Air Operations, CBI

• 4 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 100 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack a wide array of targets from Peking to Haiphong, French Indochina.

Air Operations, East Indies

XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the Sidate airfield on Celebes and warehouses at Watampone.

Air Operations, Japan

• More than 70 FEAF B-24s attack Japanese warships and shipping at Kure.
• 41 B-24s attack factories and stores near Aburatsu, industrial plants at Nagasaki, and town areas at Nobeoka and Oita.
• FEAF B-25s attack Kagoshima, Kibana, Tokuno Shima, and various targets at Miyazaki and Tozakihana.
• 319th Medium Bomb Group A-26s attack the naval base and an engine factory at Nagasaki.
• A large number of FEAF P-47s attack various targets at Makurazuki, the Chiran airfield on Kyushu and the Izumi airfield on Honshu, and shipping and naval targets at Kure, Ibusuki, and Kagoshima Bay.
• FEAF P-51s attack factories at Omura and Sashiki, and shipping and other targets throughout southern Kyushu.
• US Navy aircraft from Task Force 38 and Royal Navy aircraft from Task Group 37.2 mount massive attacks against airfields and naval targets in and around the Sea of Japan and along the northern Honshu coast. A Japanese destroyer escort, 12 merchant vessels, and several small naval combat ship are sunk.
• During the night 504th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines in Shimonoseki Strait and waters off Fukuoka and Karatsu.

Air Operations, Korea

• FEAF P-51s attack targets of opportunity along the southern Korean coast.
• During the night 504th Very Heavy Bomb Group B-29s sow mines off Najin.

Air Operations, Philippines

• XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack pockets of resistance on Negros.
• B-25s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack Japanese Army defenses and artiller positions on Luzon.

Air Operations, Ryukyus

• At 0041 hours, 1 of the last US destroyers on radar picket duty north of Okinawa is mortally damaged by a fabric-and-wood kamikaze that kills 47 and wounds 73.
• VMF(N)-543 F6Fs down 2 G4M 'Betty' bombers near Okinawa at 0117 and 0205 hours, respectively.
• A 548th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 crew downs a G4M 'Betty' bomber at 0235 hours.

Britain, Home Front

The 8th Army is disbanded.

Pacific

• 5 battleships and several cruisers and destroyers commanded by Rear-Adm John F. Shafroth shells offices, an aircraft factory and other targets at Hamamatsu, on Honshu Island.
• On Okinawa, Japanese suicide aircraft damage the American destroyer Cassin Young (DD-793) and the fast transport Horace A. Bass (APD-124).
• The Japanese submarine chaser No. 207 is sunk by US Army aircraft off Kyushu, Japan.

Images from July 29, 1945

Incendiary bombs drop over Osaka, July 1945

Bombing Osaka

P-51 Mustangs from B-29 over Japan July 1945

Mustangs Over Japan

Returning from a mission over Gifu, July 1945

Returning from a Mission over Gifu

Photo after the B-25 Empire State Building Crash

Photo after the B-25 Empire State Building Crash