June 13th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
JAPAN: Fighting on Okinawa in the Kunishi Ridge area of the Oraku Peninsula ends with 170 Japanese taken prisoner.The USAAF's XXI Bomber Command in the Marianas flies Mission 202: During the night of 13/14 June, 29 B-29 Superfortresses drop mines in Shimonoseki Strait and in the waters at Niigata. Mines previously laid by B-29s sink four freighters and damage a destroyer and five freighters off Japan.
BORNEO: Borneo Town falls to US and Australian forces.
CANADA: Frigate
HMCS Lauzon departed Londonderry for
Halifax.
U.S.A.: A ramjet engine produced power in supersonic flight in a test conducted by the Applied
Physics Laboratory at Island Beach, New Jersey. The ramjet unit was launched by a booster
of four 5-inch (127 mm) high velocity aircraft rockets (HVARs) and achieved a range of
11,000 yards (10.1 km), nearly double that of similarly launched, cold units.