SUNDAY, 20 MAY 1945
CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 55 P-51s and P-40s pound truck
concentrations, fuel dumps, gun positions, supply areas, troops, bridges, rail,
road, and river traffic, and various targets of opportunity around Liping, Yangchi,
Siangtan, Yoyang, Yungfengshih, Paoching, Taohwaping, Hengyang, Tungkow, and
Changsha.
INDIA-BURMA THEATER (Tenth Air Force): In India, the detachment of the 317th
Troop Carrier Squadron (Commando), 2d Air Commando Group, operating from Comilla
with C-47s, returns to base at Kalaikunda.
AAFPOA Seventh Air Force: Ten Guam based B-24s hit air operations buildings
on Marcus. The 396th and 820th Bombardment Squadrons
(Medium), 41st Bombardment Group (Medium), begin a movement from Wheeler Field to Okinawa with B-25s. VII Fighter Command: 16 Saipan based P-47s
strafe on Moen Airfield and Eten Airfield and Dublon Seaplane Base and barges off Dublon. In Japan, 9 P-47s from Ie Shima hit a hangar and
2 boats at Fukue-Shima and 32 others hit airfields, railroads, buildings and
radar facilities on Kyushu.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Mission 179: During the night of 20/21 May, 30
B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait, Maizuru Harbor, and He-Saki anchorage; 1 B-29
is lost.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: Despite bad weather
B-25s over Formosa bomb various communications targets and an alcohol plant
at Meiji. B-25s, A-20s, and fighter-bombers pound the Cagayan Valley targets
on Luzon Island. On Mindanao Island, B-24s bomb Piso Point, and fighter- bombers
support ground action in the Bukidnon area. In Borneo, P-38s hit Sandakan, Keningau,
and Tarakan while B-25s hit shipping at Balikpapan Harbor and a nearby
barracks area and sawmill. HQ 375th Troop Carrier Group moves from San Jose to Porac.
RAAF - Crashed on take off is B-24M Liberator A72-160 (KIA).
