06 Jun 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China

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OBJECTIVE: Block Pearl River channels with anti-ship mines

RESULTS: B-24s drop anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

TIME OVER TARGET: 9:40 to 10:50 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four B-24Js from the 374th, 375th, and 425th Bomb Squadrons (308th Heavy Bomb Group)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Three of the four B-24s drop twelve Mark 13 anti-ship mines into the Pearl River

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).

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