TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:00 p.m.
OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance over Hong Kong and Canton
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One P-43A Lancer on loan to the 23rd Fighter Group from the Chinese Air Force
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Bruce K. Holloway
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Aerial photographs taken during mission show many small vessels and one large vessel in Victoria Harbor, plus two large vessels under repair at the HK & Whampoa dockyard
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission report 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).