Air Operations, CBI

• 23 90th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the main supply depot at Canton.
• 3 341st Medium Bombardment Group B-25s attack supply convoys in the Siang Chiang valley.
• 43 14th Air Force P-38s and P-51s attack airfields, coastal shipping, and transportation targets in northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack barracks at Tandjung and warehouses at Donggala.

Air Operations, Formosa

• 26 V Bomber Command B-24s attack oil stores at Toshien.
• 9 3rd Light Bomb Group A-26s attack a sugar refinery at Taiharo.
• V Fighter Command P-51s attack targets along the western coast.

Air Operations, Japan

• More than 50 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the Kanoya airfield on Kyushu, a town on Kyushu, and the Tokuno Shima airfield in the Amami Islands.
• More than 70 41st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 32 319th Medium Bomb Group A-26s attack the Chiran airfield on Kyushu.
• 2 A-26s attack the seaplane base at Ibusuki.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers sweep Kyushu.
• 4 28th Composite Bomb Group B-25s strafe a freighter during an anti-shipping sweep in the Kurile Islands, but 1 B-25 is lost.
• During the night 115 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Utsunomiya. 123 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Ichinomiya. 92 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Tsuruga. 123 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Uwajima. 53 315th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack oil-industry targets at Kawasaki. 11 B-29s attack targets of opportunity. 2 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the Byu and Miyazaki airfield on Kyushu.
• 3 B-29s are lost.

Air Operations, Philippines

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack troop concentrations on Negros.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army ground forces on Luzon.
• Following a virtual rain of napalm over the past several days, a Japanese defensive pocket at Kiangan, Luzon, is easily overrun by US 8th Army ground troops.
• The 1st Marine Aircraft Wing conducts its last major support operation of World War II when its aircraft cover a landing by a US 8th Army infantry division in southern Mindanao.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

47 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack an airfield in the Amami Islands after being diverted because of bad weather over their primary target. A VMF(N)-543 F6F downs a G3M 'Nell' bomber off Okinawa at 0420 hours.

Diplomatic Relations

Hirohito appoints former Prime Minister Prince Fuminaro Konoye as a secret peace emissary in Moscow. The Russians refuse to receive him.

Dutch East Indies

There is an Allied landing near Andus. Australian troops take Maradi in the north of the island.

Pacific

The Japanese home islands of Shikoku and Honshu are heavily bombed.

Images from July 12, 1945

The T2A tanker Neches (AO-47) refueling Shangri-La (CV-38) and Wisconsin (BB-64), 12 July 1945

Refueling At Sea

The President at lunch with members of the crew of the USS Augusta, 12 July 1945

President Truman At Lunch on the Augusta