OBJECTIVE: Fly a series of staggered single-aircraft night raids to harass airbases at Canton and prevent JAAF pilots from flying night bombing missions against American airbases in China.
RESULTS: Four B-25s hit Tien Ho and five B-25s hit White Cloud. An estimated 50% of bombs fall within target zone, though damage is unknown.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:00 to 10:20 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Nine B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Kenneth Martindale; 1st Lt. Simpson D. Huffaker; 2nd Lt. Arthur Thomas; 2nd Lt. Peter W. Petersen; 1st Lt. James Talley; 2nd Lt. John C. Steadman; 2nd Lt. Leander L. Smith; 1st Lt. Henry D. Wagner; 1st Lt. Marcus L. Sloat
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 20 x 100-pound bombs; 72 x 100-pound fragmentation bombs; 24 x 500-pound bombs
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).