Air Operations, CBI

• V Fighter Command P-47s attack shipping and shore targets along the northern China coast.

• 25 51st Fighter Group P-38s and P-51s attack dumps and transportation targets, mainly in northern French Indochina and in the China–Indochina frontier area.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack several targets on Borneo and Celebes.

Air Operations, Formosa

3rd Light Bomb Group A-26s attack a refinery and warehouses at Taiharo.

Air Operations, Japan

• V Fighter Command P-51s attack rail targets in western Kyushu. VII Fighter Command fighter-bombers based on Iwo Jima abort in the face of bad weather while on their way to attack targets on Honshu. Against no aerial opposition whatsoever, Task Force 38 carrier aircraft launched from only 80 miles offshore mount 1,381 effective sorties against hitherto untouched airfields and other targets on Hokkaido and northern Honshu.
• Few Japanese aircraft are located at their dispersal sites on the ground, but the carrier aircraft are able to attack numerous shipping targets and claim the sinking of small ships and landing craft amounting to an estimated 50,000 tons. Also, without opposition from the air, 3 US 3rd Fleet battleships, 2 cruisers, and 9 destroyers are able to mount an unprecedented bombardment of iron plants at 2 locations. VF-85 F4Us down a G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea at 1245 hours, and damage another bomber.

Air Operations, Philippines

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s support US 8th Army ground forces on Negros.
• V Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army ground forces on Luzon.

Europe

Gen Eisenhower announces the closure of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) and eases some of the restrictions on private contact between American soldiers and German civilians.

Occupied Germany

The ban on troop fraternization with Germans is lifted in the US and British zones of Germany and Austria.

Pacific

• TF 38 launches a devastating attack on ferry traffic between Honshu and Hokkaido. 37 steamers and 6 warships are sunk in 2 days. Japanese ships sunk in the day's action include the destroyer Tachibana and the coast defense vessels Nos. 65 and 74. 3 battleships, the South Dakota (BB-57), Indiana (BB-58) and Massachusetts (BB-59), from Rear-Adm J. F. Shafroth's group, lead a bombardment of the steel works at Kamaishi, north of Tokyo.
• The Japanese submarine I-351 is sunk by the US submarine Bluefish (SS-222) off Borneo.

Images from July 14, 1945

Battleships and heavy cruisers steam in column on 14 July 1945 as they approach the Japanese coast for the bombardment of the iron works at Kamaishi. The USS Indiana (BB 58) is the nearest ship, followed by USS Massachusetts (BB 59) the cruisers USS Chicago (CA 136) and USS Quincy (CA 71).

Ready to Bombard Japanese Coast

The Augusta and her escort in the Channel, 14 July 1945

The Augusta and Her Escort

Berlin Tiergarten Strasse camouflaged airplane assembly hall, 14 July 1945

Camouflaged Airplane Assembly Hall

Trinity Gadget at Base of Tower, 14 July 1945

Trinity Gadget at Base of Tower