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Germany
SHAEF disbanded
   Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

New Guinea
Australian 6th Infantry Division attacks and captures Japanese position known as The Blot
   Operations in Northeast New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea, 1943-1945

East Indies
Australian 7th Infantry Division expanding and consolidating beachhead in the Balikpapan sector on Borneo
   Operations in the East Indies, 1942-1945

US FEAF aircraft attack targets on Borneo and Celebes Island
   Naval operations in the East Indies
   Air operations in the East Indies

Philippine Islands
US 5th Air Force aircraft attack targets on Luzon and Negros Island
   Philippines campaign, 1944-1945
   Air operations in the Philippines, 1944-1945

Formosa
US FEAF attacks Taiharo with A-26 bombers
   Air operations in the Central and Western Pacific Area, 1941-1945

Ryukyu Islands
US 7th Air Force officially subordinated to US Far East Air Force
   Operations in the Ryukyu Islands, 1945
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japan
US FEAF fighters attack targets on Kyushu
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38 attack targets on Hokkaido and northern Honshu and in nearby waters
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN escort destroyer Tachibana sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN Coast Defense Vessel No. 219 sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN Coast Defense Vessel No. 65 sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN Coast Defense Vessel No. 74 sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN sub chaser Ch-48 sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary minesweeper No. 2 Choyo Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary minesweeper No. 3 Keijin Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary minesweeper Sonobe Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary minesweeper No. 2 Tamazono Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN guardboat Chitose Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN guardboat No. 18 Eikoku Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN guardboat No. 2 Meiji Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN guardboat Ojima Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN gunboat Hokoku Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 1 Un'yo Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 6 Nissen Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Taisei Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Shimofusa Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Osaki Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Shichiyo Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Imizu Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Setagawa Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Eiho Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 5 Kaisei Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Saito Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 2 Seikan Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 3 Seikan Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 4 Seikan Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel No. 10 Seikan Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Tsugaru Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Shoho Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Hiran Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Senzan Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Japanese vessel Awa Maru sunk by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN destroyer Yanagi, Coast Defense Vessel No. 205, and Coast Defense Vessel No. 215 damaged by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary sub chaser Cha-72 and guardboat Miya Maru damaged by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

IJN auxiliary minesweepers Minakami Maru and No.1 Tamazono Maru damaged by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

Two dozen other Japanese vessels damaged by carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38
   Naval operations in Japanese waters
   Air operations over the Japanese Home Islands, 1942-1945

In the first USN surface warship bombardment of Japan, Task Unit 34.8.1 with battleships Indiana, Massachusetts, and South Dakota, two heavy cruisers, and nine destroyers bombards Kamaishi on Honshu
   Naval operations in Japanese waters

Japanese vessel Senju Maru sunk by mine
   Naval operations in Japanese waters

Japanese vessel Kiukiang Maru sunk by mine
   Naval operations in Japanese waters

China
US FEAF fighters conduct sweep across north China coast
   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
   Air operations over China, 1937-1945

French Indochina
US 14th Air Force fighters attacks targets in Tonkin
   Operations in Indo-China, 1945
   Air operations in the China - Burma - India theater


Dates are local to the time zone in which the event occurred, but discrepancies and inconsistencies abound throughout the sources, especially when events ocurred shortly before or after midnight.

Entries on file for this date: 52
Total entries on file: 60,291
Updated: 21:34 Pacific Time on 15 May 2013

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Principal sources for this War Diary
Alden. U.S. Submarine Attacks during World War II
Argyle. Chronology of World War II
Brown. Warship Losses of World War Two
Browning. US Merchant Vessel Casualties of World War II
Carter and Mueller. Combat Chronology, 1941-1945
Cressman. The Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II
Edelheit and Edelheit. A World in Turmoil
Foreman. Fighter Command War Diaries (five volumes)
Goralski. World War II Almanac, 1931-1945
Hague. The Allied Convoy System
Hammel. Air War Europa
Hammel. Air War Pacific
Hauner. Hitler: A Chronology of His Life and Time
Kay. Chronology: New Zealand in the War, 1939-1946
Middlebrook and Everitt. Bomber Command War Diaries
Niestle. German U-Boat Losses during World War II
Rohwer. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two
Rohwer. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two
Rohwer. Chronology of the War at Sea
Salmaggi and Pallavisini. 2194 Days of War
Sommerville. World War II Day by Day
Swain. A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at War, 1939-45
Taylor. Barbarossa to Berlin (two volumes)
Williams. Chronology, 1941-1945
Young. Britain's Sea War

Various other Chronology volumes also served as sources.

Many additional volumes were consulted for specific topics.
 

 

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