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OBJECTIVE: Staggered single-aircraft night raids to harass Canton airfields and prevent JAAF from flying night bombing missions

RESULTS: B-25s bomb Tien Ho and White Cloud airbases.  Damaged is unknown, but bombs ignite a large fire in godowns near Tien Ho.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:24 to 11:00 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-25J from 491^st Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Main; Lt. Biswell; Lt Ley; Lt. Strom

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: One aircraft with 4 x 500-pound incendiary clusters; two aircraft with 24 x 100-pound fragmentation bombs; one aircraft with 6 x 500-pound general-purpose bombs

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).

B.O.

Fine, hot.

Brick work & wood chopping.  

Kovel evacuated by Germans.  Advances made by us in France & Italy, Finnland & Russia. Saipan Island surrendered 30th June. Described in Chinese paper as “Peace Overtures”. Japs trying to softsoap Chungking now that things are going against them. Burma, Bonins & Saipan not mentioned today.

Firewood rationing cancelled in town. Something else the Japs couldn’t control blast’em.

With Steve pm. He told me of the yarn going the rounds re Christine being my baby. Something must be done about it.