July 11th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
GERMANY: The first meeting of the Inter-Allied Council for Berlin begins to day. The Russians hand over the western half of the city to British and US forces.INDIAN OCEAN: British carrier aircraft bomb Japanese airfields on Sumatra.
JAPAN: In the Kurile Islands, five Eleventh Air Force B-24s radar-bomb Kataoka Air Base on Shimushu Island and 4 B-25s fly a shipping sweep and bomb a Otomae Wan fishery, scoring hits among the buildings.
In Japan during the night of 11/12 July:
- 2 Seventh Air Force B-24s from Okinawa attack Byu and Miyazaki Airfields on Kyushu, and
- XXI Bomber Command B-29s fly Mission 262: 25 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and waters at Miyazu, Maizuru, Obama Island and, in the first B-29 operation to Korea, 2 mine Pusan and Najin.
CANADA: William Mackenzie King wins the general election.
Corvettes HMCS Kitchener,
Port Arthur and Merrittonia paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Corvette HMCS Drumheller and HMC ML 071
paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.
U.S.A.: Admiral H. Kent Hewitt concludes his "investigation of facts pertinent to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor." The report, consisting of 1,342 pages, is forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Kimmel is still faulted for the attack.
Hugh Mulcahy of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) "Phillies" returns to baseball. He was the first major league baseball player to be drafted in the US on march 8, 1941. He was known as the "Losing Pitcher", with a career total of 45 wins, 89 losses, and an ERA of 4.49. He established the National league record for loses in 1940, but was on the 1940 National League All Star squad. (Michael Ballard)