28 June 1945

June 28th, 1945 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM:

Minesweeper HMS Bramble commissioned.

Rescue tug HMS Warden launched. 9DS)

POLAND: Warsaw: The Government of National Unity is formed; it includes several members of the old London-based Polish government in exile.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: MacArthur"> MacArthur announces that US offensive operations on Luzon, Philippine Islands are complete. It has been 5 months and 19 days since the invasion. Operations against the remaining 23,000 Japanese troops will continue until the end of the war. Most of this fighting will be left to Filipino units. Mindanao is the only other island of the Philippines with significant bodies of Japanese capable of organized resistance.

JAPAN: The Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands dispatches 487 B-29s to fly four incendiary missions against secondary Japanese cities during the night of 28/29 June; one B-29 is lost.

Mission 234: 138 B-29s attack Okayama destroying 2.13 square miles (5.52 square km), 63% of the city area; one B-29 is lost.

Mission 235: 141 B-29s hit Sasebo destroying 0.97 square miles (2.51 square km), 48% of the city area; 2 other B-29s hit alternate targets.

Mission 236: 91 B-29s attack Moji destroying 0.302 square miles (0.782 square km), 26.9% of the city area; 3 B-29s hit alternate targets.

Mission 237: 117 B-29s hit Nobeoka destroying 0.52 square miles (1.35 square km), 36% of the city area.

39 P-47s from Ie Shima attack shipping at Koniya, Japan with rocket and bombing and hit Tokuno Island with rockets and machinegun fire; 26 more hit targets of opportunity in the Sakishima Archipelago including vessels, docks, an airfield, floatplane, and village.

US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateers based on Okinawa continue mining operations off Korea.

BORNEO: During the night, the bombardment flotilla for the Balikpapen, Borneo invasion is attacked by five to seven land-based Japanese torpedo bombers but they score no hits and three aircraft are shot down.

CANADA: Corvettes HMCS La Malbaie and Sherbrooke paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

U.S.A.: The motion picture "Blood on the Sun" is released in the U.S. This war drama, directed by Frank Lloyd, stars James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Rosemary DeCamp. Cagney is a newspaper reporter in Japan during the 1930s who writes stories that the officials do not like. When they think he has some valuable information, they decide to "interrogate" him. The film won a technical Academy Award.

Submarine USS Clamagore commissioned.

Destroyer USS Meredith launched.

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