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.
• The Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser No. 50 is sunk by the US submarine Bluefish off Malaya.

Images from July 9, 1945

9 July 1945. Photo of Guard of Honour from the Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) drawn up in front of the Hotel de Wereld, Wageningen, where General Blaskowitz agreed to surrender terms offered by General Foulkes

Scots Honor Guard in Wageningen

Balikpapan, Borneo - 9 July 1945. Battle weary troops of 2/33 Infantry Bn, watching Lt F Hodgkinson, 7 Military History Field Team, sketching troops resting by the roadside on Milford Highway.

Sketching Resting Troops

TBM Avengers and SB2C Helldivers from Essex Air Group 83 dropping bombs on Hakodate, Japan, July 1945

Carrier Group Bombing Hakodate

Damage at Baguio, Philippines, July, 1945

Damage at Baguio