US NAVY
PACIFIC—TG 12.3 attacks Wake Island. Planes from light
carrier Cabot (CVL‑28) bomb installations. Battleship Pennsylvania
(BB‑38) bombards the atoll but is damaged by shore battery, 19°20'N, 166°30'E.
TG 95.2
(Rear Admiral Francis S. Low), a fast striking group consisting of large
cruisers Alaska (CB‑1) and Guam (CB‑2), four light cruisers and
nine destroyers, departs Okinawa and proceeds into the East China Sea to
conduct anti‑shipping sweeps off Shanghai, China.
TG 95.3
(Vice Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf), consisting of three battleships, a heavy
cruiser, a light cruiser, three escort carriers, six destroyers and three
destroyer escorts, accompanies TG 95.2 to furnish covering support.
Heaviest
USAAF B‑29 raid to date: 774 planes drop 6,632 tons of bombs on five different
targets in Japan. Additionally, in what will be the largest operation of its
kind, 42 USAAF B‑29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Najin and
Chongjin, Korea, and Hamada, Japan. Japanese escort vessel Ikura is
damaged by mine in Oguchi Channel.
USAAF B‑24s
(Far East Air Force) bomb Nagasaki dockyard area, damaging motor torpedo boat Gyoraitei
No.102; USAAF B‑25s and fighter‑bomber aircraft (Far East Air Force) bomb
Japanese shipping in Nagasaki harbor, damaging merchant cargo ship Kinko
Maru and tanker Tada Maru. Other USAAF (Fifth Air Force) planes sink
merchant cargo ship Hayabusa Maru near Eboshi light, 33°41'N, 129°59'E.
Japanese
merchant tanker Chokai Maru is damaged by marine casualty, 34°38'N,
134°56'E.
British
submarines HMS Thorough and HMS Taciturn attack Japanese shipping
in Bulelong Roads; while Taciturn engages shore batteries, Thorough sinks
cargo vessels Hino Maru and Shoei Maru and shells warehouses.
Submarine
chaser PC‑784 collides with Army tug LT 666 in a dense fog off
entrance to Amchitka, Alaska, harbor; both vessels suffer damage but there are
no injuries to either crew.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
TENTH AF—Gen Hegenberger becomes CG Tenth AF. Tenth AF moves
from Piardoba to Kunming. (HQ at Kunming was officially opened on 23 Jul). The
scheduled role of the Tenth AF in China is almost identical with its completed
Burma mission to act as the tactical AF giving direct support and providing air
supply to Chinese ground forces operating S of 27th parallel N.
FOURTEENTH AF—Bad weather severely curtails operations. P‑61’s
effectively sweep rivers in Wuchou, Canton, and Tsingyun areas, sinking several
large junks and sampans.
FEAF—B‑24’s bomb shipyards at Pontianak. Other Heavy Bombers
hit barracks and AA guns along Makassar Strait. P‑38’s strafe locomotives in
Soerabaja area. Other P‑38’s support ground forces ENE and SE of Mankayan and,
along with USMC aircraft, pound enemy positions and concentrations in Upian
area. B‑24’s bomb Tourane marshalling yard while escorting P‑51’s strafe
boxcars at Quang Nam. Other B‑24’s strike Takao military stores. About 50 B‑24’s
bomb targets in Nagasaki dock and harbor area. B‑25’s and Fighter Bombers in
Nagasaki area hit docks, railroad yards, and shipping. Other B‑24’s bomb Koniya
airfield and hit Kakeroma I. 80‑plus P‑47’s hit railroad bridges and other
railroad targets at Sendai. Also P‑47’s fly their first combat mission from Iwo
Jima, joining VII FC P‑51’s in sweep over S Honshu. Rolling stock and airfields
are attacked in Okazaki, Itami, and Nagoya areas.
TWENTIETH AF—627 B‑29’s, on night of 1/2 Aug, carry out fire‑bomb
raids on Japanese cities of Hachioji, Toyama, Nagaoka, and Mito; 120 others
bomb Kawasaki petroleum facilities; and 37 drop mines in Shimonoseki Strait, in
Nakaumi Lagoon, at Hamada, Sakai, Yonago, Najin, and Seishin. The total of 784
B‑29’s (of 836 dispatched) bombing targets is the largest Twentieth AF single‑day
effort of World War II.
VII FC—30‑plus Iwo Jima‑based P‑51’s hit airfields and other
targets in Osaka‑Nagoya area. Bad weather prevents numerous other fighters from
reaching targets.
US ARMY
US MARINE CORPS
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