Air Operations, CBI

• 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.

Air Operations, East Indies

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack Amboina and Tolonoeoe islands.
• 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Jesselton.

Air Operations, Japan

• 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.

Air Operations, Philippines

V Fighter Command fighter-bombers attack targets on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

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.

France, Home Front

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

Pacific

• 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 Japanese submarine chaser No. 117 is sunk by the US submarine Hardhead (SS-365) off Java in the Dutch East Indies.

Images from July 23, 1945

Winston Churchill, President Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam conference, 23 July 1945

At the Potsdam Conference

The US Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King leaves the headquarters of US Ports and Bases in Bremen, Germany, 23 July 1945. Note old designation of this building

Admiral King in Bremen

Marshal Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), the former French chief-of-state during Nazi occupation of France, sits at his trial (23 July-14 August) in July 1945 in Paris

The Trial of Pétain

The chamber of the House of Commons, Westminster, destroyed in one of the heaviest Luftwaffe attacks on London, is being restored. Clearance of thousands of tons of rubble has commenced to make way for the new chamber which will be modelled on the style of the old, with Opposition facing the Government

House of Commons Being Restored