Air Operations, CBI
CHINA
- 7 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 32 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack various targets.
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Air Operations, East Indies - FEAF B-24s attack the Langoan and Limboeng airfields on Celebes, the Manggar area, and Oelin and Tabanio.
- B-24s, B-25s, and XIII Fighter Command P-38s based at the Sanga Sanga airfield in the Sulu Archipelago cover the Balikpapan bombardment flotilla at about the extremity of their range.
- In the evening, after the retirement of the XIII Fighter Command combat air patrol, 5 to 7 Japanese Navy land-based torpedo planes attack the Balikpapan bombardment flotilla. No damage results and 3 of the aircraft are downed by anti-aircraft fire.
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Air Operations, Formosa V Bomber Command B-24s attack a fuel plant at Keishu.
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Air Operations, Japan - 39 318th Fighter Group P-47s attack Tokuno Shima and shipping at Koniya.
- During the night, 138 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Okayama.
- 141 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Sasebo.
- 91 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Moji.
- 117 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Nobeoka.
- 5 B-29s attack other targets.
- 1 B-29 is lost in the evening's action.
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Air Operations, Philippines V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack defenses and troop concentrations, 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.
- 26 318th Fighter Group P-47s attack targets in Sakishima Islands.
- A VMF(N)-533 F6F downs an E13A 'Jake' reconnaissance plane off Okinawa at 0105 hours.
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Air Operations, Pacific B-29s drop nearly 3,000 tons of incendiaries on the Sasebo naval base.
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Dutch East Indies Australian units capture Kuala Belait.
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Pacific Mines sink the Japanese merchant cargo ship Daikokusan Maru (692t) off Moji, Japan.
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Philippines Gen MacArthur announces the effective recapture of Luzon from the Japanese. Although organized Japanese resistance has collapsed, there is much mopping-up work to do. US forces have lost 7,933 men killed and 32,732 wounded retaking Luzon, as opposed to 192,000 Japanese dead.
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Poland, Politics A new Polish government is formed in Warsaw.
Images from June 28, 1945
Last of 18,482 B-24 Liberator Bombers To Be Built
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Tarakan Airstrip
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PT Boat Patrol
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Seria, British North Borneo
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