Air Operations, CBI

• 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.

Air Operations, East Indies

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

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.

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.

Britain, Politics

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

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.

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.
• USAAF B-29-laid mines sink the Japanese army cargo ship Unten Maru (1025t) off Suo Nada; merchant cargo ships Maiko Maru (887t) off Kokushi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and No.55 Banshu Maru in Odo Strait, Shimonoseki.
• The US submarine Pogy (SS-266) sinks the Japanese merhcant cargo ship Chikuzen Maru (2448t) southwest of Kyogasaki, Honshu.

Images from July 27, 1945

San Matao, California

The Potsdam Conference

Water Polo Match

First Operational Mission