Air Operations, Asia
300 planes of the Far East Air Force, including some new Invader fast bombers, again hit air bases and shipping in the Shanghai area.
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]Air Operations, Carolines
Operating temporarily from Guam, the 20th Air Force’s 414th Fighter Group, in P-47s, attacks the Japanese Navy base in the Truk Atoll.
[]Air Operations, CBI
CHINA- 16 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and 8 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack bridges at Lohochai and Sincheng, supply convoys in the Siang-Chiang valley, and rail yards at Siaokan.
- More than 50 fighter-bombers attack Japanese forces withdrawing through northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China.
- 22 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based on Okinawa attack Chiang Wan.
- 37 FEAF B-25s based on Okinawa attack an oil installation at Shanghai and a Japanese destroyer on the Whangpoo River.
- 37 319th Medium Bomb Group A-26s attack the airfield at Tachang.
- FEAF P-47s and P-51s based on Ie Shima and Okinawa attack factories and rail shops in Shanghai and Japanese warships and gunboats on the Whangpoo River.
- During the night 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack the airfield at Tinghai and the airfield on Chusan Island.
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]Air Operations, Japan
More than 100 VII Fighter Command fighter-bombers based on Iwo Jima attack rail facilities, airfields, and tactical targets on Honshu. A 21st Fighter Group P-51 downs an A6M Zero near Nara at 1345 hours.
[ | ]Air Operations, Korea
During the night several 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Pusan. Also, in the longest B-29 combat mission of the war, 20th Air Force B-29s stage through Iwo Jima to sow mines off Najin. Mines are also sown in the Pusan and Masan areas.
[ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
Despite bad weather, V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command P-38s and P-51s complete more than 30 effective sorties against targets on Luzon.
[ | ]Pacific
- During the night 9 US destroyers penetrate Tokyo Bay under cover of a storm and attack a convoy.
- The Allied task forces are resupplied at sea in the greatest such operation of the war.
- TF92 bombards Paramushiro in the Kuriles.
| ]Images from July 22, 1945
Australian Army Jeep Train |
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Curious Native Okinawan Boys |
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