Air Operations, CBI

• 17 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and nearly 75 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack a wide range of targets across most of eastern and southern China.

Air Operations, Japan

6 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s attack Kataoka and Kukutan Cape.

Air Operations, Philippines

XIII Fighter Command P-38s support US 8th Army ground forces on Luzon.

Air Operations, Pacific

B-29 raids devastate Nagasaki and Toyama. The next day, B-29s drop huge volumes of sea mines around the Japanese coast, blockading harbors. In recent months, air-dropped sea mines have been sinking more Japanese ships that US submarines.

Britain, Home Front

King George VI receives Pres Truman aboard the HMS Renown at Plymouth.

Diplomatic Relations

As the Potsdam Conference ends, Attlee, Truman and Stalin agree to place sharp curbs on German industrial power. The Soviet Union will annex East Prussia and Poland will take over a large part of eastern Germany.

Italy, Home Front

Pietro Macagni, composer of Cavalleria Rusticana, dies at age 81.

Images from August 2, 1945

Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighters awaiting disposal at Flensburg airfield in Germany, 2 August 1945

Fw 190 Fighters Awaiting Disposal

A Royal Air Force Regiment sentry stands guard whilst German technicians assemble captured Mannheim radar equipment at Grove airfield in Denmark in preparation for sending it to the UK for evaluation, 2 August 1945

Guarding Radar Equipment

Sailors can be seen entering Eagle Talkie Cinema in Iloilo, Philippines on 2 August 1945. The theater's sign offers 'talkies' and the movie playing is 'Practically Yours' starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray

Going to the Movies

Visit of President Truman. 2 August 1945, on board USS Augusta, at Plymouth. Harry Truman visited Great Britain for the first time, and was met by HM the King on board HMS Renown at Plymouth.

President Truman and King George