Air Operations, CBI

• 4 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 29 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack various targets.

Air Operations, East Indies

• Supplementing Royal Australian Air Force efforts, FEAF B-24s attack various targets on Borneo.
• 42d Medium Bomb Group B-25s provide on-call support for Australian Army forces in the Brunei Bay area.

Air Operations, Japan

• VII Fighter Group P-51s attack the Tokorozawa airfield on Honshu.
• 8 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack the Kataoka and Kurabu Cape areas with the aid of radar.
• 318th Fighter Group P-47s down 4 A6M Zeros over the Kushira airfield between 0845 and 0900 hours.
• A 21st Fighter Group P-51 downs a Ki-45 'Nick' fighter near the Tokorozawa airfield on Honshu at 1315 hours.
• During the night 26 505th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Shimonoseki Strait and Tsuruga Bay.

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.

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 VMSB-131 SBD on anti-submarine patrol downs a D3A 'Val' dive bomber at sea at 0742 hours.
• A VMF-314 F4U downs a Ki-61 'Tony' fighter near Yoron Shima at 0745 hours.
• VMF-311 F4Us down 2 Ki-46 'Dinah' reconnaissance planes near Okinawa between 1900 and 1905 hours.
• A 318th Fighter Group P-47 downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter north of Okinawa at 1940 hours.
• A large US support landing craft on radar picket duty is moderately damaged by a kamikaze that kills 11 and wounds 1.

Okinawa

In the Oroku peninsula the Japanese are penned into a pocket about a thousand yards deep, but they put up a fanatical resistance. The 1st Marine Div fails to take Kunishi Ridge by assault. In the XXIV Corps sector, 1 regiment of the 96th Div reaches the town of Yuza, but is driven out again by the violent Japanese fire. The aritllery brings down fire on the Japanese cave positions on Mount Yaeju, east of which the Americans manage to take an important height.

US ships damaged in the day's action include the light cruiser Vicksburg (CL-86) in a collision and the landing ship dock Lindenwald (LSD-6) by accidental friendly fire.

Pacific

The Japanese submarine chaser No. 237 is sunk by US naval land based aircraft in the Sea of Japan.

Philippines

On Luzon, there is fighting at Orioung Pass, where the Japanese are still holding up the US 37th Div.

Images from June 11, 1945

Brunei Bay area, North Borneo. 11 June 1945. Members of Battalion HQ, 2/17 Infantry Battalion, moving along the road from Brooketon to Brunei during Operation Oboe 6

Australian Soldiers Moving from Brooketon to Brunei

Labuan Island. 11 June 1945. Storehouses at Victoria Docks which were wrecked during the pre-invasion bombing of the area during the Oboe 6 Operation

Damaged Storehouses at Victoria Docks

Cpl. Sorenson on LVT as he guides amtrac into LST-922 on 11 June 1945 at Muara Island

Guiding Amtrac into LST