Drop your bombs just here!-16 January 1945

Lts. JAMES S. SWOPE and CHARLES R. STIMSON (both USNR)

STUDY RECONNAISSANCE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HONG KONG ON BOARD

THE CARRIER USS HORNET (CV~12)

HORNET’S PLANES HIT HONG KONG ON 16 JANUARY 1945.

BOTH MEN WERE PILOTS WITH FIGHTER SQUADRON ELEVEN

(VF-11).

STIMSON, IN BACKGRQUND, WAS ONE, OF THE WAR’S LEADING “ACES”

WITH 16 “KILLS” IN F4F AND F6F AIRCRAFT.