June 25th, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: London: William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw"), the Nazi propagandist from Berlin, is to be sent for trial on a charge of high treason.
JAPAN: U.S. Twentieth Air Force Mission 222: During the night of 25/26 June, 26 B-29s plant mines in Shimonoseki Strait and at Maizuru and off Obama Island.Mines are also laid off Korea by Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateers of the Navy's Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred Eighteen (VPB-118) based at Yonton Airfield, Okinawa; after laying their mines. the Navy crews strafe targets of opportunity including lighthouses and shipping.
Japanese naval aviators of the 631st Air Corps (1st Submarine Flotilla) under Captain Tatsunoke Ariizumi are given orders for Operation Hikari, kamikaze attacks on the the American fleet at Ulithi. This will be done by their unique Seiran submarine launched floatplane bombers. (Phil Jacobsen)
BORNEO: U.S. Navy underwater demolition teams (UDTs)
begin removing obstacles on Balikpapan, Borneo beaches prior to the landing of Australian
troops on 1 July. The UDTs are covered by aircraft.
With the capture of Tuguegarag in the Cagayan Valley, the surviving Japanese are
concentrated in the Sierra Madre area, east of the Cagayan Valley on Luzon, Phillipine
Islands.
Australian forces complete the occupation of the Miri oilfield area of Sarawak.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Luzon: US troops capture Tuguegarao, Gattaran and Penablanca. The surviving Japanese are concentrated in the Sierra Madre area, east of the Cagayan Valley.
CANADA:
Corvettes HMCS Louisburg, Saskatoon and
Norsyd paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
HMC ML 088 paid off.