Air Operations, CBI

• 32 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Nanyang, rail yards at Anyang, 2 ferries in northern French Inochina, and a bridge.
• More than 40 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets across southern and eastern China.

Air Operations, East Indies

• XIII Bomber Command and 380th and 90th Heavy Bomb group B-24s attack Labuan and Tarakan islands and 3 airfields on Borneo.
• XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack 3 locations on Borneo.

Air Operations, Formosa

Weathered out of their primary and secondary targets, 11 V Bomber Command B-24s attack Taito.

Air Operations, Japan

• 473 XXI Bomber Command B-29s attack Kobe with 3,077 tons of incendiary bombs while 8 B-29s attack other targets.
• 11 B-29s are lost.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack targets and support US 6th Army ground forces 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.

Air Operations, Pacific

More than 3,000 tons of incendiaries are dropped over Kobe in a raid by 473 B-29 bombers.

Diplomatic Relations

The Allied agreement on the partition of Germany and the city of Berlin is signed by Eisenhower, Montgomery, de Lattre de Tassigny and Zhukov.

Okinawa

The Japanese put up a determined resistance to the 6th Marine Div on the Oroku peninsula, but the Marines manage to capture most of the airfield. The XXIV Corps nears the last Japanese defensive line in the south of the island, which runs from Yuza in the west to Guschichan on the east coast and is based on 3 hills, Yaeju, Yuza and Mezado.

A sudden typhoon damages a number of American ships off Okinawa: 4 battleships (Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59), Alabama (BB-60) and Missouri (BB-63)), 2 aircraft carriers (Hornet (CV-12) and Bennington (CV-20)), 2 light aircraft carriers (Belleau Wood (CVL-24) and San Jacinto (CVL-30)), 4 escort carriers (Windham Bay (CVE-92), Salamaua (CVE-96), Bougainville (CVE-100) and Attu (CVE-102)), 3 heavy cruisers (Baltimore (CA-68), Quincy (CA-71) and Pittsburgh (CA-72)), 4 light cruisers (Detroit (CL-8), San Juan (CL-54), Duluth (CL-87) and Atlanta (CL-104)), 11 destroyers (Schroeder (DD-501), John Rodgers (DD-574), McKee (DD-575), Dashiell (DD-659), Stockham (DD-683), De Haven (DD-727), Maddox (DD-731), Blue (DD-744), Brush (DD-745), Taussig (DD-746) and Samuel N. Moore (DD-747)), 3 destroyer escorts (Donaldson (DE-44), Conklin (DE-439) and Hilbert (DE-742)), 2 tankers (Lackawanna (AO-40) and Millicoma (AO-73)) and a transport (Shasta (AE-6)) loaded with ammunition suffer more or less serious damage.

The cruiser Pittsburgh (CA-72) loses 32 m of her bow, but eventually reaches Guam 1,448 km away. The battleship Mississippi (BB-41) and the heavy cruiser Louisville (CA-28) are hit and seriously damaged by Japanese suicide aircraft. Also damaged in the day's operations are the destroyer Dyson (DD-572) by collision, the minesweeper Scuffle (AM-298) and the gasoline tanker Sheepscot (AOG-24) both by grounding.

Philippines

On Luzon in the US I Corps sector, units of the 37th Div occupy Aritao and advance beyond this town to the north.

Images from June 5, 1945

On 5 June 1945 the Bennington was damaged by a typhoon off Okinawa and retired to Leyte for repairs, arriving 12 June.

Typhoon Damage

Marshal Zhukov (Center) pours a toast at the 5 June 1945 meeting in Berlin. General Eisenhower (left) departed immediately after the toast. On the right are Field Marshal Montgomery and General de Lattre de Tassigny.

Allies Meeting in Berlin

On 5 June 1945, King Haakon, accompanied by the Crown Princess Marthe and her three children, embarked in the British cruiser Norfolk to return home. King Haakon inspecting a Royal Marine Guard of Honour on the quayside before the Norfolk left.

King Haakon returns to Norway

Water crashes over the flight deck of the carrier Hornet (CV 12) during a typhoon on June 5, 1945.

Onboard Hornet During a Typhoon

Battleship USS Indiana in a typhoon near Okinawa, 5 June 1945

Battleship USS Indiana in a Typhoon

Cruiser Pittsburgh en route to Guam for temporary repairs, shortly after she lost her bow in a typhoon on 5 June 1945.

Pittsburgh en route to Guam for temporary repairs