OBJECTIVE: Weather reconnaissance over the Canton area
RESULTS: Pilots encounter scattered thunderstorms and are unable to observe Canton airbases
TIME OVER TARGET: ~5:00 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-51s from 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Rodier; Lt. Florance
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
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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