OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep over the Canton airfields
RESULTS: No enemy aircraft are encountered in the air or observed on the ground.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~12:45 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT:
- Eight P-40s and six P-51s from the 76th Fighter Squadron
- Nine P-51s and three P-40s from the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (TRS)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:
- 76th FS: Lt. Perkins, Lt. Anderson, Lt. Thompson, 2nd Lt. Jerome F. Eisenman, Lt. Newsome, Lt. Baker, Lt. Joyner (5th FG CACW), Lt. Wheeler (74th FS), Major Slocumb (23rd FG), 2nd Lt. Robert L. Schaeffer, Lt. Dahlberg, Lt. Raymond, Lt. Moore, Lt. Policarpo
- 118th TRS: Major Edward O. McComas, Lt. Smith, Lt. Wegman, Lt. Miehe, 1st Lt. Everson F. Pearsall, Lt. Greene, Lt. Murray, Lt. Denton, Lt. Williams, Lt. Robbins (74th FS), Lt. Wells (23rd FG), Lt. Long (23rd FG)
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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