16 Jun 1945
- USS Tunny sighted life rafts from a Japanese ship that was sunk by USS Bonefish; from the survivors she captured a chief petty officer for interrogation. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Wake Island was removed from the front lines at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Twiggs was sunk by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
- Lavrentiy Beria gathered the conclusive evidence of Adolf Hitler's death and reported this to Joseph Stalin. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Springer arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Capitaine rescued five survivors of a sunken Japanese merchant ship. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Columbia arrived at Leyte, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- USS Ray arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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