Air Operations, CBI

• 25 14th Air Force P-40s and P-51s attack troops and transportation targets at various locations.

• A 51st Fighter Group P-51 downs a Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter over the Vinh airfield at 1310 hours.

Air Operations, East Indies

42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack road targets around Balikpapan.

Air Operations, Formosa

V Bomber Command B-24s attack Shinchiku.

Air Operations, Japan

• 5 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kataoka with the aid of radar.
• 4 B-25s attack shipping and a fishery in the Kurile Islands.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers sweep Kyushu.
• A 3rd Air Commando Group P-51 downs a B5N 'Kate' torpedo bomber near the Kumamoto airfield on Kyushu at 1045 hours.
• During the night 6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in the Shimonoseki Strait and off Maizuru, Miyazu, and Obama Island.
• 2 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the Byu and Miyazaki airfields on Kyushu.

Air Operations, Korea

During the night several 6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines off Najin and Pusan—the war’s first such mission to this area.

Air Operations, Philippines

• V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack troop concentrations on Luzon.
• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack troop concentrations on Negros.

Canada, Home Front

In the General Election the results: Liberals, 119 seats; Progressive Conservatives, 65; C.C.F., 28; Others, 33. Prime Minister Mackenzie King is defeated at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.(?) He is re-elected at by-election on August 6, 1945.

Germany

There is the first meeting of the Inter-Allied Council for Berlin. The Soviets agree to turn over administration of the allocated areas to the British and Americans who have themselves made arrangements to allocate some of their sectors to the French.

Philippines

Over the next 2 days on Luzon thousands of napalm bombs are dropped on the Japanese in the pockets on the Sierra Madre and in the Kiangan area. The Americans are tightening the screw on the last Japanese forces.

United States, Preparations

2,118 4-engined bombers of the 8th Air Force are redeployed from Britain to the US en route for the Pacific. The operaton is completed in 51 days.

Images from July 11, 1945

Douglas C-47 Skytrain spraying DDT over Okinawa 11 July 11 1945 (NARA)

Spraying DDT over Okinawa

British Troops enter Berlin 11 July 1945: General view of the ceremony showing Lt-Gen Sir Ronald Weeks taking the salute as the British Flag is unfurled in front of the Victory column

British Troops enter Berlin

A Group of Allied Generals (left to right) General Sir Ronald Weeks, representing Montgomery; General F L Parks, USA; Major General Baronov, Russia; General Beauchonne, France and Maj-Gen L O Cyne commanding British troops in Berlin

A Group of Allied Generals