July 29, 1945
Today in World War II Pacific History
Day by day chronology
SUNDAY, 29 JULY 1945
Twentieth Air Force: Mission 304: During the night of 29/30 Jul, 24 B-29s mine
Shimonoseki Strait and the waters at Fukuoka, Karatsu, and Najin; 2 others mine
alternate targets.
Fourteenth Air Force: In China, 4 B-25s and 2 P-51s hit shipping off Luichow
Peninsula near Cape Kami, barracks at Chingmen, and cannon-strafe trucks at
Kuanshuishih and oil storage at Yingtak. About 100 P-51s, P-38s, and P-61s attack
a variety of targets over a vast area from Haiphong to Peking continuing the steady campaign against enemy movement and withdrawal.
WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: P-47s from Ie Shima and B-24s,
B-25s, and A-26s from Okinawa pound targets in the Japanese Home Islands; 70+
B-24s pound shipping at Kure, 41 B-24s hit a factory and storage area NW of
Aburatsu, shipping and engine works in Nagasaki and vicinity, and the towns
of Nobeoka, Kyushu and Oita; B-25s hit Kagoshima, Kyushu, Kibana, a bridge,
barracks and other buildings at Miyazaki, warehouses, a lighthouse, and navigation
light at Tozaki-hana, and bomb Tokuno Shima; A-26s pound the naval base and
engine works at Nagasaki; numerous P-47s hit Kure Harbor, shipping and
seaplane station at Ibusuki, railroad station, docks, and town area of Makurazaki, Chiran Airfield and Izumi Airfields, and shipping at Kagoshima Bay. P-51s hit numerous
targets of opportunity on the southern coast of Korea and on the southern part of Kyushu,
where shipping, railroads, and Omura, Kyushu and Sashiki factories are also
attacked. B-24s hit Sidate Airfield and warehouses at Watampone on Celebes Island.
Other B-24s bomb resistance pocket south of Fabrica. On Luzon,
B-25s and P-38s hit Japanese positions near San Mariano and west of Kiangan, troop
concentrations in the Marikina watershed, and ridge emplacements in the Bantayan
area; several buildings are destroyed at Pasco Point. Unit moves: 17th Reconnaissance
Squadron (Bombardment), 71st Reconnaissance Group, from Lingayen Airfield to Ie
Shima with B-25s (detachment remains at Lingayen Airfield until Sep 45); 868th Bombardment
Squadron (Heavy), from Leyte to Okinawa with B-24s with airborne radar for low-level attacks at night and for pathfinder operations.
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