June 2nd, 1945 (SATURDAY)
ITALY: Rome: The Pope broadcasts his hopes that Germany will lay aside the spectre of Nazism and start a new life.
JAPAN: Carrier aircraft of Task Group 38.4 attack airfields in southern Kyushu. The aircraft carriers of TG 38.4 are:
USS Independence (CVL-22) with Light Carrier Air Group Forty Six (CVLG-46)
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) with Carrier Air Group Eighty Five (CVG-85)
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) with CVG-87
USS Yorktown (CV-10) with CVG-9
Mines previously laid by B-29 Superfortresses of the USAAF's Twentieth Air Force damage five Japanese merchant vessels in waters off Japan.
CANADA: