Air Operations, Carolines
Royal Navy carrier aircraft from the heavy carrier HMS Implacable attack the Truk Atoll day and night.
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]Air Operations, CBI
CHINA- 3 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 47 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack stores and numerous road, rail, and river targets.
| ]Air Operations, East Indies
- Supplementing Royal Australian Air Force efforts, FEAF B-24s attack artillery positions at Balikpapan.
- 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack targets around Brunei and Kudat.
| ]Air Operations, Formosa
- 84 V Bomber Command B-24s attack the airfield at Taichu.
- 2 386th Bomb Squadron B-32s attack a sugar mill at Taito with 16 2,000-pound bombs.
- B-25s attack Rokko and the airfield at Okaseki.
| ]Air Operations, Japan
- 444 XXI Bomber Command B-29s attack Osaka and Amagasaki with 3,157 tons of incendiary bombs. 25 B-29s attack other targets.
- 2 B-29s are lost.
- VII Fighter Command P-51s dispatched to escort B-29s over Japan abort in the face of bad weather.
- During the night, 30 505th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Shimonoseki Strait and off Fukuoka, Fushiki, and Karatsu.
| ]Air Operations, Philippines
V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets 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
The blighted city of Osaka is revisited by US B-29s, and is bombarded with a further 3,000 tons of bombs and incendiaries.
[ | ]Allied Planning
The Joint War Plans Committee submits a briefing paper to the Joint Chiefs of Staff reaffirming its recommendation that an invasion of the home islands is the only means for the decisive defeat of Japan. Planners estimate 193,000 American casualties. Although Soviet participation in the invasion is no longer essential to success, Soviet forces could be useful in holding Japanese troops in northern China and Manchuria and preventing them from reinforcing the home island defenses.
[ | ]Britain, Home Front
Parliament is dissolved in anticipation of the first General Election since 1935.
[ | ]Burma
The mopping up in the Shan Mountains are ends. Mountbatten addresses a Victory Parade in Rangoon.
[ | ]Dutch East Indies
Australian forces complete clearing the islands of Labuan and Muara, off Borneo.
[ | ]Okinawa
The Marines in action of Kunishi Ridge are unable to advance and suffer heavy casualties. The 1st Division, already short of men, is integrated with the 8th Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division. The elimination of the Japanese positions on Mount Yaeju and Mount Yuza by the XXIV Corps goes on slowly.
Damaged in a collision in the Okinawa area is the US destroyer escort O'Flaherty (DE-340).
[ | ]Pacific
- The US submarine Sea Dog (SS-401) sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Koan Maru (884t) south of Mikurajima.
- The Japanese freighter No.2 Tanshin Maru is sunk by marine casualty near Malay peninsula.
- The Japanese merchant cargo ship Heiryu Maru (1224t) sinks after colliding with submerged wreck southwest of Shinshin Island, Korea.
- The Japanese cargo vessel Junkawa Maru is sunk by mine off Surabaia, Sumatra.
| ]Philippines
On Luzon in the north of the island, Filipino guerrillas seize Cervantes. The US 37th Division pushes on in the Cagayan valley, eliminating a Japanese strongpoint about 3 miles from Santiago, near Cabanatuan.
[ | ]Images from June 15, 1945
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