Air Operations, CBI

• 2 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 5 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack several targets.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-24s and US Navy and Marine Corps carrier-based aircraft attack Balikpapan.
• B-25s attack various targets in northeastern Borneo.

Air Operations, Marianas

The XXI Bomber Command’s Guam-based 502nd Very Heavy Bomb Group, in B-29s, makes its combat debut with an attack against the bypassed Japanese base at Rota Island.

Air Operations, Philippines

• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack various targets and support US 6th Army and Filipino guerrilla forces on Luzon.
• As the Luzon Campaign is formally concluded at midnight, the US 8th Army is made responsible for operations throughout the Philippine Islands and the US 6th Army headquarters withdraws from operations to begin planning for its part in the invasion of Japan.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft support US 10th Army ground forces on Okinawa and attack airfields in the Sakishima Islands.
• A VMF(N)-533 F6F downs an E13A 'Jake' reconnaissance plane near Okinawa at 0105 hours.

China

Chungchin on the Indochinese border falls to the Chinese, and the Chinese forces continue their advance into Indochina itself.

Okinawa

Mopping up of the island is finished. 8,975 Japanese are killed and 2,902 captured.

Pacific

• 9 US submarines which have penetrated the heavily mined Tsushima Straits sink 31 ships in the Sea of Japan during June.
• The US destroyer Smith (DD-378) is damaged by coastal gunfire in the Balikpapan area of Borneo. The US minesweeper YMS-314 is damaged by a mine in the same area.
• The Japanese destroyer Nara sinks after hitting a mine in the Sea of Japan.

Philippines

The Luzon campaign is officially declared ended. Mopping up of the remaining Japanese forces, still about 23,000 men in the Sierra Madre and the Kiangan-Bontoc area, will be carried out by the US 8th Army, while the 6th Army is reorganized for its next task, Operation OLYMPIC, the invasion of Japan. Mopping up is also still going on on Mindanao, and continues until the end of the war.

Images from June 30, 1945

Battle of Cherbourg - German prisoners are marched away watched by US soldiers on 30 June 1945

German Soldiers from Cherbourg

Royal Navy in Great Oslo Parade - 30 June 1945. Contingents from HM ships HMS Bellona and HMS Diadem took part in the parade of Allied representatives in Oslo when King Haakon made a speech thanking them for the liberation of Norway.

Royal Navy in Great Oslo Parade

The cruiser HMAS Shropshire bombarding Japanese positions at Balikpapan, Borneo, on 30 June 1945.

Bombarding Balikpapan, Borneo

Off Balikpapan, Borneo - 30 June 1945. The 4-inch guns laying down a barrage during the bombardment of Japanese positions by the RAN crusier, HMAS Shropshire. Balikpapan was heavily bombarded before the Oboe 2 Operation landing of members of the 7th Division the next day.

Bombarding Balikpapan, Borneo