Chronology of World War II

July 1945

CHINA

8 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 100 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack airfields, stores, bridges, rail lines, troops, and other targets across vast areas of northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China.
11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s mount individual attacks against Tinghai.
FEAF B-25s attack Itu Aba Island.

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11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Miho and Saeki.
Individual B-24s attack the harbor area at Kure.
2 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack the Kurabu Cape airfield.
During the night 72 315th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack a coal-liquifaction plant at Ube.
Several 11th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Yonago.
6th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s stage through Iwo Jima to sow mines in Shimonoseki Strait.

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V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack targets on Luzon.

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VMF-351 carrier-based F4Us down a Ki-46 'Dinah' reconnaissance plane and a D4Y 'Judy' dive bomber at sea at 0625 and 1105 hours, respectively.

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The trial of Pétain opens at the Palais de Justice, Paris.

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The US submarine Barb (SS-220) lands US raiding forces on the east coast of Karafuto (an island located between Japan and mainland Asia). Once ashore, they blow up a Japanese train before escaping.
The US submarine Sea Poacher (SS-406) sinks the Japanese guardboat No.2 Kiri Maru between Onoosaki and Shoyasaki, Japan.
Mines sink the Japanese guardboat No.2 Taisho Maru off Chinhae, Korea, merchant tug Kaiko Maru and cargo ship Shoko maru off Niigata; merchant cargo ships No.1 Taiha Maru (6889t) and No.2 Taishin Maru (1152t) off Moji; No.6 Nissho Maru (642t) in Kammon Strait; Yamadori Maru (1152t) outside Wakamatsu harbor; merchant cargo ship No.2 Tsurukawa Maru (875t) off Wakamatsu; and merchant vessel Kocho Maru off Mutsure.
The Japanese submarine chaser No. CHA-117 is sunk by the US submarine Hardhead (SS-365) off Java in the Dutch East Indies.

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