Air Operations, CBI

• 5 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack 2 bridges in the Sinantien area.
• 14 14th Air Force P-38s and P-51s attack several bridges and transportation targets.

Air Operations, East Indies

• XIII Fighter Command P-38s support Australian Army and Royal Netherlands Army ground forces around Balikpapan.
• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack shipyards at Samarinda.
• 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s support Australian Army ground forces in the Brunei Bay area.

Air Operations, Formosa

• V Bomber Command B-24s attack airfields at Okaseki, Takao, and Toyohara.
• 3rd Light Bomb Group A-26s attack Karenko.

Air Operations, Japan

• 43 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the Omura airfield on Kyushu.
• 1 B-24 attacks Kikai Shima.
• More than 100 VII Fighter Command P-51s based on Iwo Jima attack tactical targets at several locations on Kyushu. 507th Fighter Group P-47s down 6 K5Y 'Willow' biplane trainers over Goshoura, Kyushu, at 1035 hours, and 4 K5Ys near Maki Shima at 1205 hours.
• 21st Fighter Group P-51s down 13 fighters over the Osaka area between 1245 and 1312 hours.
• During the night 123 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Sendai. 115 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Sakai. 108 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Wakayama. 129 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Gifu. 61 315th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack an oil refinery at Yokkaichi. 7 B-29s attack other targets. 29 6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Shimonseki Strait and off Nanao and Niigata.
• 3 B-29s are lost.
• The 315th Very Heavy Bomb Wing’s 331st Very Heavy Bomb Group makes is combat debut.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army and Filipino guerrilla forces on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

More than 50 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the airfield at Tokuno Shima.

Atlantic

The Brazilian cruiser Bahia is sunk by a mysterious explosion. 294 are killed.

China

Chinese forces recapture the Tanchuk air base.

Dutch East Indies

Dutch troops land north of Balikpapan completing encirclement of the bay.

Pacific

• The US motor minesweeper YMS-84 is sunk by a mine in the Balikpapan area of Borneo.
• Mines sink the Japanese cargo ship Nippu Maru outside Wakamatsu harbor.
• The Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser CHA-50 is sunk by the US submarine Bluefish off Malaya.

Images from July 9, 1945

Scots Honor Guard in Wageningen

Sketching Resting Troops

Carrier Group Bombing Hakodate

Damage at Baguio