Air Operations, Asia

The Far East Air Force bombs 4 air bases in the Shanghai area.

Air Operations, CBI

• 20 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 20 14th Air Force P-47s and P-51s attack rail yards at Shihkiachwang.
• 7 B-25s and 2 P-51s attack motor-vehicle convoys in the Siang-Chiang valley and bridges near Yoyang.
• FEAF B-25s attack Itu Aba Island.
• 37 fighter-bombers attack various targets across northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China.

Air Operations, East Indies

• 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack the Jesselton airfield on Borneo.
• XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack suicide boats hidden near Sandakan.

Air Operations, Japan

• More than 90 FEAF fighter-bombers attack targets throughout the Nagoya area.
• VII Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack numerous targets on Honshu.
• 15th and 506th Fighter group P-51s down a D3A 'Val' dive bomber and 8 fighters over the Osaka area between 1005 and 1100 hours.
• During the night 127 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Fukui. 126 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Hitachi. 91 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Choshi. 126 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Okazaki. 83 315th Very Heavy Bomb B-29s attack oil facilities at Amagasaki. 7 B-29s attack targets of opportunity. 6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines off Kobe, Osaka, and several other port cities.
• 3 B-29s are lost.

Air Operations, Korea

During the night 6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines off Wonsan.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command P-38s attack troops and defenses on Luzon and Palawan.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

A VMF(N)-533 F6F night-fighter downs an A6M Zero off Okinawa at 0215 hours.

Burma

Japanese units in Burma begin an all-out effort to break out of their encircled position.

Pacific

The US destroyer Thatcher (DD-514) is hit and badly damaged in a suicide attack off Okinawa.

United States, Politics

(when?) Congress ratifies the Bretton Woods monetary agreement.

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Images from July 19, 1945

HMS Mullion Cove, British hull repair ship. 19 July 1945, At Sea.

HMS Mullion Cove At Sea

President Harry S. Truman greeting Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the start of the third day of the Potsdam Conference in Germany. They are in the conference room at Cecilienhof Palace. 19 July 1945

Third Day of Potsdam Conference

Royal Visit to Northern Ireland. 19 July 1945, HM The King and Queen when they arrive at Royal Naval Air Station, Eglington, en route to Londonderry.

Royal Visit to Northern Ireland

British Naval Construction. 19 July 1945, Activities of the Naval Construction Staff at UNDEX, Underwater Explosives Department, Rosyth.

British Naval Construction