SUNDAY, 22 JULY 1945
Twentieth Air Force: A bombing and a mining mission are flown during the night
of 23/24 Jul; 1 B-29 is lost. Mission 282: 23 B-29s, staging through Iwo Jima, mine Shimonoseki Strait and
the Korean coast at Najin-which in the longest B-29 combat mission of the war-and
in the Pusan-Masan, Korea area; 1 B-29 is lost. Mission 283: 72 B-29s bomb the
coal liquefaction company at the Imperial Fuel Industry Company at Ube. 100+ Iwo Jima based P-51s hit airfields, rail installations, and other tactical
targets at Itami, Hanshin, Sano, Tokushima, Takamatsu, and Minato, Japan.
CHINA THEATER (AAF, China Theater) Fourteenth Air Force: In China, 16 B-25s
and 8 fighter-bombers blast truck convoys moving supplies through the Siang
Chiang Valley, bomb railroad yards at Siaokan, and knock out 2 bridges S of
Sincheng and Lohochai. 50+ P-51s, P-47s, and P-38s continue the campaign to
disrupt enemy movement and withdrawal in French Indochina and S and E China,
pounding numerous rail, road, and river targets, supply dumps, and coastal shipping.
WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: In China, 22 B-24s from Okinawa
hit Chiang Wan and 1 hits Tinghai Airfield, 37 B-25s bomb an oil plant at Shanghai and a destroyer in the Whangpoo River, P-47s from Ie Shima join the B-25 attack
on the Shanghai area, hitting a destroyer, gunboat, and freighter in the Whangpoo
River, and factories and railroad shops, 34 P-51s from Okinawa also hit Whangpoo
shipping and 37 A-26s hit the airfield at Tachang. B-24s on a night shipping
search and weather mission bomb airfields at Tinghai and on Chusan Island, China; Pusan, Korea; and Yonago, Japan. On Luzon,
B-25s, P-51s, and P-38s, hampered by bad weather, fly 30+ ground support sorties
in the Gubano, Cervantes, and Mankayan areas. Unit moves: HQ 322d Troop Carrier
Wing from Hollandia to Manila; air echelon of 26th Photographic
Reconnaissance Squadron, 6th Reconnaissance Group from Lingayen Airfield to Clark
Field with F-5s (ground echelon at Lingayen Airfield); 311th Troop Carrier Squadron,
Seventh AF, begins a movement from Bellows Field to Okinawa with C-47s;
403d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 43d Bombardment Group (Heavy) moves from Clark
Field to Ie Shima with B-24s.
