Hot, light breeze.
Thiamin.
Chopped wood.
4oz oil, 1.06oz Sugar, 1oz Tea & 1oz Curry Pwdr. issued.
Chopped up more wood for Rita.
Hitler takes over Supreme Command. Nancy captured 19th.
With Steve pm. Nice shower after.
Paper again tells us electric power & tobacco supply to be resumed.
Air-raid alarm 9.50pm. Plane around about 10 but nothing happened. All-clear 10.45pm.
OBJECTIVE: Block approaches to Victoria Harbor and Pearl River with anti-ship mines and deny the use of the harbor and river to the Japanese.
RESULTS: Four B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the approaches to Victoria Harbor and the Pearl River.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-24s from the 308th Heavy Bomb Group
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 22 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).