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• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 arrived. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 began joint submarine-seaplane exercises in Nanao Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Nanao, Ishikawa | CPC]
• Essex-class carriers USS Yorktown and USS Shangri-La launched raids on Okinawa, Japan ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Shangri-La | Okinawa | DS]

• USS Capitaine fired four torpedoes at a small Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Capitaine | South China Sea | CPC]
• Submarines Flying Fish, Tinosa, and Bowfin, the Bob's Bobcats element of Hydeman's Hellcats, used FM sonar to transit the heavily mined Tsushima Strait to enter the previously inaccessible Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Bowfin | Tinosa | Flying Fish | Tsushima Strait | DS]

• USS Enterprise arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for repairs of extensive damage following being hit by two special attack aircraft off Okinawa. ww2dbase [Enterprise | Puget Sound Navy Yard | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

• USS Wake Island returned to her front line position off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]

6 Jun 1945 Interactive Map