June 19th, 1945 (TUESDAY)
BELGIUM: King Leopold refuses to abdicate:
JAPAN: The USAAF's XXI Bomber Command in the flies four missions, one mining and three incendiary missions against secondary cities, during the night of 19/20 June.
Mission 210: 136 B-29 Superfortresses hit the Toyohashi urban area destroying 1.7 square miles (4.40 square km).
Mission 211: 221 B-29s attack the Fukuoka urban area destroying 1.37 square miles (3.55 square km); two other B-29s attack alternate targets.
Mission 212: 123 B-29s attack the Shizuoka urban area destroying 2.25 square miles (5.83 square km); one other hits an alternate target; one B-29 is lost.
Mission 213: 28 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and the waters at Niigata, Miyazu, and Maizuru.
The USN's Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred Eighteen (VPB-118) flying PB4Y-2 Privateers lays mines north of Roka Do, Korea. After laying the mines, the aircraft strafe a ship in the area and all are damaged by AA fire.
PACIFIC OCEAN: U.S. submarines sink an auxiliary sailing vessel, a freighter and an army cargo ship and damage a freighter. U.S. aircraft sink a freighter while a merchant tanker is sunk by a mine.
In a coordinated shipping search, a USAAF Eleventh Air Force B-24 flies the theatre's longest mission, a 2,700-mile (4,345 km) roundtrip lasting 15.5 hours and flying from the Aleutian Islands to Uruppu Island, Japan; turning north the B-24 bombs a small convoy 25 miles (40.2 km) southwest of Shimushu Bay, Shimushu Island, Kurile Islands.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Dawson, Wetaskiwin and Calgary paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Tug HMCS Glendevon commissioned.
U.S.A.: San Francisco: Spain is banned from joining the United Nations as long as Franco is in power.
Millions of people in New York City turn out to cheer General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is honoured with a parade.
Submarine USS Sabalo commissioned.