Chronology of World War II

July 1945

Friday, July 27th


Air Operations, CBI

CHINA
  • 13 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 50 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack road, rail, and river traffic throughout northern French Indochina and southern and eastern China. Chinese Army ground forces recapture the airfield at Tanchuk.
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Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Pontianak airfield on Borneo.

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Air Operations, Japan

  • More than 60 FEAF B-24s attack marshalling yards at Kagoshima, and their 50 P-51 escorts attack numerous targets of opportunity in the Kagoshima area.
  • More than 150 FEAF P-47s attack bridges, a tunnel, a power plant, and numerous industrial and communications targets across Kyushu.
  • During the night 24 504th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Shimonoseki Strait, Fukawa Bay, and off 4 port cities.
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Air Operations, Pacific

B-29s drop 660,000 leaflets by night over 11 Japanese cities, warning inhabitants to flee before selected targets are destroyed. By August 5, 35 cities have been subjected to this novel, and highly effective, form of psychological warfare. 16 of the cities are actually bombed.

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Britain, Politics

Attlee immediately flies to Potsdam to join Stalin and Truman in the Big Three conference.

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China

The first Chinese forces enter Kweilin. Fighting for possession of the town continues until the end of the month. Other Chinese forces capture Tanchuk airfield.

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Pacific

  • More extensive air operations are carried out against Japan by the British and American carriers.
  • The US cargo ship Ganymede (AK-104) is damaged in a collision in the Philippine Islands area.
  • The Japanese transport No. 176 is damaged by US Army aircraft off southern Kyushu, Japan.
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Images from July 27, 1945

San Matao, California, Friday, July 27, 1945

San Matao, California, Friday, July 27, 1945


San Matao, California

The senior Soviet officers and the US Chiefs of Staff meeting during the Potsdam Conference, 27 July 1945

The Potsdam Conference


The Potsdam Conference

Crew of a submarine of the British East Indies Fleet hold water polo match. 27 July 1945, HMS Trident. Seamen and stokers of the Trident hold a water polo match, arranged by the commanding officet to settle the argumentas to which was the better team.

Water Polo Match


Water Polo Match

Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI, KL354 ‘R’, of No. 356 Squadron RAF, about to be 'bombed-up' on the newly-established airstrip at Brown’s West Island (Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean) for the Squadron’s first operational mission 27 July 1945

First Operational Mission


First Operational Mission

[July 26th - July 28th]