Air Operations, CBI

• 21 14th Air Force P-51s attack transportation targets at various locations. Chinese Army ground forces recapture Liuchow Airdome.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-24s and B-25s attack the Balikpapan area.
• B-24s attack the Limboeng airfield on Celebes/Limboeng and the Trombol airfield on Borneo.
• During the night 868th Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s attack an airfield near Soerabaja Strait.

Air Operations, Formosa

V Bomber Command B-24s attack a sugar refinery at Tanchi.

Air Operations, Japan

• 64 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack industrial targets in Osaka.
• 60 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an aircraft factory at Kagamigahara.
• 109 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack the Osaka arsenal.
• 31 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an aircraft factory at Akashi.
• 50 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an aircraft factory at Eitoku.
• 58 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack the Nagoya arsenal.
• 29 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an industrial plant at Nagoya.
• 25 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an aircraft factory at Kagamigahara.
• 57 B-29s attack various secondary targets and targets of opportunity.
• 6 B-29s are lost in the day's attacks.
• 15th Fighter Group P-51 escorts down a Ki-61 'Tony' fighter and an A6M Zero over the Nagoya area during the late morning.
• During the night 33 B-29s from the 315th Very Heavy Bombt Wing’s 16th Very Heavy Bomb Group make their unit’s combat debut with an attack against oil-industry targets in Yokkaichi.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack Japanese Army troops concentrations and support US 6th Army and Filipino guerrilla 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.
• VMF(N)-533 F6Fs down an E13A 'Jake' reconnaissance plane and an A6M2-N 'Rufe' fighter-bomber off Okinawa at 0125 and 0205 hours, respectively.

Air Operations, Pacific

Radar-equipped B-29 Superfortresses launch a series of night raids against Japanese oil refineries. This is the first of a series which will continue until August.

China

Chinese troops take Liuchow airfield.

Pacific

• The US motor minesweeper YMS-39 is sunk by a mine in the Balikpapan area of Borneo. Damaged by a mine in the same area and later sunk by US forces is the motor minesweeper YMS-365.
• The US seaplane tender Suisun (AVP-53) is damage in a collision in the Okinawa area.

Philippines

On Luzon the parachute battalion dropped near Aparri joins up with the US 37th Div, which takes over command both of the parachute battalion and of the task force sent north earlier and of the guerrillas operating in the area.

Ryukyu Islands

Marine units land on Kume Island, where a new radar station is installed.

War Crimes

Allied lawyers discuss War Crimes Trial procedures in London.

World Affairs

The San Francisco Conference of the United Nations comes to an end. The Charter of the United Nations is signed by the representatives of the 50 countries taking part, but is not ratified until October 24. Truman pleads with the signatories to translate the 'lofty words' of the Charter into 'worthy deeds'.

Images from June 26, 1945

Stanoje Simic, Ambassador to the United States, member of the Delegation from Yugoslavia, signing the Charter at a ceremony held at the Veterans' War Memorial Building on 26 June.

Signing the UN Charter

Loading 1000lb bomb on a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 201st Mexican FS Porac Airstrip Philippine Islands – 26 June 1945

Loading 1000lb Bomb on a P-47

An Australian infantry company's signalling position on 26 June 1945, Battle of Labuan

Australian infantry company's signalling position

Avro Lancastrian, Aries, RCAF, 26 June 1945. (LAC)

Avro Lancastrian