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• USS Puffer claimed the sinking of seven small Japanese vessels with her deck gun and another vessel with 2 torpedoes (1 hit) at Bali, Dutch East Indies, and then went on to bombard shore facilities. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• John Curtin passed away from heart disease. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Douglas MacArthur announced that the Philippine Islands had been liberated. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Britain citizens went to the polls. The results, which would yield a Labour Party victory over Winston Churchill's Conservative Party, would not be declared until 26 Jul 1945. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Sterlet departed Midway for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• American B-24 bombers based on Okinawa, Japan bombed the Omura-Nagasaki area in the Japanese home islands. On the same day, more than 100 American fighters based on Iwo Jima, Japan attacked targets in eastern Honshu in the Japanese home islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Shamrock Bay departed San Pedro Bay in the Philippine Islands for Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• A US aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight over Taichu West Airfield ("Toyohara") in central Taiwan. It was concluded that the airfield was nearing completion. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Hoe completed her overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States and departed for the western Pacific. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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