Air Operations, CBI

• 65 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets of opportunity across southern and eastern China.
• 27 P-51s attack troops, bridges, stores, and other military targets in the Yoyang area.
• 16 P-51s attack bridges and military installations in the Wuchang area.
• A 311th Fighter Group P-51 downs an A6M Zero over the airfield at Sinsiang Airdrome at 0510 hours.

• 19 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 8 51st Fighter Group fighter-bombers attack rail, road, and river traffic at 4 locations in French Indochina and several locations in southern China.
• 24 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack rail facilities at Muongman and Gia Ray and rail lines between Saigon and Phanrang.
• 23 380th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack rail yards at Phanrang. After dropping their bombs, many of the B-24s undertake low-level strafing attacks against targets of opportunity.

Air Operations, East Indies

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s, 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s, and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack Balikpapan.
• P-38s dive-bomb the Jesselton and Keningau airfields on Borneo.

Air Operations, Formosa

V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various industrial targets of opportunity across Formosa.

Air Operations, Japan

• 53 506th Fighter Group P-51s based on Iwo Jima attack airfields in the Tokyo area.
• 318th Fighter Group P-47s down 7 A6M Zeros over the Kanoya East airfield on Kyushu during the late morning.
• 506th Fighter Group P-51s down 2 fighters over the Kasumigaura area at 1355 hours.
• 318th Fighter Group P-47s down 4 A6M Zeros over Amakusa Jima, near Kyushu, between 1400 and 1425 hours.
• 347th Fighter Group P-47s downs 6 A6M Zeros over Kagoshima Bay between 1515 and 1650 hours.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Bomber Command B-24s, B-25s, and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack numerous targets on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
• Japanese aircraft based on Kyushu attack Allied ships off Okinawa. 1 US destroyer is sunk and several other vessels are damaged for the loss of several hundred kamikaze and other aircraft. Casualties aboard the sunken destroyer, which is struck by a bomb-laden P1Y 'Galaxy' bomber, are horrific—158 killed and 51 wounded.
• VMF(N)-533 F6Fs down a G4M 'Betty' bomber and 2 J1N 'Irving' fighters off Okinawa and Ie Shima between 0200 and 0320 hours.
• US Marine Corps F4Us down 20 Japanese aircraft in several engagements between 0630 and 0820 hours.
• VF-85 F4Us and VBF-9 F6Fs down 14 Japanese aircraft in three engagements between 0700 and 0900 hours.

Britain, Policy

The British and American navies issue a joint announcement to all merchant ships in the Atlantic, Arctic and Indian oceans that the convoy system has ended. Ships should now 'burn navigation lights at full brilliancy and need not darken ship'. War conditions continue to apply only in the Pacific.

Burma

The British undertake a vast reorganization of commands and formations in preparation for the operations against Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. The 12th Army is formed under Gen Montagu Stopford, with 2 Indian divisions, 1 West African division and 3 brigades, of which one is British.

Germany

'Lord Haw-Haw', William Joyce, is captured in Flensburg by British troops. Joyce was a British fascist who became a radio propagandist for the Nazis during the war. He was convicted of treason and eventually executed.

Holland

Queen Wilhelmina returns to Holland.

Middle East

Open fighting breaks out between the French and Arabs in Syria and Lebanon.

Okinawa

In the III Amphibious Corps sector, units of the 4th Marine Div advance through Naha as far as the Kokuba River. They run into violent resistance when they attempt to put a small group on the islet of Ona, in Naha harbor.

The Japanese air force steps up its attacks on American ships, using high-level bombers, dive bombers and kamikaze aircraft. The US destroyer Shubrick (DD-639) is damaged in the attacks, but the Japanese lose about 100 aircraft. This is the last big air offensive mounted by the Japanese in the Okinawa area.

Pacific

• The US Task Force 58 is transferred from the 5th Fleet to the 3rd Fleet and redesignated 'TF 38'
• The Japanese coast defense vessel No. 29 is sunk when it hits a US mine off Kyushu, Japan.

Philippines

On Luzon, in the US XI Corps sector, units of the 149th Inf occupy the Guagua dam, evacuated by the Japanese.

United States, Home Front

Truman proposes to increase the Federal unimployment insurance to $25 a week.

Images from May 28, 1945

Indifferent-Completely ignoring that fact that his camp is half submerged by heavy Okinawa rains, Marine Staff Sergeant A.S. Barnacle, of Minneapolis, Minn., stands knee deep in water to shave at his "Rube Goldberg" washstand.

Shaving in a Flooded Camp

German POWs march out of Amsterdam on way to Germany. 28 May 1945

German POWs March out of Amsterdam

JASCO (Joint Assault Signal Company) jeep, Libby Airfield, Mindanao, Philippine Islans. 28 May 1945

JASCO Jeep

FIDO (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations) petrol burners are ignited on either side of the main runway at Graveley, Huntingdonshire, as an Avro Lancaster of No. 35 Squadron RAF takes off in deteriorating weather, 28 May 1945. Guy Callendar helped devise the FIDO system.

FIDO Petrol Burners