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July 25th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
GERMANY: Potsdam: Churchill, Eden
and Attlee fly home for the election results.
Potsdam: Truman orders the atomic bomb be dropped on Japan as
soon as possible after 3 August.
JAPAN: During the night of 25/26 July, the US Twentieth
Air Force dispatches106 B-29 Superfortresses to fly 1 bombing and 1 mining mission against
Japan and Korea; 1 B-29 is lost.
- Mission 291: 75 B-29s attack the Mitsubishi Oil Company and Hayama Petroleum
Company at Kawasaki destroying 33% of the storage tanks units and other facilities; 1 B-29
hits an alternate target and 1 suffers a direct flak hit over the target and goes down.
- Mission 292: 29 B-29s mine the waters at Nanao, Fushiki, Obama Island, Tsuruga,
and Seishin, Japan, and Pusan, Korea; 1 other mines an alternate target.
Off Japan:
- Carrier-based aircraft of Task Force 38 continue air strikes in the Inland Sea
area sinking 7 ships and damaging 6 others including the heavy cruiser HIJMS Aoba;
carrier-based aircraft from the Royal Navy's Task Group 37.2 also attack targets in the
Inland Sea area. Carrier strikes are cancelled in the afternoon due to weather.
- The 4 light cruisers and 6 destroyers of Task Group 35.3 bombard the Kushimoto
Seaplane Base and adjacent facilities on Honshu.
- Task Group 95.8 arrives off Japan; the TG consists of:
USS Chenango (CVE-28) with Escort Carrier Air Group Twenty Five
(CVEG-25)
USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) with Marine Carrier Air Group Two
(MCVG-2)
USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75) with Composite Squadron Ninety Nine (VC-99)
USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) with VC-71
USS Suwanee (CVE-27) with CVEG-40
NEW GUINEA: In Borneo, the USAAF
supports Australian troops by dispatching B-24s to bomb Pontianak and Kuching Airfields
while B-25s and fighters attack a dispersal area in the Jesselton Airfield area.
U.S.A.: Henry Kaiser and Joseph
Frazer announce plans to form a corporation to manufacture automobiles. Kaiser
is famous for his shipbuilding feats while Frazer is an executive with Packard
Auto.
Production begins in 1946 and they manufacture 11,000 cars
that year. The company was sold to Willys in 1953.
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