TIME OVER TARGET: ~3:30 p.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. Robert A. O’Neill and 2nd Lt. George V. Pyles
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Canton obscured by cloud cover. Pilots observe one destroyer and four medium-sized ships in Victoria Harbor.
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Three aircraft from unknown unit attempt to intercept the P-40s, but are unable to close within firing range
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).