Air Operations, CBI

• 30 14th Air Force P-38s and P-51s attack numerous targets in southern China and northern French Indochina.
• A party of USAAF officers arrives in Chungking from India to organize the newly created Army Air Forces, China Theater headquarters.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-24s attack defenses near Balikpapan, a seaplane base at Donggla, and the Boeloedowang and Limboeng airfield on Celebes.
• 1 B-24 crashes into a mountain.
• The Manggar airfield on Borneo is captured by Australian Army ground forces.

Air Operations, Formosa

20 V Bomber Command B-24s attack barracks at Toshien.

Air Operations, Japan

• 8 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kataoka naval base with the aid of radar.
• 161 VII Fighter Command P-51s attack the Yokosuka naval base, Imba, Kasumigaura, and Tsukuba.
• 35th Fighter Group P-51s sweep Kyushu.
• 2 15th Fighter Group P-51s down a biplane over the Kasumigaura airfield on Honshu at 1410 hours.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack Batan Island and various targets on Luzon.

Philippines

On Mindanao the US 24th Div organizes an amphibious expeditionary force to liberate Sarangani Bay, in the south of the island, south of Davao.

(5th?)MacArthur announces the liberation of the Philippines.

Images from July 4, 1945

Brigadier K W Eather, Commander 25 Infantry Brigade (1) and Maj-Gen E J Milford, General Officer commanding 7 Div (2) surveying the area from a forward observation post of 2/4 Field Regiment on Oxygen Feature during the Oboe 2 Operation

Balikpapan, Borneo, 4 July 1945

Picture taken on 4 July 1945 shows the entry of troops into Berlin of the 7th Armoured Division, led by the 11th Hussars, the famous 'Desert Rats' who had travelled with them from El Alamein, to Berlin, via Benghazi, Tripoli, Tunis, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Belgium and Holland. Major General L D Lyne CB, DSO, COG 7th Armoured Division and commander of the British forces in Berlin took the salute as his troops entered the city.

British Troops Enter Berlin

Inspecting a Japanese strongpoint on operator feature captured by members of 2/33 Infantry Battalion during the Oboe 2 Operation

Balikpapan, Borneo, 4 July 1945

Maj-Gen E J Milford, Brigadier K W Eather and Lt R M Lyall, inspecting Japanese strongpoints from forward observation post of 2/31 Infantry Battalion during Oboe 2 Operation

inspecting Japanese strongpoints