Air Operations, CBICHINA
Air Operations, East Indies
Air Operations, FormosaV Bomber Command B-24s attack Taihoku. [ | ]Air Operations, Japan8 28th Composite Bomb Group B-25s abort in the face of bad weather while on their way to attack Kurabu Cape, but 11 B-24s are able to attack the Kataoka naval base with the aid of radar. [ | ]Air Operations, PhilippinesV Bomber Command A-20s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets on Luzon. [ | ]Air Operations, RyukyusUS Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands. [ | ]Occupied GermanyPaul Ferdonnet, the 'Radio Traitor' of Stuttgart, is arrested by French troops in Bavaria. He is executed on August 5. []OkinawaGen Simon B. Buckner reduces the sector manned by the III Amphibious Corps, which has suffered the greatest losses, and increases that assigned to the XXIV Coprs. The front line goes from the southern suburbs of Naha to the spurs south of Shuri Ridge, reaching the east coast just south of Yonabaru. The 4th and 29th Marines, 6th Div, after a heavy preliniary bombardment, land on the north coast of the Oroku peninsula, which is manned by Vice-Adm Minoru Ota's naval infantry, and take about half of the airfield there. [ | ]Images from June 4, 1945
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