July 29th, 1945 (SUNDAY)
EUROPE: The British Eighth Army is disbanded.
JAPAN: US Far East Air Force (FEAF)]:
P-47s from Ie Shima and B-24s, B-25s, and A-26 Invaders from Okinawa pound targets in the Japanese Home Islands;
70+ B-24s pound shipping at Kure, 41 B-24s hit a factory and storage area northwest of Aburatsu, shipping and engine works in Nagasaki and vicinity, and the towns of Nobeoka, Kyushu and Oita;
B-25s hit Kagoshima, Kyushu, Kibana, a bridge, barracks and other buildings at Miyazaki, warehouses, a lighthouse, and navigation light at Tozaki-hana, and bomb Tokuno Shima;
A-26s pound the naval base and engine works at Nagasaki;
numerous P-47s hit the harbor at Kure, shipping and seaplane station at Ibusuki, railroad station, docks, and town area of Makurazaki, Chiran and Izumi Airfields, and shipping at Kagoshima Bay.
P-51s hit numerous targets of opportunity on the southern coast of Korea and on the southern part of Kyushu, where shipping, railroads, and Omura, Kyushu and Sashiki factories are also attacked.
- Also during the day, American and British carrier-based aircraft attack airfields and naval targets in the Inland Sea sinking a destroyer and 12 merchant vessels. USN Task Group 34.8.1 consisting of 3 battleships (SOUTH DAKOTA, INDIANA and MASSACHUSETTS), 4 heavy cruisers (CHICAGO, QUINCY, BOSTON and SAINT PAUL) and 10 destroyers bombards facilities on Honshu. The British battleship HMS King George V and 3 destroyers join in the bombardment.
- During the night of 29/30 July, the US Twentieth Air Force flies Mission 304; 24 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and the waters at Fukuoka, Karatsu, and Najin; 2 others mine alternate targets.
509BG aircraft carry out 'Pumpkin Missions' to practice bomb runs.
| Ops. | Miss. | Date | Aircraft | Cdr. | Crew | Bombing | Target | Lat | Long | Result |
| 30 | 11 | 29/07/45 | 44-27297 | Bock | C-13 | Secondary | Visual | Nakajima A/c Engines, Tokyo | Poor | ||
| 30 | 10 | 29/07/45 | 44-27298 | Taylor | A-1 | Primary | Visual | Nitrogen Fertilzer Plant, Ube | Poor | ||
| 30 | 12 | 29/07/45 | 44-27301 | Eatherly | C-11 | Secondary | Visual | Naval Base at Maizuru | Excellent | ||
| 30 | 10 | 29/07/45 | 44-27302 | McKnight | B-8 | Primary | Visual | Industrial Soda Co., Ube | Excellent | ||
| 30 | 10 | 29/07/45 | 44-27303 | Wilson | B-6 | Primary | Visual | Nippon Oil, Ube | Poor | ||
| 30 | 12 | 29/07/45 | 44-27304 | Smith | A-5 | Secondary | Visual | Oil Refinery, Wakayama | Unobserved | ||
| 30 | 11 | 29/07/45 | 44-27353 | Lewis | B-9 | Primary | Visual | Koriyama Marshalling Yards | Excellent | ||
| 30 | 11 | 29/07/45 | 44-86291 | Ray | C-14 | Primary | Visual | Light Industry, Koriyama | Poor |
(David Hebditch)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Nanoonse (ex HMCS Nootka) paid off.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS William W Wood launched.