OBJECTIVE: Bomb the Kowloon shipyards (most likely the HK & Whampoa dockyard)
TIME OVER TARGET: ~12:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group) escort seven B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) and an unknown number of B-25s from the 1st Bomb Group of the Chinese American Composite Wing.
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:
- P-40s: Colonel Rouse; Major Denny; Captain Bell; Captain Jones; Lt. Lundy; Lt. Lee; 1st Lt. Richard Mauritson; 2nd Lt. Altheus B. Jarmon
- B-25s (11th BS):
- B-25 #46: 1st Lt. William A. Brenner; 2nd Lt. Delwyn F. Ritzdorf; 2nd Lt. Richard W. Sherman; Staff Sgt. Ray T. Hamilton; Sgt. Alvin A. Stainker
- B-25 #56: 1st Lt. Robert A. Nice; 2nd Lt. Thomas H. Anderson; 2nd Lt. Robert B. Fischborn; Staff Sgt. Eugene E. Banzhof; Sgt. Jean W. Walburn
- B-25 #55: 2nd Lt. Dow J. Richter; 2nd Lt. John T. Schmidt; 2nd Lt. Gerald M. O’Day; Sgt. Walter P. White; Sgt. Frederick T. Kaveney
- B-25 #57: 1st Lt. Carl J. LaValle; 2nd Lt. Richard L. Edwards; 1st Lt. William H.C. White; Staff Sgt. Robert A. Petrucelli; Sgt. Harold J. Coleman; Corporal Carl Cannon
- B-25 #68: 1st Lt. LeRoy J. Fontaine; 2nd Lt. Harold E. Sparhawk; 1st Lt. Seaborn V. Howard; Staff Sgt. Marino R. Galluzzo; Staff Sgt. Arthur B. Smith
- B-25 #79: 2nd Lt. Edward J. Pawlowski; 2nd Lt. Orrin G. Zebarth; 1st Lt. Paul J. Diekmann; Staff Sgt. Robert C. Appleby; Staff Sgt. Louis L. Steiner
- B-25 #92: Lt. Col. Joseph B. Wells; Captain Loren S. Nickels; 2nd Lt. Jack H. Potter; 2nd Lt. Charles A. Lutton; 2nd Lt. Herbert I. Robinson; Sgt. Joe D. Josserand; Staff Sgt. Harry L. Veale; Corporal Arbun K. Griffen
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Due to heavy cloud cover the bomber crews are unable to bomb the target and return all bombs to Kweilin
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).