11 Jun 1945


- USS Crevalle sank Hakusan Maru. ww2dbase [Crevalle | CPC]
- Czechoslovakian police and civilians continued to drive ethnic Germans out of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [CPC]
- James Franck and other Metallurgical Laboratory scientists issued the Franck Report, arguing for a demonstration of an atomic bomb before using it against an enemy target. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | CPC]
- USS Segundo sank Fukui Maru with 3 of 7 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Segundo | CPC]
- USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport off the coast of Korea in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
- USS Bailey arrived at Brunei Bay, Borneo, refueled, and departed the same day escorting a convoy of Australian troop ships and tankers bound for Morotai, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 6 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- USS Tirante attacked a Japanese freighter and claimed a kill; this sinking was not confirmed. ww2dbase [Tirante | CPC]
- Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Kure, Japan at 0902 hours, carrying 134 pilots and ground crew members of the Saeki Naval Air Group to Saiki, Japan, arriving at 1541 hours, then anchoring at nearby Onyujima at 1801 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- Submarines USS Silversides, USS Quillback, and USS Cabrilla arrived at Saipan in the Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Silversides | Cabrilla | Quillback | Saipan | DS]
- USS Caiman sank two Japanese schooners by gunfire in the southern South China Sea. ww2dbase [Caiman | South China Sea | CPC]
- Submarine USS Bowfin, patrolling the east coast of the Korean peninsula, torpedoed and sank the 1,900-ton passenger-cargo ship No. 3 Shinto Maru off Wonsan Harbor. ww2dbase [Bowfin | Sea of Japan | DS]
- US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Francis Gabreski married Kay Cochran in the United States. ww2dbase [Francis Gabreski | CPC]



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