
No canteen due to lack of goods.
Lovely day.
Started demolishing a wall in order to procure bricks to build a hot water boiler with.
Allies advancing on all fronts. Nil re Saipan. Japs praising up their own war in China & Burma. 6 Chinese executed this afternoon.
I’ve run out of everything again damn it.
With Steve pm.
(HK to be relieved in 2 weeks? (camp rumour))
OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor with anti-ship mines
RESULTS: Five B-24s drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor (Lei Yue Mun, Sulphur, Rambler, and Kellett channels); a sixth B-24 drops mines into the Pearl River.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:10 to 11:42 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six B-24Js from the 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308th Heavy Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Twenty Mark 13 and Mark 13-5 anti-ship mines
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).