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June 16th, 1945 (SATURDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Sloop HMS Opossum commissioned.

Frigate HMCS Stettler departed Londonderry for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

BELGIUM: Brussels: Achille van Acker, the Belgian prime minister and is entire cabinet resign in protest against the contemplated return of King Leopold.

GERMANY: Dachau: Nearly 2,500 people have died, mainly of typhus, since the camp was liberated on 29 April.

JAPAN: OKINAWA: Mt. Yuza falls to US forces.

Off Okinawa at 2030 hours local, a single, low-flying Japanese aircraft drops a torpedo which hits the destroyer USS Twiggs (DD-591) on her port side, exploding her number 2 magazine. The plane then circles and completes its kamikaze mission in a suicide crash. The explosion enveloped the destroyer in flame; and, within an hour, she sinks. Despite the hazard of exploding ammunition, 188 survivors are rescued from the oily waters; among the 162 dead and missing is her commanding officer.

NEW GUINEA: Seafires, Fireflies and Avengers from the aircraft carriers of the British Pacific Fleet have carried out a series of devastating attacks on Japanese bases in the Caroline Islands north of here over the last two days. To their surprise they met no Japanese aircraft, and only one plane was shot down from the ground. The raid started badly. One pilot radioed back: "Hell, the boss is in the Oggin." Translated from the Fleet Air Arm slang this meant that the Flight Commander's Avenger was in the sea, having crashed on take-off.

CANADA: Capt (E) John Grant Knowlton RCN">RCN, Capt Humphrey McMaster RCN, Capt Leslie Frederick Banyard RCNR, Cdr (E) Herbert Lane Elliott RCNR, A/Cdr Harry "The Horse" Freeland RCNR, Capt Joseph Patrick Connolly RCNVR, Surg/Capt David Walker Johnstone RCNVR, A/Cdr Alexander McAllister McLarnon RCNVR, A/Cder Reginald "Cowboy" Jackson RCNVR, Cdr (L) William Hugh Greg Rogers RCNVR, Paym/Capt Richard Walter Underhill RCNVR awarded OBE.

Capt Thomas Colin Anderson CN SS Delwarnic, Capt James William Childs CN SS Connector, Capt Victor Nathan Clarke CN Liscombe Park, Capt Carl JR Kohler SS Dufferin Park awarded MBE (Civil)

Wt(E) Duff Morrison Pennie RCN, Wt(E) David Cormack RCNR, Skr/Lt Stanley Francis Ellis RCNR, A/LCdr Lester Alton Hickey RCNR, Cd(S) Alfred Richard Armstrong Taylor RCNR, A/LCdr Breen Philip Young RCNR, A/LCdr Ansten Anstensen RCNVR, A/LCdr Richard Cassils Chenoweth RCNVR, A/LCdr John Henderson Kyle RCNVR, A/LCdr(E) Ian Norton MacKay RCNVR, LCdr Wilfred McIsaac RCNVR, A/LCdr Arthur Martin Peregrin Scaife RCNVR, Lt(SB) Norah Janetta COOPER WRCNS awarded MBE

2nd/Officer Salvator Peter Berna CP SS Whiteshell Park, 2nd/Officer Douglas Zealand Creaser, 3rd/Officer Douglas Gordon Daupinee CN SS Colborne,

Ch(E) Phillip Knight CN SS Delwarnic, 2nd(E) Thomas Hutchinson Mearns CN SS Chomody awarded MBE

A/LCdr Charles Patrick Nixon RCN, A/Cdr St. Clair Balfour RCNVR, Lt James MacMurray Hay RCNVR awarded DSC

P/Matron Alma Rae Fellowes awarded Royal Red Cross

A/Matron Catherine Adeline Jane Evans RCN and N/S Margaret Isabelle Green RCN awarded Associate Royal Red Cross

Lt George Olaf Rundle RNCR awarded Bar to George Medal

PO)HSD) David Gray RCNVR awarded DSM

Ch/Ymn Frederick Harold Ames RCN, CPO John James Ashworth Clarke RCN,

CPO/Ck(S) Ross Douglas Eison RCN, CPO/Stk Delamark Steven Lowe RCN, PO Clare Lorne Ball RCNR, CPO/Sto Clyde James Brennan RCNR, SPO Walter Stanley Chemist RCNR, CPO John Leopold Christopher RCNR, PO/Patrol, William Arthur Johnson RCNR, A/CPO Hugh Patrick McVeigh RCNR, CPO(TC) Douglas William Pike RCNR, LS John William Wells RCNR, CPO/Wtr Angus McFayden Smith Allan RCNVR, ERA 3/cl Herbert Arthur Coulman RCNVR, A/Ymn George Patrick Fenn RCNVR, L/Sig Thomas Jamieson RCNVR, CPO/Sto Arthur Andrew Jourdin RCNVR, A/CPO Ronald Anthony Norman RCNVR, CPO/Sto Roy Smith RCNVR, CPO/MM 3 William Nelson Smith RCNVR, L/SBA Herbert Treller RCNVR, A/CPO/Shipw, Frank Veinor RCNVR, MAA Phyllis Ross Sanderson WRCNS awarded BEM

Fishing/Skr's, Fred Chetwyne, Sydney Christie and Douglas Smith awarded BEM (Civil) for rescue of crew of SS Gertrud Rask

Fishermen Danny Bower, Rodman Branne, Cecil Chetwynd, Earl Christie, Fred Crowell, Foreman Newell and Julius Purdy awarded King's Commendation for Brave Conduct in rescue of crew of SS Gertrud Rask.

