Year 1945

Diary for Wednesday, June 20, 1945: Okinawa Americans reach Hill 89, location of Japanese emergency HQ. Philippines US forces reach Aparri, having advanced 322 km north along Cagayan Valley in […]

Diary for Tuesday, June 19, 1945: Home Fronts USA: 4 million people give Eisenhower ‘ticker-tape’ welcome in New York City.

Diary for Monday, June 18, 1945: Okinawa Lieutenant-General Buckner fatally wounded by artillery shell at forward observation post; aged 58. Occupied countries Germany: Colonel-General Berzarin, outspoken Soviet military commander in

Diary for Sunday, June 17, 1945: Air War Pacific: B-29 Superfortress of 21st BC, 20th Air Force, carry out first of series of complex night incendiary raids on 58 of

Diary for Saturday, June 16, 1945: Okinawa Yuza-Dake peak captured by US infantry.

Diary for Friday, June 15, 1945: Burma Mountbatten addresses Victory Parade in Rangoon. Home Fronts Britain: Parliament dissolved in anticipation of first General Election since 1935.

Diary for Thursday, June 14, 1945: Okinawa US infantry capture Yaeju-Dake peak. Sea War Pacific: British TG raids Truk (June 14 and 15). Occupied countries Germany: Von Ribbentrop arrested by

Diary for Wednesday, June 13, 1945: Okinawa End of organized Japanese resistance in Oroku sector. Farther south, heavy Japanese gunfire forces Americans to use tanks for all normal MT duties

Diary for Tuesday, June 12, 1945: Okinawa Japanese marines in Oroku sector request cease-fire, which will permit them to commit hara-kiri; hundreds jump off cliffs or disembowel themselves with grenades­.

Diary for Monday, June 11, 1945: Okinawa Japanese pocket in Oroku sector now only 914 meters square.

Diary for Sunday, June 10, 1945: Okinawa US 24th Corps launches all-out attack on Yaeju-Dake Line, in extreme south. US Marines compress Japanese pocket in Oroku sector. Sea War Pacific

Diary for Saturday, June 9, 1945: Occupied countries Germany: Montgomery takes salute at last parade of Guards Armored Division. Politics Anglo-British-Yugoslav Agreement on future status of Trieste. Home Fronts Britain

Diary for Friday, June 8, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Japanese cruiser Ashigara sunk by British submarine Trenchant off Sumatra.

Diary for Thursday, June 7, 1945: Home Fronts Britain: King and Queen visit Channel Islands. First performance of Britten’s opera ‘Peter Grimes‘ at Sadler’s Wells Theater, London. Norway King Haakon

Diary for Wednesday, June 6, 1945: Politics Brazil declares war on Japan. Secret War Detention of 4 agents landed on Orissa coast (India) by Japanese submarine in March 1944: 2

Diary for Tuesday, June 5, 1945: Politics ALLIED AGREEMENT ON PARTITION OF GERMANY AND CITY OF BERLIN signed by Eisenhower, Montgomery, Lattre de Tassigny and Zhukov. Okinawa Naha airfield captured

Diary for Monday, June 4, 1945: Okinawa US Marines land behind Japanese lines in Oroku Peninsular. Occupied countries Germany: Paul Ferdonnet ­- the ‘Radio Traitor’ of Stuttgart – arrested by

Diary for Sunday, June 3, 1945: Okinawa Japanese forces trapped in Oroku and Chinen Peninsulars. Occupied countries Europe: Captured maps of German minefields distributed by SHAEF to all Allied governments

Diary for Saturday, June 2, 1945: Air War Pacific: TF 38 raids Kamikaze bases in South Japan: this, and other raids, compel Japanese to continue operations from bases farther north.

Diary for Friday, June 1, 1945: Burma British 12th Army joins 14th Army. Okinawa Americans pursue retreating Japanese towards south Coast. Air War Pacific: 27 P-51 Mustang fighters collide during