OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton, San Chau, and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:15 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40E1s from 16th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Jack R. Best and 1st Lt. Donald D. Bryant
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Canton and San Chau obscured by cloud cover. Hong Kong almost entirely obscured.
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None observed
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).