OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over San Chau and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:15 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: Captain Edmund H. Goss; 1st Lt. Robert H. Mooney
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Pilots observe construction activity at San Chau airfield, but the only aircraft on the ground is a single transport plane. At Hong Kong, the pilots use high-powered binoculars to observe ships in Victoria Harbor, including four to five large merchant vessels and two smaller vessels.
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).