June 12th, 1945 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: General Eisenhower is awarded the Order of Merit and given the Freedom of the City of London.
ITALY: Yugoslav forces withdraw from the disputed port of Trieste.
U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet: MS "T-357" - mined in Danzig bay. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
JAPAN: Okinawa: Japanese troops begin committing suicide on the Oruku peninsula believing that further resistance is futile. They are now forced into a pocket of 1,093 square yards.Mines previously laid by USAAF B-29 Superfortresses sink a Japanese army cargo ship, two freighters and a liaison ship off Japan.
The USN's Task Force 38 retires from the Okinawa area.
CANADA:
Lt John Rawson Kenneth Stewart RCNVR Awarded Mention in Dispatches.
Minesweeper HMCS Transcona paid off and became RCMP ship French at Sydney , Nova Scotia.
Corvette HMCS Fennel paid off and returned to RN at Londonderry.
Destroyer HMCS Columbia paid off.
U.S.A.:
Submarine USS Pomodon launched.
Destroyer USS Turner commissioned.