Air Operations, CBI
CHINA
- More than 80 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack Japanese forces withdrawing through northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China.
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Air Operations, East Indies Supplementing Royal Australian Air Force efforts, FEAF B-24s and B-25s, and XIII Fighter Command P-38s support Australian Army ground forces in the Balikpapan area.
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Air Operations, Formosa V Bomber Command B-24s mount strong attacks against the airfields at Matsuyama and Taihoku.
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Air Operations, Japan Between 0700 and 0800 hours, 124 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Chiba. 123 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Akashi. 133 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Shimuzu. 131 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Kofu. 59 315th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an oil refinery at Maruzen. 4 B-29s attack targets of opportunity. 4 B-29s are lost.
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Air Operations, Philippines V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack Japanese ground forces and support US 8th Army and Filipino guerrilla forces in several areas of Luzon.
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Pacific - Many small Japanese vessels are sunk or damaged by USN Privateer patrol
bombers, which are modified B-24s, in the Yellow Sea off southern Japan.
- The US submarine Trepang (SS-412) sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship No.2 Koun Maru (606t) off south Hokkaido.
- Mines sink the Japanese merchant cargo ships Meizan Maru (5480t) at the mouth of Mokpo harbor and Nachizan Maru (880t) in Kammon Strait.
- Over the next few days, US carrier aircraft attack Japanese airfields on the Tokyo plain. A total of 173 Japanese machines are destroyed, utterly overwhelmed by more than 1,000 US fighter-bombers. Japan still has huge numbers of aircraft on the mainland, although many are committed to suicide missions. Japan also has an appalling deficit of trained pilots, and veteran US aviators easily pick off young crews with only a few hours' flying experience.
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Images from July 7, 1945
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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Baseball Game between Two Army Air Fields
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Damaged TBM Avenger
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Gate at Oak Ridge
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