Air Operations, CBI

• 1 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24 attacks a bridge.
• 4 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 4 14th Air Force P-51s attack a bridge.
• A small number of fighter-bombers attack transportation targets at Chenghsien and Yoyang.

• 2 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack locomotives near Vinh.
• More than a dozen 51st Fighter Group fighter-bombers attack transportation targets at 4 locations.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the airfields at Fort Brook, Oelin, Tabanio on Borneo.

Air Operations, Formosa

• More than 100 V Bomber Command B-24s attack Kiirun and several other locations.
• B-25s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack an alcohol plant at Tainan and targets of opportunity.

Air Operations, Japan

454 XXI Bomber Command B-29s, escorted by 101 VII Fighter Command P-51s, attack large parts of Yokohama with 2,570 tons of incendiary bombs. 21 B-29s attack other targets. 7 B-29s and 3 P-51s are lost when the formation is attacked by an estimated 150 Japanese fighters. 15th and 21st Fighter group P-51s down 29 fighters over the Yokohama area between 1100 and 1105 hours.

Air Operations, Marianas

The B-29-equipped 509th Composite Bomb Group—the only atomic-warfare combat unit in the world—arrives at Tinian's North Field from the United States for service with the 20th Air Force.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Bomber Command B-24s, B-25s, and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack numerous targets throughout Luzon. Also, 25 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s based on Morotai attack and demolish the last nest of Japanese motor-torpedo boats in Mindanao’s Davao Gulf with 36 tons of bombs.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• A US picket destroyer is severely damaged by a twin engine kamikaze at 0013 hours. Casualties are 32 killed and 28 wounded.
• US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Shakishima Islands.

Air Operations, Pacific

101 Mustangs, escorting B-29 formations over Yokohama, shoot down 26 of 150 defending Zeros and other JNAF interceptors, losing only 3 of their own in the process.

Belgium, Home Front

Belgian Socialists call on King Leopold III to abdicate. The monarch had always been held in low regard by the government-in-exile and by many Belgians for his independent policies immediately preceding the war and his capitulation to the Germans in 1940 without reference to the French who were aiding in Belgium's defense.

Japan, Command

Adm Jisaburo Ozawa replaces Adm Soemu Toyoda as commander of the Combined Fleet.

Okinawa

The 6th Marine Div advances from Naha to the east. Units of the 1st Marine Div take Shuri Ridge, south of the Wana valley, and occupy Shuri Castle, which the Japanese have already abandoned. On the left, where the XXIV Corps is in action, the 7th Div continues its attacks against Japanese positions near the village of Karadera.

The US high-speed transport Tatum (APD-81) is damaged by a suicide plane during the day's operations. Two US ships are damaged running aground, the motor minesweeper YMS-81 and landing craft LST-844.

Philippines

On Luzon the US I Corps prepares to move on from Santa Fe to Aritao and take the whole of the Cagayan valley. Filipino guerrillas occupy Cervantes.

On Mindanao the US 24th Div advances on Mandog, the last Japanese strongpoint north of the Davao plain, which is attacked from the air.

Syria

Fighting breaks out between French forces and Syrian Nationalists in Damascus. French forces shell Damascus and Hama in Syria, and the Syrians ask the British for help. The British arrange a cease fire on May 31.

Images from May 29, 1945

Morotai - 29 May 1945: Battalion LVTs on the move - 727th Amphibian Tractor Bn

727th Amphibian Tractor Bn

US Marine Lt-Col R. P. Ross Jr. raising the US flag over Shuri Castle, Okinawa

Raising the Flag

Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw, lies in an ambulance after his arrest by British officers at Flensburg, Germany, on 29 May 1945. He was shot during the arrest.

Lord Haw Haw Arrested

A sign erected by British Forces at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, 29 May 1945. The remains of the camp itself were about to be burnt to the ground by the British occupation forces. A similar sign in German was also erected.

Bergen-Belsen Sign

A B-29 releases incendiary bombs on Yokohama in May 1945

Bombing Yokohama

Image of a photograph taken over Yokohama, Japan during a B-29 bombing raid on 29 May 1945

Bombing Raid on Yokohama

Incendiary bombs tumble from Twentieth Air Force B-29s over Yokohama in May 1945

Bombing Raid on Yokohama

US Marines at Shuri Castle view the carnage and devastation of this hotly contested portion of the battlefield.

Okinawa Battlefield Scene