June 27th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: HMS HERON, RNAS Yeovilton, 759 RN Sqn, Corsair aircraft JS700, Lt (A) John "Jack" Joseph FEENEY RCNVR, of Fredericton, New Brunswick lost, crashed short of runway during ADDLs. Interred YEOVILTON CHURCHYARD RNAS. EXTENSION Somerset. "ADDL's" is either Aerodrome Dummy Deck Landings or Airfield Dummy Deck Landings. In other words practice carrier landing on a "real runway".
Submarine HMS Thermopylae launched.
JAPAN: During the night of 27/28 June, 29 XXI Bomber Command B-29 Superfortresses fly Mission 233, the mining of the harbours of Hagi, Kobe, and Niigata, Japan. During the day, 148 P-51s of the XXI Bomber Command are dispatched from Iwo Jima, against Kasumigaura, Imba, and Tsukuba Airfields in the Tokyo area but abort because of weather. Twenty Seventh Air Force P-47s from Ie Shima Island hit shipping and a village on Kikai Island, Japan; Anti-Aircraft from vessels downs two P-47s. Twelve other P-47s hit shipping off Kakeroma Island, while 20 more attack vessels and targets of opportunity throughout the Sakishima Archipelago. During the night of 27/28 June, five P-61 Black Widows fly intruder attacks, hitting vessels off Amami Gunto Island and Wan Airfield.Very long range fighter mission 25: 148 P-51s are dispatched from Iwo Jima Island, against Kasumigaura, Imba, and Tsukuba Airfields in the Tokyo area but abort because of weather.
USN PB4Y-2 Privateers operating from Okinawa continue laying mines off Korea.
Off Okinawa, a kamikaze plane hits the carrier USS BUNKER HILL, killing 373 men.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Arrowhead, Hepatica and Trillium paid off and returned to RN at Milford Haven.
Corvettes HMCS Guelph and Kamloops paid off at Sorel, Province
of Quebec.
U.S.A.: Ford reduces the work force at Willow Run to 4,000
people. At it's peak, 42,000 workers turned out B-24's (Drew Halevy)
Washington: Edward Stettinius resigns as secretary of state to take up the post of ambassador to the United Nations.
Destroyer USS Samuel B Roberts laid down.
Escort carrier USS Mindoro launched.