OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton area
TIME OVER TARGET: ~6:00 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40s from 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group, 14th Air Force)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain Morrison; 1st Lt. Harlyn Vidovich
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: No activity noted at Canton and much of area obscured by clouds
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).
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