Gallery: 1940s Hong Kong

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Gallery:

Title	Year
Peak Tram track layout at the upper entrance to the passing loop	1946
Peak Tram track layout at the lower entrance to the passing loop	1945
CLP admin offices+ St George apartments-newly built1941	1941
Cheung Chau island remains of a prewar house	c.1945
1945 Royal Naval Dockyard	1945
BOAC to Hong Kong the Dragon Route newly qualified stewardess about to depart.	1949
Junk with defensive ancient cannons	1945
Aberdeen-vessel destined for breaking up	1949
Crew coach with RAF roundel derived from gwulo.com 38630	1948
1940s Lei Yuen Water Tower / Pagoda	1940s
Patrolling horse riders-Kowloon-1945	1945
1947 Star Hotel	1947
1940 Mr. Getsuro Yamaguchi Interned at La Salle College	1940
1940 Return of Women & Children Evacuees from Manila	1940
Photo of Elsa Soares Balcerzak (bottom right) with her brother (upper left) his wife (lower right) and unidentified person (upper right).	1940s
Kai Tak wartime leftovers-abandoned Aichi E13A floatplanes-1945	1945
7 December 1941, Hong Kong Telegraph	1946
Kwangti racecourse & Japanese intruder crash site-05 09 1940	1940
1946 Robinson Road & Glenealy Ravine	1946
ARP tunnel Network 49	2025
Hong Kong Adventist College 1946	1946
1942 (Remaining) U.S. Consulate General Staff at Hong Kong	1942
Bridges over Peak Tram 1945/46	c.1946
Dock workers waiting for cargo from cargo junks, Central District, Hong Kong Island.	1947
1940s Spitfires at Kai Tak	1940s
Japanese prisoners of war in Hong Kong 1945	1945
THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG, DECEMBER 1941	1941
1945 (?) Fenwick Street	1945
1947 Naval Dockyard Nissen Huts	1947
1940s Junction of Austin Avenue and Austin Road	1940s
Peninsula Hotel	1940s
Japanese POW Camps in WWII (back)	1945
Aerial Photograph of Haiphong Road 1945	1945
Tiger Balm Garden 1940s	c.1940
1947 Haiphong Road	1947
1941 Air Raid on Kai Tak (Lighter Newsprint Version)	1941
Olympic Grand Circus 1940	1940
1946 Arrival of RAF Sunderland "S" at Kai Tak	1946
Damaged RAF Sunderland flying boat run ashore at Kai Tak after flight from Singapore 1946	1946
1940s Aberdeen Street	1940s
1947 Albany Filter Beds and Nearby Residences	1947
a time for light	1945
Japanese Soldiers of the 228 Battalion, 38 Regiment cross the Kwong Fuk Bridge.	1941
Japanese crossing Kwong Fuk Bridge on 8 December 1941.	1941
Custodian Wharf 1940s	c.1947
1940s Envelope - Fraternity Book Room	1940s
1942 Benjamin Proulx - Return Home to Ottawa, Canada	1942
1940s Benjamin Proulx	1940s
Francis Woodley Kendall SOE personnel file portrait.	1941
1940s Queen's Road Central	1940s
Wellington Barracks 1946	1946
1945 Major-General Umekichi Okada	1945
1945 Kai Tak	1945
1945 Kowloon	1945
Kai Tak Airfield Aerial Photo	1946
Kai Tak Aerial view of Runways	1946
Aerial Photo of US Airforce Hung Hom Bombing	1944
Aerial view of HK Harbour US Airforce Bombing	1944
ss nellore passengers 2	1941
1949 Victoria Harbour	1949
1949 Lyemun Gap	1949
1949 Yuen Chau Tsai, Tai Po	1949
Kowloon Horse Carriage Company route suspension	1942
Kowloon Tricycle Passenger Service Company	1943
Japanese minister arriving at Kai Tak 03 12 1943	1943
1949 Miss Naylor - Dress Shop/Importer of Dresses	1949
1947 Advertisement - BOAC Flying Boat Service	1947
1947 Advertisement - Gloucester Hotel Restaurant & Ballroom	1947
1945 Capt Wilde & Nita Olivier (?)	1945
1945 Central waterfront	1945
1940s Central Connaught Road waterfront	c.1946
Peninsula Hotel and KCR tracks	1940s
Grampian Road?	1940s
1946 Kai Tak Airport	1946
c.e. warren co. ltd hong kong telegraph page 8 25th june 1940	1940
1940 Funeral of Ada Maud Woods WOODS (née FITZ STUBBS, aka Maud)	1940
1940 Layout Plan of Kai Tak Airport	1940s
1940 Location of Kai Tak Airport	1940s
c.e._warren_co._ltd_hong_kong_telegraph_page_4_29th_october_1940.png	1940
hong_kong_telegraph_page_4_29th_march_1940.png	1940
1948 Exterior of Nan Yang cotton mills.	1948
North Point district-aerial-circa-1949	1949
luba_skvorzov_the_china_mail_page_10_29th_december_1948.png	1948
North Point aerial photograph 1949	1949
antoniocarlosneves1a.jpg.png	1945
Argyle Street camp-interned Chinese Soldiers	1941
Stubbs Road near Magazine Gap 1941	1941
Site of King George V Memorial Park (Kowloon) 1948	1948
Private Geoffrey Clayton Jitts of the HKVDC - 1946 Article and Medals	1946
Hung Hom Police Station 1945_49	1949
1949 aerial view of Green Island Cement Company	1949
map 1945 Kwo Lo Wan	1945
Braemar Hill crash victim -Olive Batley-declared Estate	1949
RAF VAMPIRE after its rescue from Bias Bay	1949
1949 de Havilland Vampire Demonstration Flight	1949
Air Raid Tunnels construction undermine Govt. House	1941
Imperial Airways passenger-Master R. CLEMO	1940
Circus Elephant unloaded-Mackie's Wharf-North Point	1949
20211129_192327.jpg	1940s
20211129_192254.jpg	1940s

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