July 23, 1945
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MONDAY, 23 JULY 1945

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (Eleventh Air Force): Two B-24s radar-bomb Kurabu Cape Airfield on Paramushiru.

Tenth Air Force: Headquarters (HQ), 10th Air Force moves to Kunming.

Fourteenth Air Force: 8 B-25s and 4 P-51s bomb the railroad yards at Sinyang and hit a warehouse at Ichang, China. 100+ P-51s, P-38s, and P-40s attack numerous targets, including rail, road, and river traffic, airfields, coastal shipping, bridges, storage facilities, and railroad yards, at many locations over S and E China, especially in the Paoching area and, to a smaller degree, over French Indochina. The 115th Liaison Squadron, Fourteenth AF, moves from Chengkung to Hsingchiang, China with L-1s, L-4s and L-5s.

WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-25s pound Jesselton while B-24s over other areas of the Netherlands East Indies bomb Amboina and the Tolonoeoe Islands. Fighter aircraft support ground forces in the Kiangan area. B-25s bomb Itu Aba Island, China. B-24s hit Miho and Saeki, Japan. Single B-24s on armed reconnaissance hit several targets including Tinghai Airfield in China, Kure Harbor and Tanega Island in the Ryukyu Islands. B-24s from 5th Air Force on anti-shipping sweep off south coast of Korea sink Japanese merchant tanker No.15 Horai Maru off Hokko, 36°02'N, 129°23'E.

U.S. Navy: DesRon 61 concludes its engagement with a Japanese convoy off Sagami Bay, sinking No.3 Hakutetsu Maru off Mora, Chiba prefecture, 34°54'N, 139°50'E.

Submarine Barb (SS-220) lands an eight-man commando party which blows up a Japanese train on east coast of Karafuto.

Submarine Hardhead (SS-365) sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 117 off Java, N.E.I., 08°10'S, 115°29'E.

Submarine Sea Poacher (SS-406) sinks Japanese guardboat No.2 Kiri Maru between Onoosaki and Shoyasaki, Japan, 37°16'N, 141°04'E.

Mines sink Japanese guardboat No.2 Taisho Maru off Chinhae, Korea; merchant tug Kaiko Maru and cargo ship Shoko Maru off Niigata; merchant cargo ships No.1 Taiha Maru and No.2 Taishin Maru off Moji; No.6 Nissho Maru, Kammon Strait; Yamadori Maru outside Wakamatsu harbor, and merchant cargo ship No.2 Tsurukawa Maru off Wakamatsu, and merchant vessel Kocho Maru off Mutsure; and damage merchant cargo ship Gizan Maru near Moji.

Japanese merchant cargo ship No.5 Adaka Maru is damaged by aircraft, 34°36'N, 130°55'E.

RAAF: Lost is Hudson A16-47 pilot F/Lt Lancelot E. H. Clarke (MIA).

RNZAF: Crashed on take off is F4U NZ5262 pilot FSgt D. Howlett (WIA).