OBJECTIVE: Attack shipping in Victoria Harbor
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:50 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:
- B-25 #36: 1st Lt. George T. Grottle; 1st Lt. William A. Brenner; 1st Lt. Raymond J. Mazanowski; Staff Sgt. Golden U. Gallup
- B-25 #92: 1st Lt. Harold K. Searle; 2nd Lt. John O. Sandbach; 1st Lt. Howard V. Seaborn; Sgt. Robert W. Richardson
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 10 x 500-pound bombs
RESULTS: The B-25s score multiple hits and near misses on a 520-foot freighter, causing it to catch fire and sink in shallow water.
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission reports and other documents 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).