Captain Kurt's reworked Pearl Harbour US missions, & the introduction of civilian aircraft into the mix coincided with me looking at some of those other Early Pacific raids.
On December 8th, some ki-27 Nates escorted ki-32 Marys to strike at Hong Kong. Meeting no air opposition, they caught a number of Eurasia Ju-52s, & CNAC Curtiss AT-32 Condor IIs on the deck, as well as shooting up a PanAm Sikorsky S-42B.
Over subsequent days the civilian aircraft that survived the initial strike made several evacuation runs to China.
One of the AT-32s was captured & put to use flying cargo runs by the IJAAF over China.
The same kind of thing happened across Papua New Guinea, with strange old machines taking to the air in desperate attempts to flee the advancing Japs...
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