May 30, 1945
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WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 1945

CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): Seven B-25s pound railroad yards at Sinsiang and knock out a bridge at Sincheng; 28 fighter-bombers attack bridges, enemy positions, trucks, railroad targets, barracks, and general targets of opportunity around Anyang, Liuchow, Chingmen, Chungmow, Linfen, Huluehchen, Kweilin, Hsinganhsien, Leiyang, and Yenkoupu.

INDIA-BURMA THEATER (Tenth Air Force): The 90th Fighter Squadron, 80th Fighter Group moves from Moran to Dudhkundi, India with P-47s.

AAFPOA (Seventh Air Force): Ten B-24s from Guam hit Marcus Airfield.

HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Fourteen P-47s strafe barges at Truk; 28 P-47s from Ie Shima hit shipping and a lighthouse at Amami-O-Shima, and Okino Erabu, Ryukus Islands. The 320th Troop Carrier Squadron and 393d Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), 509th Composite Group, arrive at North Field from the US with C-47s, C-54s and B-29s respectively.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: On Formosa, 100+ B-24s pound Takao while fighters sweep the coastal areas and B-25s concentrate on the Shinei area. A-20s hit Cagayan Valley targets. B-24s and fighters hit several targets in Borneo, concentrating on Tawau personnel and supply area and the Ranau Airfield.

USMC - PBJ Mitcells bomb enemy installations at the Kibawe Trail near Davao. Lost is PBJ Mitchell 35243 (MIA) and PBJ Mitchell 35164 (MIA).

Australian Army: General Stanley G. Savige Commanding Officer (C. O.) II Corps took a reconnaissance flight over northern Bougainville including Porton observing pillboxes and bunkers and believed an amphibious landing by the 31st/51st Battalion at Porton Plantation would bypass these defenses and allow them to advance across the peninsula to Chindawon. The Australians incorrectly believed Porton Plantation was lightly defended and in early June 1944 began planning the operation.