Chronology of World War II

June 1945

Wednesday, June 27th

Air Operations, Carolines

VII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Truk Atoll.

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Air Operations, East Indies

  • FEAF B-24s attack the Limboeng and Mandai airfields on Celebes and oil facilities and shore defenses at Balikpapan.
  • B-25s attack warehouses and port facilities at Balikpapan.
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Air Operations, Japan

  • 318th Fighter Group P-47s attack targets on several islands south of Kyushu.
  • During the night 29 505th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Hagi, Kobe, and Niigata harbors.
  • 5 6th Night Fighter Squadron P-61s attack the Wan airfield on Kikai Shima and shipping near Amami Gunto.
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Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets and support US 6th Army and Filipino guerrilla forces on Luzon.

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Air Operations, Ryukyus

  • US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
  • 318th Fighter Group P-47s attack targets in the Sakishima Islands.
  • A VMF(N)-542 F6F downs an F1M 'Pete' reconnaissance plane off Okinawa at 2330 hours.
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Czechoslovakia, Home Front

Former puppet President of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, Dr Emil Hacha, dies in a Prague prison hospital at the age of 73, while awaiting trial.

Pacific

  • The US destroyer Caldwell (DD-605) is damage by a mine in the Brunei Bay area of Borneo.
  • The Japanese submarine I-165 is sunk by US naval land-bases aircraft (VPB-142) in the Central Pacific area.
  • The Japanese submarine chaser CHA-2 is sunk by the US submarine Blueback (SS-326) in the Java Sea.
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    Philippines

    On Luzon units of the 37th Division, US I Corps, reaches Aparri, on the north coast. The Japanese, mostly gathered on teh Sierra Madre in the northeast of the island, are cut off and reduced to a pitiful condition for lack of supplies and medical care. With the occupation by the Americans of the whole of the Cagayan valley, the campaign for the recapture of Luzon is now virtually over.

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    Soviet Union

    Stalin is appointed to the new rank of 'Generalissimo'.

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    Images from June 27, 1945

    Keeping Communications Intact


    Keeping Communications Intact

    Aboard an LST


    Aboard an LST

    Refugees in Berlin


    Refugees in Berlin

    Crossing a Bamboo Footbridge


    Crossing a Bamboo Footbridge
[June 26th - June 28th]