OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton area
RESULTS: Numerous reconnaissance photos taken of Canton area
TIME OVER TARGET: ~2:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One F-5B (#301) from Flight B, 21st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Lt. Schmidt
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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