Air Operations, CBI

• 6 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 4 81st Fighter Group P-47s attack a bridge and trains near Sinsiang.

• More than 60 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack Japanese forces witdrawing through Don Son, Haiphong, and Tourane, as well as in the China-French Indochina border region.

Air Operations, Asia

Sgt Simon Eden of the RAF, aged 20 and son of the British Foreign Secretary, is missing in action over Burma.

Air Operations, East Indies

FEAF B-24s and B-25s, with a small number of Royal Australian Air Force bombers, attack various targets on Borneo and support Australian Army ground forces around Balikpapan.

Air Operations, Formosa

• V Bomber Command B-24s attack the airfield at Shinchiku.
• B-25s attack Koto Island and an alcohol plant at Getsubi.
• V Fighter Command P-38s attack an oil installation.

Air Operations, Japan

• More than 100 VII Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack airfields and nearby targets on Honshu.
• 8 USAAF fighters are lost against the most aggressive opposition encountered over Japan by the VII Fighter Command.
• 15th and 506th Fighter group P-51s down 6 Japanese Navy fighters near Honshu's Hyakurigahara and Tokorozawa airfields between 1405 and 1505 hours.
• A 318th Fighter Group P-47 down a Ki-44 'Tojo' fighter at 1640 hours.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command P-38s and P-51s support US 8th Army and Filipino guerrilla forces on Luzon.

Philippines

On Mindanao fighting is still going on in the Sarangani Bay area, in which Filipino guerrillas under American leadership take part.

Images from July 8, 1945

8 July 1945, wrecked and burnt out German shipping in the bomb-battered docks at Hamburg

Shipping Damage at Hamburg

8 July 1945 saw the return to Leningrad of the Leningrad Guards' Infantry Corps. 3 divisions entered the city in 3 columns via Stachek Prospekt, Moskovsky Prospekt, and along the embankments of the River Neva. Along the processional route the victors passed thru arches of triumph and the residents of Leningrad met the soldiers with flowers, embraces and music. As those who took part in the parade recalled, 'We were walking on a carpet covered with flowers.'

Victory Parade in Leningrad

Grounded Dutch submarine O-19, 8 July 1945, Ladd Reef, South China Sea (US Navy photo)

Grounded Dutch Submarine O-19

Tarakan Island 8 July 1945 - Australian and Philippino sick and wounded personnel of the deck on landing ship, tank LST-132 for movement out to 2/2 hospital ship SS Wanganella

Transferring Sick and Wounded to a Hospital Ship