Cold & damp. Quiet day.
Commenced night duty at Hosp. with Frain.
Saw Steve little while pm.
No smokes.
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Cold, damp.
German lesson.
Saw Steve pm.
Choir practice.
8pm to Hosp.
Birth of Eunice Jean Nance to Elizabeth and Ancil B. W. Nance.
Tha Nances were American missionaries who had declined repatriation to stay and help the British internees. Eunice was their second child born in camp.
Birth of Eunice Jean Nance:
Pregnant women were advised to start sleeping at the hospital when it got close to their due date. I took with me a stack of little garments to finish by hand. When I arrived at the hospital, my baby was born by four the next morning. It was February 9, 1944.
Our fourth child was named Eunice Jean Nance. “Eunice” was the name of Dr. Allister Loan’s fiancée back in New Zealand.
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Cold, nice afternoon.
New order re chatties.
A1-4 rice rations in a mess, many complaints in circulation.
2Pkts cigs issued.
Started block congee routine. Lucky to get any this morning.
Saw Steve before going on night duty.
Wrote music for Eve.
Fine & sunny but still cold.
Ground rice for Mary.
German lesson.
Received my reading glasses.
Saw Steve pm.
Night duty.
Edwin Starling died, leaving wife in camp.
Death of Master Mariner Edwin Starling, aged 45, from dysentery.
Source:
Philip Cracknell at http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/stanley-military-cemete…
We were all P-40 pilots in the Chinese-American Composite Wing of the 14th Air Force working out of Ehr Tong auxiliary at Kweilin. The gas supply was low and the weather bad lately, so we hadn’t flown much and a mission was a welcome break in the monotony of daily alerts…
Fine. Cold pm.
Air raid aft.?
Saw Steve pm.
Night duty.
Food very poor lately.
OBJECTIVE: Air strike against Kai Tak airfield
RESULTS: Twelve B-25s bomb Kai Tak. Four P-40s are shot down in a dogfight with defending Japanese fighters.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:37 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT:
Lane Crawford baker Serge Peacock (Bungalow D) is about to receive some bad news. Today the International Red Cross in Hong Kong receive a telegram from his mother through their Shanghai Delegation telling him that his father died on January 19.
Peacock was a naturalised Russian, who'd changed his name from Piankoff. The late Mr. Piankoff had worked alongside his son in the Lane Crawford Bakery on Stubbs Road during the hostilities, but had presumably remained uninterned as Russian or stateless and gone with his wife to Shanghai.
B.C.C. last mtg. office moved to Bl. 2
BO
((Lt Kerr is hiding in an old foxhole in the mountains above Kowloon…))
An unwelcome drizzle had arrived with daybreak, bringing reality with it. It was quite an effort to grasp the nightmare qualities of the previous day and focus on the present situation, but my stiff, aching frame was an instant reminder.
The…morning passed very slowly while I repaired and added to my bandages, cleaned the bore of my gun with a strip off that handy undershirt and occasionally took cautious peeks at the outside world…
Fine.
Wrote music all day.
4Pkts cigs issued.
Saw Steve pm.
Night duty.