Air Operations, CBI
CHINA
- 12 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 6 14th Air Force P-51s attack 2o bridges near Hankow.
- 4 B-25s attack rail targets near Lohochai and between Kinkiang and Koishan.
- 3 B-25s attack several motor-vehicle convoys.
- More than 80 fighter-bombers harass withdrawing Japanese Army units and lines of communications across southern and eastern China.
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Air Operations, East Indies XIII Bomber Command B-24s, 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s, and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack several targets on Borneo.
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Air Operations, Formosa - V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command P-38s sweep western Formosa.
- 4 Fleet Air Wing 17 PVs attack a tunnel, rail lines, and freight cars at Koryu.
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Air Operations, Japan During the night 29 9th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in the Shimonoseki Strait and off Fukuoka, Fushiki, and Karatsu.
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Air Operations, Pacific US bombers raid Tokyo again, dropping 3,252 tons of bombs and destroying the Ginza district and the surroundings of the Imperial Palace. Over 35 square miles of the city, more than half of it, have now been flattened. Many factories have been destroyed and the production of some war materials is down by 80 per cent.
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Air Operations, Philippines - V Bomber Command B-24s attack Echague and Tuguegarao.
- A-20s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack targets on Luzon.
- XIII Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army ground forces on Cebu.
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Air Operations, Ryukyus - US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
- 318th Fighter Group P-47s down 2 D4Y 'Judy' dive bombers north of Okinawa between 1515 and 1520 hours.
- 2 VMF-113 F4Us down a Ki-61 'Tony' fighter near Izena Shima at 1535 hours.
- Light kamikaze attacks damage several vessels in the Okinawa area.
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Burma Britain's XXXIII Corps occupies Bassein, an important railway town 80 miles to the west of Rangoon.
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China In the course of their general withdrawal the Japanese evacuate Nanning, capital of Kwangsi province. They no longer have any land communication with Indochina. The Chinese re-occupy the city.
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Germany SHAEF HQ is transferred from Rheims to Frankfurt-am-Main.
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Okinawa The Japanese withdrawing from the Shuri line are heavily bombarded from air, land and sea. One regiment of the 7th Div advances south along the east coast as far as a range of hills, but the other units suffer heavy losses in an attempt to Dick Hill, one of the Japanese strongpoints in the defensive line east of Chan.
Two US destroyers, Anthony (DD-515) and Braine (DD-630), the high-speed minesweeper Forrest (DMS-24), the submarine chaser PC-1603 and the surveying ship Dutton (AGS-8) are all damaged by Japanese suicide aircraft off Okinawa.
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Pacific - Mines laid by USAAF B-29s sink several Japanese ships: the submarine chaser /CHA-172 off Honshu; merchant cargo ships Mogi Maru (884t) south of Hime Jima; Shiokubi Maru (3747t) off Motoyamazakiand; No.9 Kaishin Maru (875t) and No.6 Myakawa Maru (872t) south of Hesaki.
- The US submarine Billfish (SS-286) sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship No.7 Kotobuki Maru (991t) off Nagasaki, Japan.
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