Posted on 06/28/2015 5:06:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division World War II
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/5/28.htm
June 28th, 1945 (THURSDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
Minesweeper HMS Bramble commissioned.
Rescue tug HMS Warden launched. 9DS)
POLAND: Warsaw: The Government of National Unity is formed; it includes several members of the old London-based Polish government in exile.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: MacArthur”> MacArthur announces that US offensive operations on Luzon, Philippine Islands are complete. It has been 5 months and 19 days since the invasion. Operations against the remaining 23,000 Japanese troops will continue until the end of the war. Most of this fighting will be left to Filipino units. Mindanao is the only other island of the Philippines with significant bodies of Japanese capable of organized resistance.
JAPAN: The Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands dispatches 487 B-29s to fly four incendiary missions against secondary Japanese cities during the night of 28/29 June; one B-29 is lost.
Mission 234: 138 B-29s attack Okayama destroying 2.13 square miles (5.52 square km), 63% of the city area; one B-29 is lost.
Mission 235: 141 B-29s hit Sasebo destroying 0.97 square miles (2.51 square km), 48% of the city area; 2 other B-29s hit alternate targets.
Mission 236: 91 B-29s attack Moji destroying 0.302 square miles (0.782 square km), 26.9% of the city area; 3 B-29s hit alternate targets.
Mission 237: 117 B-29s hit Nobeoka destroying 0.52 square miles (1.35 square km), 36% of the city area.
39 P-47s from Ie Shima attack shipping at Koniya, Japan with rocket and bombing and hit Tokuno Island with rockets and machinegun fire; 26 more hit targets of opportunity in the Sakishima Archipelago including vessels, docks, an airfield, floatplane, and village.
US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateers based on Okinawa continue mining operations off Korea.
BORNEO: During the night, the bombardment flotilla for the Balikpapen, Borneo invasion is attacked by five to seven land-based Japanese torpedo bombers but they score no hits and three aircraft are shot down.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS La Malbaie and Sherbrooke paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
U.S.A.: The motion picture “Blood on the Sun” is released in the U.S. This war drama, directed by Frank Lloyd, stars James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Rosemary DeCamp. Cagney is a newspaper reporter in Japan during the 1930s who writes stories that the officials do not like. When they think he has some valuable information, they decide to “interrogate” him. The film won a technical Academy Award.
Submarine USS Clamagore commissioned.
Destroyer USS Meredith launched.
A remake of this was released last year, but I have not seen it, so I don't know how it treats the subject from a 70-year distance.
Interesting - thanks for posting.
For those who haven’t the time to read the history of a brewery, here’s one of the key paragraphs about the demise (after a crippling delivery driver’s strike) of what was once (according to the article) one of the major suppliers of beer in the world:
“That was bad enough, but what killed Trommer’s was not spending the money or even the competition. It was the yeast. Each brewery develops its own unique strain of yeast for fermentation. The strikers didn’t take care of the yeast when they took over the plants, and the strain died. When the strike was over, Trommer’s had to begin a new strain of yeast. The taste of the beer was radically different, and people didn’t like it.”
Good thing the SEIU wasn’t around to take notes, though I expect they (and others of their union buddies) will do fine killing off enterprises on their own.
Major Radovich
MAJ. RADOVICH GETS 3 YEARS IN $7,000 BRIBERY
NEW YORK (UP) (Jul. 7, 1945) - Maj. Walter V. Radovich, 24, of Los Angeles, Cal., much-decorated combat flyer who shot down four Japanese planes, was convicted by an Army court-martial at Mitchel Field here, of charges that he accepted $7,000 to keep two enlisted men from being sent overseas.
The major was sentenced to dismissal from the service and three years’ imprisonment. Radovich’s counsel, former Judge Advocate Gen. Samuel Ansell, declined to call any defense witnesses on the ground that he could not offer a defense unless, he said, certain secret and confidential records were made available . He said Radovich was being sacrificed to protect other officers.
http://www.militarycorruption.com/flashback.htm
That was bad enough, but what killed Trommer’s was not spending the money or even the competition. It was the yeast. Each brewery develops its own unique strain of yeast for fermentation. The strikers didn’t take care of the yeast when they took over the plants, and the strain died.
Arriving, Bunker Hill was still in the yard when the war ended in August.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) - Final Years:
Putting to sea in September, Bunker Hill served in Operation Magic Carpet which worked to return American servicemen home from overseas. Deactivated in January 1946, the carrier remained at Bremerton and was decommissioned on January 9, 1947. Though reclassified several times over the next two decades, Bunker Hill was kept in reserve. Removed from the Naval Vessel Register in November 1966, the carrier saw use as a stationary electronics test platform at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego until being sold for scrap in 1973. Along with USS Franklin (CV-13), which was also badly damaged late in the war, Bunker Hill was one of two Essex-class carriers that saw no active service with the postwar US Navy.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiwarships/p/World-War-Ii-Uss-Bunker-Hill-cv-17.htm
Submarine USS Clamagore commissioned.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20131101/PC05/131109858
Interesting blurb in the Nimitz Graybook about the Antares sighting a midget sub. That was not the first encounter between Antares and a Japanese midget sub; as Antares entered the channel into Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, she was trailed by a midget submarine that was sighted and attacked by USS Ward. The first shots fired by the United States in World War 2.
Thanks for the link about Trommers. With the rise of local craft beers, I like to read stories about the old regional breweries like Ballantine and Hudepohl that were everywhere until they all seemed to vanish between the 1960s and 1980s. The craft breweries are a return to that era of locally brewed beers. Some of them are good, some not so much. Like Hudepohl.
page 11 would be called racist today
As I recall there was some skepticism that the Ward really had scuffled with a sub due to no sub and no debris. That was until a team located the sunken sub on the seabed outside Pearl.
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