May 28th, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The Royal Navy announces the abolition of convoys in the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans.
GERMANY: Hamburg: William Joyce, nicknamed "Lord Haw-Haw" and well known for his propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis throughout the war, has been captured in a wood between here and the Danish frontier. His voice, was his downfall. He boldly went up to two British officers collecting wood for a fire and started talking to them in German. Then he spoke English and they spotted the upper-class accent made famous by his "Jairmany calling" broadcasts.
When challenged Joyce moved his hand to his pocket, and one of the officers shot him in the thigh. He was later found to be carrying a fake German passport in the name of Hansen.
JAPAN: Okinawa: US forces reportedly occupy two-thirds of Naha.
Off Okinawa, the Japanese wage their last strong air effort and sink one ship and damage five others:
- The destroyer USS Drexler (DD-741) is attacked by two kamikazes at 0700 hours. One aircraft is shot down and the second tries to crash USS Lowry (DD-770) and failing, stumbled into Drexler, cutting off all power and starting large gasoline fires. At 0703 hours, another suicider crashed in flames into Drexler's superstructure resulting in a tremendous explosion and the destroyer rolled on her starboard side and sank stern first in less than a minute after the second hit. Because of the speed with which she sank, casualties were heavy: 168 dead and 52 wounded.
- While unloading cargo at 0730 hours, the attack transport USS Sandoval (APA-194) is attacked by a kamikaze which crashes into the portside of the wheelhouse. Five men are killed and 29 wounded; three of the latter died later. Flames lit the bridge, central fire control was lost and radar and interior communications were knocked out. The fire on the bridge was extinguished by 0830 and central fire control was regained after 0900 hours.
- The large support landing craft LCS(L)-119 is damaged by a kamikaze.
- The armed U.S. freighter SS Mary A. Livermore is hit by a kamikaze which kills four sailors and seven merchant sailors.
- The armed U.S. freighter SS Brown Victory is hit by a kamikaze off Ie Shima killing three sailors and one merchant sailor.
- The armed U.S. freighter SS Josiah Snelling is also hit by a kamikaze. Gunfire by the Armed Guard deflect the plane from hitting a vital part of the ship and nobody is killed.
The USAAF's Twentieth Air Force dispatches fighters from Iwo Jima Island to hit Kasumigaura, Japan and its airfield with six planes claimed destroyed and 40+ damaged and P-47s fly heckler strikes against Kyushu during the night of 28/29 May.
Mines previously laid by B-29 Superfortresses sink a Japanese transport and damage a coast defence vessel, two freighters and a fishing boat in Japanese waters.
CANADA: HMCS Beacon Hill departed Greenock for Halifax.
U.S.A.:
Destroyer USS Henderson launched.