Air Operations, CBI

• 15 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 7 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack bridges at 2 locations and various other targets.
• 55 fighter-bombers attack targets across southern and eastern China.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s, 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s, and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack Bintula, Kudat, Jesselton, and Tarakan Island.

Air Operations, Formosa

• 89 V Bomber Command B-24s attack the town areas at Koshun, Okayama, and Toshien.
• B-25s attack an oil plant near Kagi and various targets of opportunity.

Air Operations, Japan

During the night 30 9th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in the Shimonoseki Strait. 1 B-29 is lost.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Bomber Command B-25s and A-30s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• US Navy, Marine Corps, and Royal Navy aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
• A VMF(N)-543 F6F downs an A6M2-N 'Rufe' fighter-bomber off Okinawa at 2020 hours.
• A VMF(N)-542 F6F downs a Ki-61 'Tony' fighter off Okinawa at 2052 hours.

Britain, Home Front

(?)In rationing there are new cuts affecting fats, bacon, meat and soap.

Germany

Montgomery is appointed CinC of British Forces of Occupation.

Okinawa

Heavy rains begin pounding the area, hampering opeations for almost 2 weeks. The 7th Div occupies the ruins of the town of Yonabaru, on the left of the American line. On the right, the 6th Marine Div reaches the north bank of the Asato River and sends patrols over to the south bank. The Japanese withdraw all the forces they can from the Shuri line and Shuri village. The US forces occupy Yonabaru.

Pacific

US carrier-based aircraft sink the Japanese submarine chasers Nos. 37 and 58 and the transport No. 173 off southeastern Japan.

Philippines

On Luzon in the US I Corps sector units of the 25th Div advance to within a mile and a quarter southeast of Santa Fe. In the XI Corps sector, units of the 149th Infantry try to take the Guagua dam but are driven back by the Japanese. The 152nd Infantry, with the help of tanks armed with flame-throwers, take the area where the Mariquino River flows into the Bosoboso.

On Mindanao the 155th Infantry of the US 31st Div occupies the town of Kalasungay, abandoned by the Japanese, and during the operation surprises a big enemy contingent, which is cut to pieces. Units of the 24th Div reach Tambongan, and others gain ground east of the Talomo River.

United States, Politics

President Truman reports to Congress on the Lend-Lease program. He announces that up to March 1945 Britain had received supplies worth $12,775,000,000 and the Soviets $8,409,000,000. Reverse Lend-Lease, mostly from Britain has been worth almost $5,000,000,000 in the same period.

Images from May 22, 1945

Wounded personnel resting under the wing of Douglas C-47 'Skytrain', Rosales Airstrip, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Flight Nurses of the 409th Medical Col. Company take information for manifest of patients. 22 May 1945

Wounded Personnel Resting in the Philippines

Officers of the 22nd NZ Battalion and their guests listen to the Battalion Pipe Band at a dance held by the Battalion at a Baron's homestead overlooking the city of Trieste. (Photographed by George Kay in May 1945.)

Battalion Dance near Trieste