PO Clifford John Bell RCNVR and A/PO Edwin Thompson Hughes RCNVR awarded Second Mention in Dispatches

 CPO/Sto James Cooper RCN, PO Candido De Candido RCN, CPO/Sto Walter Alwin Elliott RCN, PO Henry James RCN, CPO Murray Beasley Miller RCN, A/PO Gordon Campbell Mitchell RCN, CPO George Henry Charles Pearce RCN, CPO Donald Edward Snelgrove RCN, CPO/Sto George Henry Thomas RCN, CPO/Elec Cedric Stanley Watling RCN, Lt Wilred Orvin Oakley BARBOUR RCNR, SPO Daniel Brown RCNR, CPO Hugh Brown RCNR, Lt John Foggo Carmichael RCNR, ERA 4 Thomas Ernest Davies RCNR, Cd(E) Joseph William Edmundson RCNR, CPO/ERA Francis Feener RCNR, A/SPO Jack Charles Harnett RCNR, LS Roby Emmerson Hatfield RCNR, SPO John Lockwood RCNR, ERA 3 Thomas Joseph McCrate RCNR, ERA 3 William E. McLaren RCNR, CPO/ERA Karl Moe, RCNR, Cd(E) George Cairns Ness RCNR, SPO Herbert John Perrett RCNR, AB (LTO) Donald Raymond Phillips RCNR, Lt Lewis Dennis Quick RCNR, LS Allyn Morgan Ripley, A/SPO Andrew Lang Ritchie RCNR, Skr/Lt John Winton Sharpe RCNR, AB George Sibleyh RCNR, Wt(E) Walter Edgar Spershott RCNR, CPO Ralph Sydney Tiner RCNR, CPO Frank Wagg RCNR, A/LCdr Matthew Howard Wallace RCNR, PO Dean Nelson Wood RCNR, Skr/Lt Henry Esson YOUNG RCNR, Surg/Lt John Douglas Boyd Baird RCNVR, Lt Donald Richard Baker RCNVR, L/Sig George Charles Bayfoord RCNVR, PO Charles Edward Bell RCNVR, Lt Donald Patterson Best RCNVR, CPO/MM John Buchan RCNVR, A/CPO Larence Elswood Chapman RCNVR, CPO/MM Charles Kenneth Clarke RCNVR, A/CPO Daniel Cunningham RCNVR, PO John Morley Davies RCNVR, ERA 3 Allan Goss Daivs RCNVR, Lt Edmond Joli De Lotbiniere RCNVR, A/Cdr Thomas Grant Denny RCNVR, ERA 3, James Alexander Duncan RCNVR; CPO/MM Robert Pankburst Edwards RCNVR, Lt Frank Kinnear Ellis RCNVR, Lt John Forbes Evans RCNVR, A/LCdr Harold Frederick Farncomb RCNVR, SBA James Douglas Freeborn RCNVR, AB Anthony Gordon Genova RCNVR, LS William Arthur Gilder RCNVR. Lt Kenneth David Heath RCNVR, A/LS Paul Hebert RCNVR, L/Tel Edward John Hickey RCNVR, CPO William Anderson Irving RCNVR, Lt Edward Gilbert Jarvis RCNVR, ERA 3 James Hollywell KERR RCNVR; L/Ck Gordon Wilfred KUHN; L/Sup/A Joseph Donat Hector Laine RCNVR, PO/Stk Donald Chalmers Lipsit RCNVR, ERA 3 Charles Little RCNVR, Lt John Gordon McClelland RCNVR, ERA 3 Charles Wilson McHugh RCNVR, CPO/ERA Keith McIntyre RCNVR, PO/Sup Robert Beverley Millar RCNVR, Ymn Richard John Moore RCNVR, A/L/Tel John Francis Mulvaney RCNVR, Lt William George Mylett RCNVR, PO Rodger J. Oullette RCNVR, A/PO Robert Tait Porter RCNVR, Lt Thomas Beattie Robson RCNVR, AB Norman Reginald Rutherford RCNVR, SPO William Charles Scott RCNVR, PO Charles Rupert Selzer RCNVR, S/Lt Frank Herman Sheppard RCNVR, A/CPO Stanley Simpson RCNVR, L/Std Peter Deas Sinclair RCNVR, Lt Donald William Green Storey RCNVR, CPO/MM Roland Laurie Talbot RCNVR, A/LS Ray Johnson Tibert RCNVR, A/LCdr George Fitzgerald Webb RCNVR, A/LCdr Richard Sugden Williams RCNVR, Lt Gerald Gray Zaphe RCNVR awarded Mention in Dispatches

Corvettes HMCS Chicoutimi, Edmunston and Matapedia paid off Sorel Province of Quebec.

U.S.A.:

Destroyer USS Stickell launched.

Destroyer USS Ozbourn laid down.

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