Air Oprations, CBI

• 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 14th Air Force P-51s attack motor-vehicle convoys near Hengyang and Wuchang, rail facilities near Changsha, and Japanese troops withdrawing through southern and eastern China.

• 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 51st Fighter Group P-51s attack rail facilities near Vinh and Phu Thuong, a power plant near Vinh, and Japanese troops withdrawing through northern French Indochina.

Air Oprations, East Indies

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack Togian Island.
• XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack targets on Borneo and Celebes.

Air Oprations, Japan

• Nearly 100 VII Fighter Command fighter-bombers based on Iwo Jima attack 7 airfields on Honshu.
• 8 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack the airfield at Matusuwa.

Air Oprations, Philippines

• V Bomber Command B-24s, B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army ground forces and attack various targets on Luzon.
• P-38s attack targets on Palawan.

Pacific

The Japanese minesweeper No. 39 is sunk by the US submarine Threadfin (SS-410) in the Yellow Sea.

Philippines

On Mindanao American units land on Balut Island, at the entrance of Sarangani Bay, and wipe out the small Japanese garrison.

United States, Home Front

Congress votes to increase Export-Import Banks lending ceiling from $700 million to $3,500 million. The Bretton Woods Bill passes with the Senate vote being 61-16.

Images from July 20, 1945

Balikpapan Area, Borneo, 20 July 1945. Members of Field Security Service (EE) 7 Division, examining a Japanese 120MM anti-aircraft gun captured on Abed Feature, Milford Highway.

Examining a Japanese Anti-aircraft Gun

Maj-Gen Frank Parks, Gen George Patton, Colonel W. H. Kyle, J. J. McCloy, H. H. Bundy, and US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, reviewing US 2nd Armored Division, Berlin, Germany, 20 Jul 1945.

2nd Armored Division in Review

Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Harry Truman, Henry Stimson, Omar Bradley, and others during the raising of a US flag over Berlin, Germany, 20 July 1945.

Raising US Flag over Berlin

Sepinggang Area, Borneo 20 July 1945. A mortar crew of 2/31 Infantry Battalion, despite the rain, laying down a barrage on Japanese positions in the area.

Laying Down a Barrage on Japanese Positions