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OBJECTIVE: Block channels in Victoria Harbor with anti-ship mines and deny the use of the harbor to the Japanese.

RESULTS: Three B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the approaches to Victoria Harbor.  American intelligence now believes the port is completely blocked by mines dropped during this mission and the mission flown on August 29.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~8:38 to 9:41 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-24s from the 373^rd Bomb Squadron (308^th Heavy Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 12 x 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).

9.30 a.m. Outdoor roll-call

Ox tongue for pm meal

Workers received "back pay" cigarettes

Fine. Wind SE.

Outside roll-call 9.15AM.

4 Pkt.Cigs issued. Japs making up deficiency of workers cigs 1-10Aug.

Parcels promised & expected this afternoon again delayed, damn their bloody slant eyes. Canteen gear promised for tomorrow arrived today.

Russians nearing Bucharest. Bulgars ordered their troops to return from Yugo-Slavia & Greece and asked for Armistice 29th? The only opposition in Bulgaria & Romania now is German. Rheims comes into the news again after 30 yrs. rest. German General in broadcast said it took only 4 mths to lose as much territory as it had taken 4 yrs to obtain.  Propaganda & diplomacy has played a major part in the downfall of the Axis just as Stephen King-Hall said it would if employed correctly.

With Steve pm.

We had sliced tongue for pm meal & stew with plenty of fat in it.