MONDAY, 28 MAY 1945
CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): Nineteen B-25s, along with 8 fighter-bombers,
hit railroad, road, and river traffic around Vinh, Quang Tri, Dap Cau, and Song
Chu, French Indochina, knock out a bridge at Hwayuan and demolish a tunnel opening
near Wuchang. Sixteen P-51s cause heavy damage and casualties blasting
a bridge and military installations near Wuchang; 27 P-51s hit bridges, troops,
storage, trucks, trains, rivercraft, and other targets in the Yoyang area; 65
other fighter-bombers attack targets of opportunity at several locations throughout
S and E China; 15 photo reconnaissance aircraft continue to maintain good coverage
of enemy movements; the detachment of the 25th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter
Group, operating from Poseh with P-51s, returns to base at Yunnani.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Fighters from Iwo Jima hit Kasumigaura
Airfield with 6 planes claimed destroyed and 40+ damaged and P-47s fly
heckler strikes against Kyushu during the night of 28/29 May. The Japanese wage
their last strong air effort on Okinawa hitting a number of ships and sinking
the destroyer USS Drexler (DD-741).
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-24s again bomb the railroad yards east of Saigon at Phan Rang and Muong Man.
In Formosa, B-25s and fighter-bombers attack industrial targets of opportunity
at Shoka, Taichu, Ujitsu, Byoritsu, and other locations. B-24s,
B-25s, A-20s, and fighter-bombers attack Pateng, the Ipo Dam area, Tuguegarao and Ugae airstrips, Anuling, the Baguio area, guns and defenses in the Balete
Pass area, and support ground forces at several points. In Borneo, B-24s, B-25s,
and fighters hit gun positions and other targets at Balikpapan and P-38s dive-bomb Keningau and Jesselton Airfields. Unit moves: HQ 374th Troop Carrier Group from
Biak to Nielson
Field, Luzon; 550th Night Fighter Squadron,
XIII Fighter Command (attached to 85th Fighter Wing), based at Tacloban with P-38s, P-61s and P-70s, sends a detachment to operate from Sanga
Sanga (another detachment is operating from Zamboanga).
USN: Ditched is SB2C-4 Helldiver 19866 (crew rescued).
