Air Operations, CBI

• 7 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 32 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack various targets.

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.

Air Operations, Formosa

V Bomber Command B-24s attack a fuel plant at Keishu.

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.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack defenses and troop 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.
• 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.

Air Operations, Pacific

B-29s drop nearly 3,000 tons of incendiaries on the Sasebo naval base.

Dutch East Indies

Australian units capture Kuala Belait.

Pacific

The Japanese destroyer Enoki sinks after it hits a mine in the Sea of Japan.

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.

Poland, Politics

A new Polish government is formed in Warsaw.

Images from June 28, 1945

B-24M-30-FO 44-51928, the very last of 18,482 B-24 Liberator bombers to be built is rolled out at Willow Run, Ford’s Willow Run Aircraft Plant, located between Bellview and Ypsilanti, Michigan, 28 June 1945.

Last of 18,482 B-24 Liberator Bombers To Be Built

Tarakan Island - 28 June 1945. Tarakan Airstrip was repaired against almost hopeless odds by member os 1 and 8 Airfield Construction Squadrons, RAAF and AIF units. It was open3ed to fighter aircraft fot the first time on 28 June.

Tarakan Airstrip

Seria, British North Borneo. 28 June 1945. A PT boat patrol out from Brunei Bay on a twenty-two hour patrol during Allied invasion operations. These boats are capable of high speed.

PT Boat Patrol

Seria, British North Borneo. 28 June 1945. After capture of the area member of 2/58 Light Aid Detachment, attached to 20th Infantry Bde, were installed in a former British, then Japanese, workshop.

Seria, British North Borneo