US NAVY
PACIFIC—TF 92, comprising two light cruisers and 12
destroyers (Rear Admiral John H. Brown, Jr.) bombards Japanese installations on
Matsuwa Island and at Kurabu Cape and Suribachi Bay, Paramushiro Island Kurils.
A pre‑bombardment sweep of the Sea of Okhotsk results in the destruction of ten
trawlers.
Japanese
submarine I 58 conducts unsuccessful kaiten attack on dock landing ship
Oak Hill (LSD‑7) while she is enroute from Okinawa to Leyte Gulf accompanied by
destroyer escort Thomas F. Nickel (DE‑587).
Battleship
Pennsylvania (BB‑38) is damaged by aerial torpedo, Buckner Bay, Okinawa,
26°14'N, 127°50'E.
Aircraft
sink Japanese auxiliary patrol vessel Pa 166 five miles southeast of Urasaki,
Japan, and merchant cargo ship Hozugawa Maru off the east coast of Korea,
35°00'N, 126°00'E, and damage Kitanami Maru off Mishima light.
Mines sink
Japanese merchant cargo ship No.1 Shinyo Maru north of Kyushu, and damage
merchant cargo ship Yurakawa Maru eight kilometers off Wakamatsu light, and
army cargo ship No.16 Tamon Maru in Koguchi Channel, Nanao, 37°07'N, 137°02'E.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
INTERNATIONAL—Soviet troops move into Korea.
NINTH AF—Col Reginald F Vance becomes commander of 9th Air Division.
FEAF—B‑24’s from Okinawa bomb Matsuyama airfield. B‑25’s
and A‑26’s hit Chiran and Kanoya airfields while other A‑26’s and A‑20’s and P‑47’s
hit towns of Kushikino, Akune, and Miyazaki. More B‑25’s and Fighter Bombers
hit shipping and communications targets in Kyushu, N Ryukyus, and between Japan
and Korea. The aircraft claim several small merchant ships sunk ancl damaged,
and numerous bridges, railroads, factories, and other targets of opportunity
hit. B‑24’s from the Philippine Islands pound Kagi airfield and Takao marshalling
yard. P‑38’s support ground forces in or near Kabayan, Kiangan, and Uldugan.
ELEVENTH AF—4 B‑24’s make a combined visual and radar bomb
run over Kataoka. 3 more bomb Suribachi airfield, hitting runways and
buildings. 1 B‑24 flies a radar‑ferret mission.
US ARMY
U.S.—War Department suspends projected operations against
Fort Bayard since end of hostilities is imminent.
KOREA—Soviet troops move into Korea.
US MARINE CORPS
Soviet troops move into Korea.
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