Air Operations, CBI

• 32 14th Air Force fighters attack various targets.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command and 90th and 380th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack various targets on Borneo.

Air Operations, Japan

• Carrier aircraft from Task Group 38.1 and Task Group 38.4 attack the Kanoya airfield complex on Kyushu.
• VF-9 F6Fs down 2 A6M Zeros near Shibushi at 1315 hours.
• VII Fighter Command P-51s dispatched on a strike to Japan abort in the face of bad weather.
• The typhoon-damaged USS Bennington (Fleet Carrier Air Group 82, including VMF-112 and VMF-123) is detached from Task Group 38.1 to undergo repairs at Leyte.

Air Operations, Philippines

5th Air Force operations on Luzon are severely curtailed by bad weather, and a mission to Formosa is canceled.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
• A VC-99 FM downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter over Okinawa at 0750 hours.
• 318th Fighter Group P-47s down 5 A6M Zeros north of Okinawa between 0815 and 0841 hours.
• Marine Corps F4Us down 6 Japanese aircraft near Okinawa between 0815 and 0900 hours, and a Ki-45 'Nick' fighter off Okinawa at 2000 hours.

Air Operations, Pacific

110 B-29s drop high explosive bombs on Japanese aircraft factories at Akashi, Narao and Nagoya.

Dutch East Indies

Allied cruisers and destroyers lay down a heavy 2-day bombardment on Japanese facilities around Brunei Bay, on North Borneo's northwest coast.

Okinawa

Severe fighting continues in the Oroku peninsula, while the XXIV Coprs prepares a big attack against Mount Yaeju.

Pacific

• The cruiser Ashigara is sunk by the British submarine Trenchant off Sumatra.
• US carrier aircraft attack Kanoya airfield on Kyushu, inflicting further damage on Japanese homeland air resources.
• The US minesweeper Salute (AM-294) sinks by hitting a mine in the Borneo area.

Philippines

On Luzon the 145th Inf, 37th Div, takes Solano and advances almost as far as Bagabag, both places being northeast of Santa Fe, toward the Cagayan valley. Some patrols push eastward as far as the Magat River.

Images from June 8, 1945

Japanese cruiser Ashigara

Japanese Cruiser Ashigara

Demobilization of high-ranking German officers and officials at an internment camp, Esterwegen, Netherlands, 8 June 1945.

Demobilization of High-ranking Germans

LST-504 beached at Chim Wan, Okinawa, 8 June 1945 while being unloaded by Navy Seabees.

Unloading an LST

USS Makin Island (CVE-93) halfway into floating drydock ABSD-6, at Guam, 8 June 1945.

USS Makin Island at Guam