Air Operations, CBI

• 11 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 2 14th Air Force P-51s attack a Japanese Army headquarters near Wuchang, motor-vehicle convoys in the Siang-Chiang valley, and targets around Sienning.
• More than 40 fighter-bombers attack Japanese troops moving through northern French Indochina and eastern China.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command P-38s attack targets on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

FEAF B-25s and 32 319th Medium Bomb Group A-26s attack shipping at Naze-Ko.

Burma

Heavy fighting takes place along the Sittang River as the Japanese continue their counterthrusts.

Japan, Home Front

US radio broadcasts call on Japan to surrender or face destruction.

Pacific

• US Navy planes attack shipping in Tsushima Strait and off Fusan, Korea.
• The US attack transport Marathon (APA-200) is damaged by a piloted torpedo in the Okinawa area.

Images from July 21, 1945

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, inspects tanks of the 'Desert Rats' from a half-track vehicle which moved slowly along the long line of troops and armour, during the British Victory parade in Berlin, 21 July 1945.

British Victory Parade in Berlin

A salute by 25-pounder guns of 3rd Royal Horse Artillery on the arrival of Winston Churchill at the British Victory Parade, 21 July 1945

A Salute by 25-pounder Guns

American trucks returning part of $500 million worth of Florentine artwork looted by Germans, Piazzo Dei Signoria, Florence, Italy, 21 Jul 1945 (US National Archives)

Returning Part of Stolen Artwork

Gunners from 8 Battery, D Troop, 2/4th Field Regiment fire a Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short at Japanese positions at Balikpapan, Borneo

Shelling Japanese Positions