Everything tagged: air raids

OBJECTIVE: Secret interception mission in vicinity of Hong Kong and Canton

TIME OVER TARGET: ~11:20 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT:  Three P-40E1 from 16^th Fighter Squadron (23^rd Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, 10^th Air Force)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1^st Lt. Dallas A. Clinger; 2^nd Lt. Walter E. Lacy

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: Anticipated enemy aircraft did not appear

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

OBJECTIVE: Dive-bomb shipping in Victoria Harbor

TIME OVER TARGET: ~11:00 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Seventeen P-40Es from 16^th and 75^th Fighter Squadrons (23^rd Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, 10^th Air Force)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance over Canton and Hong Kong

TIME OVER TARGET: ~9:00 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One P-43A Lancer on loan to the 23^rd Fighter Group (China Air Task Force) from the Chinese Air Force

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Bruce K. Holloway

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: Pilot reports no apparent damage from strikes on October 25 and 26, 1942, and this assessment is confirmed by aerial photographs of Kowloon taken during the mission.

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None

OBJECTIVE: Tien Ho airfield at Canton is the primary target, but when ground fog obscures the airbase, the bombers hit gasoline storage facilities and godowns instead.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~4:15 a.m.

AMERICAN SQUADRONS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-25s from 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group, China Air Task Force)

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:

OBJECTIVE: Bomb the North Point power station

TIME OVER TARGET: ~Midnight (American military documents, BAAG reports, and eyewitness accounts disagree on the time of the raid, which is said to occur somewhere between 23:00 on Oct. 25 and 01:30 on Oct. 26.)

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 500-pound bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs

RESULTS: No damage to power station, despite American claims to the contrary.  Some civilian casualties in residential areas near the plant.

OBJECTIVE: Bomb targets in Kowloon and draw Japanese fighter pilots into a dogfight on terms favorable to American fighter pilots.  This is the first American air strike on Hong Kong during the Second World War.

TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:30 p.m.

OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield at Canton

TIME OVER TARGET: ~6:20 a.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Five B-25C from 11^th Bomb Squadron (341^st Medium Bomb Group) escorted by 7 P-40Es from 23^rd Fighter Group.  All aircraft are from the China Air Task Force.

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major Dalene E. Bailey (B-25s); Captain Charles Sawyer; 1^st Lt. Patrick H. Daniels; 1st Lt. Charles H. Dubois; 1^st Lt. Harold K. Stuart (P-40s)

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the first American air raid on Canton is to bomb Japanese aircraft on the ground at Tien Ho airfield

TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:45 a.m.

OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance over Canton airfields

TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:00 p.m.

AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: One P-43A Lancer loaned to the 75^th Fighter Squadron (23^rd Fighter Group) by the Chinese Air Force

AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1^st Lt. Joseph H. Griffin

ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None

RESULTS: 15-20 aircraft observed on the ground at White Cloud airbase

JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Aircraft observed on the ground

AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None