Fourteenth Air Force. 3 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-25 Mitchell medium bombers and 60 P-47 Thunderbolt fighters,
P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers, and P-40 fighters damage 4 bridges,
hit river shipping, pound town areas and villages, and attack
various targets around Hwayuan, Changte, Suchow, Sinyang,
Hankow, Laohokow, Nanyang, Tatung, Tashihkiao, Pinyang, Luchai,
Kiehsiu, Linfen, Tsinan, and Shihkiachwang.
Far East Air Force (FEAF). Labuan Island is bombed by United
States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.
Other heavy bombers drop napalm on Brooketon. Fighter-bombers
hit Cagayan Valley targets and support ground forces in Cervantes
areas as ground forces penetrate last defensive position on
Mindanao. Bad weather cancels operations North of the Philippine
Islands.
Twentieth Air Force. 110 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber's attack aircraft factories
at Nagoya, Akashi, and Narao. 26 others mine Shimonoseki Strait
during
8-9 June
1945.
Seventh Air Force. 20 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
P-47 Thunderbolt fighters from Ie Shima strafe various targets
on Kyushu.
VII Fighter Command. 57 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
fighters from Iwo Jima pound Kagamigahara airfield and surrounding
area. 20 parked aeroplanes are claimed destroyed damaged.
Eleventh Air Force. In coordination with Navy surface and
air forces attacking in the Kurils, 6 United States Army Air
Force (USAAF) B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and 8 B-25 Mitchell
medium bombers fly extensive armed weather reconnaissance
and anti-shipping sweeps over Kurabu and Otomari Capes, Ichinowatashi,
and Asahigawa. The B-24 Liberator heavy bombers score no results,
half of them jettisoning their bombs. The B-25 Mitchell medium
bombers then fly a diversionary bombing mission over Araido
where they are attacked by 8 fighters. To evade them, the
B-25 Mitchell medium bombers fly over Kamchatka where Soviet
antiaircraft fire shoots down one, killing its crew. Another
damaged B-25 Mitchell medium bombers crash lands in Petropavlovsk.
This is the first time Soviet antiaircraft hits a United States
aircraft.
Go To: 10th
June
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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