Air Operations, CBI
CHINA- 8 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 100 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack road, rail, and river facilties and traffic associated with the Japanese withdrawal from French Indochina and southern and eastern China.
- FEAF B-25s attack Itu Aba Island.
- FEAF B-25s attack the airfield at Tinghai.
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]Air Operations, East Indies
XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the following airfields on Borneo: Oelin, Sengkawang, Tabanio, and Trombol.
[ | ]Air Operations, Japan
- FEAF B-25s attack the Nakatsu airfield on Kyushu and a convoy in Tsutu Bay.
- 7 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack the Kataoka naval base with incendiary bombs.
- During the night 127 73rd Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Matsuyama. 97 313th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Tokuyama. 124 314th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s attack Omuta. 2 B-29s attack targets of opportunity.
- 1 B-29 is lost.
| ]Air Operations, Korea
FEAF B-25s attack the port area at Pusan.
[ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
- XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack defenses and troops on Negros.
- XIII Bomber Command B-25s and XIII Fighter Command fighter-bombers support US 8th Army ground forces on Luzon.
- The 13th Air Force assumes responsibility for all air operations throughout the Philippines and East Indies.
| ]Britain, Politics
The election results begin to be announced. The Labor party garners 393 seats to 213 for the Conservatives with 31 going to minor parties while the popular vote was 47.8 percent Labor to 39.8 Conservative. It is a massive victory for the Labor Party and a terrible defeat for Churchill's Conservatives. Attlee becomes prime minister. The reason for the Conservative defeat, despite Churchill's war record is that they have failed to convince the electorate that they would be active and original enough to prevent any return to the conditions of the 1930s when the Conservative governments did too little, it is felt, to mitigate the economic effects of the world depression and failed to stand up to Hitler. In the war years, too, it has mostly been the Labor politicians who have been responsible for the government departments charged with running the rationing system and organizing industry and it is felt that they have done this in a way that has benefitted the people in ways apart from helping the war Attlee becomes the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense; Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton; President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps; Lord President, Herbert Morrison; Lord Chancellor, W. Jowitt.
[ | ]Diplomatic Relations
President Truman issues a statement from Potsdam, Germany. The Potsdam declaration orders the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces and specifies that Japan will maintain sovereignty only over its four main home islands, and will be occupied under the direction of a supreme Allied commander until the time that a stable and peaceful postwar government can be established. The Japanese people will not be punished, although Japanese war criminals will be prosecuted. The role of the Japanese emperor in postwar Japan is left unsaid, although the language of the declaration refers to a government that will be "established, in accordance with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people." The declaration promises "the complete and utter destruction of Japan" if the declaration is rejected.
The JCS recommends to President Truman that the United States resist Soviet demands for concessions that would extend Soviet influence and control farther into Europe.
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Indian Ocean
The first kamikaze attack on the British East Indies Fleet is made off Malaya. The escort carrier Ameer is damaged and the minesweeper Vestal is sunk.
[ | ]Marianas
The US heavy cruiser Indianapolis (CA-35) delivers a lethal consignment enough uranium-235 to make the first atomic bomb to Tinian air base. A USAAF bomber unit, the 509th Composite Group, has been specially created and trained for the deployment of the atomic bomb against Japan.
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The US destroyer Lowry (DD-770) is damaged by an explosion in the Philippine Sea.
[ | ]Images from July 26, 1945
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