Air Operations, CBI
CHINA- 16 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s and more than 50 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack transportation targets in and Japanese forces withdrawing from eastern and southern China.
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]Air Operations, East Indies
XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack the seaplane base at Kangean Island and the Sidate airfield on Celebes and the Tanamon airfield.
[ | ]Air Operations, Japan
Nearly 100 VII Fighter Command P-47s and P-51s based on Iwo Jima attack airfields and rail targets in the Tokyo area. A 506th Fighter Group P-51 downs an A6M Zero over Sagami Bay at 1417 hours.
[ | ]Air Operations, Pacific
B-29s drop mines to seal off the main port effectively creating a complete blockade of Japan.
[ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
XIII Bomber Command B-25s and XIII Fighter Command P-38s attack various targets on Luzon.
[ | ]Burma
The last of the organized Japanese troops in Burma are either killed or captured. In the 'Battle of the Breakthrough' 10,000 Japanese under Maj-Gen T. Koba in the Pegu Yoma mountain range are mauled, with 8,300 killed.
[ | ]France, Home Front
The battlecruiser Strasbourg is refloated at Toulon.
[ | ]Pacific
- The US destroyer escort Earl V. Johnson (DE-702) is damaged by an explosion in the Philippine Sea.
- Mines laid by USAAF B-29s sink the Japanese merchant cargo ships No.3 Kamikage Maru outside Najin harbor, Tairetsu Maru in Kobe harbor, and transport Aga Maru off Takatakao Light.
- British submarines Trump and Tiptoe attack a Japanese Batavia-to-Singapore convoy and sink the army cargo vessel Tencho Maru (2608t).
- The US attack cargo ship Seminole (AKA-104) is damaged in a collision in the Okinawa area.
| ]Images from August 3, 1945
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TBM Avenger over Japan |
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