Air Operations, CBI
CHINA
- 2 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack ammunition and fuel dumps near Nanyang.
- 20 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack various targets.
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Air Operations, East Indies - FEAF B-24s attack the Pontianak airfield on Borneo, Tarakan Island, and Labuan Island.
- 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack Kudat, Miri, and Sandakan.
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Air Operations, Formosa - 45 V Bomber Command B-24s attack toxic-gas stores at Hozan.
- Despite poor visibility, B-24s attack the port area and warehouses at Kiirun.
- 17 B-24s weathered out of Kiirun attack the town area at Takao.
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Air Operations, Japan US carrier aircraft from Task Group 38.4 attack airfields on Kyushu. A VF-85 F4U downs a J2M 'Jack' fighter and a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter over Kagoshima Bay at 1005 hours.
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Air Operations, Philippines - V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets and support US 6th Army ground forces on Luzon.
- Fighter-bombers attack targets on Negros.
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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.
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Diplomatic Relations De Gaulle criticizes the British for intervention in Syria and Lebanon.
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Okinawa Mopping up continues, while the 6th Marine Div gets ready to land 2 regiments on the Oroku peninsula.
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Pacific TF 38 raids kamikaze bases in southern Japan. This, and other raids, compel the Japanese to continue operations from bases farther north.
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Philippines On Luzon in the US XI Corps sector, the 43rd Div finishes the mopping up of the Ipo area.
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World Affairs At San Francisco, Russian delegates demand the right of veto in the proposed UN Security Council.
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Images from June 2, 1945
398th Return to USA - 603rd Squadron - 2 June 1945
398th Return to USA
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Sgt George Laws, cine cameraman and photographer with No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit, poses with his cine camera for a final picture before leaving the North West European theatre in June 1945
A Cameraman and His Camera
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An LCT approaches the beach on Okinawa June 2 loaded with tires for American forces now compressing the enemy into one small section of the strategic island. These tires will soon be on 6 trucks and jeeps loaded with supplies in the front lines.
An LCT Loaded with Tires
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Brigadier J.D.B. Smith inspecting the Canadian Berlin Brigade before the unit's departure for Berlin. Rijssen, Netherlands, 2 June 1945
Inspecting the Canadian Berlin Brigade
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