OBJECTIVE: Fly a fighter sweep over the Canton airbases and try to ambush the Japanese fighter pilots who have been patrolling the airspace over Samshui.
RESULTS: No Japanese aircraft are encountered and the fighter sweep is uneventful.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:15 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight P-51s from the 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Wilson; Lt. Trecartin; Lt. Shull; Lt. Shaeffer; Lt. Perkins; Lt. Anderson; Lt. E.E. Smith; Lt. Newsome (76th FS); Major Treacy (23rd FG); Lt. Bannon; Lt. Tolhurst (93rd FS)
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).