July 11, 1945
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WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY 1945

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (Eleventh Air Force): Five B-24s radar-bomb Kataoka on Shimushu and four B-25s fly a shipping sweep and bomb a Otomae Bay fishery, scoring hits among the buildings.

AAF PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (Seventh Air Force): During the night of 11/12 Jul, two B-24s from Okinawa attack Byu Airfield and Miyazaki Airfield on Kyushu.

HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Mission 262: During the night of 11/12 Jul, 25 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and waters off Miyazu, Maizuru and Obama Island. In the first B-29 operation over Korea: two B-29s mine Pusan and Najin.

CHINA THEATER (AAF, China Theater) Fourteenth Air Force: 25 P-51s and P-40s attack bridges, troops, gun positions, rail traffic, rivercraft, coastal shipping, and various scattered targets at or near Nanchang, Kweiyi, Puchi, Tanchuk, and the Luichow Peninsula.

WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: P-51s sweep Kyushu. B-24s bomb Shinchiku Airfield. B-25s and fighter-bombers pound troop concentrations and defenses in the Cagayan Valley and B-24s pound troop concentrations on Negros. B-25s and P-38s pound highway targets in the Balikpapan area.

ZONE OF INTERIOR (Second Air Force): The 4th Reconnaissance Squadron (Long Range, Photographic), 311th Photographic Wing (attached to 6th Reconnaissance Group), moves from Hollandia to Tacloban with F-7s (the squadron is mapping areas of the SW and W Pacific).

U.S. Navy: Submarine Barb (SS-220) sinks Japanese guardboat No.15 Seiho Maru and merchant diesel sampan No.15 Seiho Maru off Hokkaido, 44°03'N, 146°30'E.

Submarine Kingfish (SS-234) sinks Japanese fishing boat Inari Maru off Maedate, Japan, 38°03'N, 142°29'E.

Mines sink Japanese escort destroyer Sakura off Osaka, 35°50'N, 135°20'E, and merchant cargo ship No.3 Takechi Maru near Shodo Jima, and damage merchant vessel Tatsutyuyu Maru off Senzaki.