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Daily Talks Go On (Daniell) – 2
Change by Truman in Pacific Doubted (Reston) – 2-3
A Symbol of American Victory in Germany as Conference Goes On (photos) – 3-4
Nuremberg Tentatively Selected as the Site for Major War Trials (Daniel) – 4
Accused Germans Live as in Prison (Tucker) – 5-6
Nazi Die-Hards Mar Victory Celebration in Holland (photo) – 5
Orders Vacations under Cutbacks – 6
War News Summarized – 6
M’Arthur Fliers Hit 30 Ships; Strike Over Coast of Malaya – 7
Fleet’s Challenge Off Tokyo Bay Fails to Stir Japanese to Action (Lawrence) – 7
In an American Red Cross Tent on Okinawa (photo) * – 8
Chinese Vanguard Mile from Kweilin – 9
India-China Route Running Smoothly (by Joseph J. Ryan, first-time contributor) – 10-11
Navy’s New Giant Flying Boat ‘Hawaii Mars’ is Launched (photo) – 11
Super Flying Boat Launched for War – 11
Japan is Warned to Give Up Soon (by Jay Walz) – 12
The Youngest Station Agent on the Line – 12
Capt. Zacharias’ Broadcast – 13
Churchill Mistakes Cheers for Attlee – 14
The Veteran (by Charles Hurd) – 15
Methodists Ordain Women in Britain (by Herbert L. Matthews) – 15
Score Public Use of Kaiser Hospital – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 16

The News of the Week in Review
The “Pre-Invasion Phase” of the Battle of Japan (map, photos) – 17
Blow on Blow – 18-19
Fifteen News Questions – 20
“Three Faces East” (cartoon) – 21
Three Big Uncertainties at Big Three Meeting (Reston) – 22-23
New Perch for the Eagle (cartoon) – 23
“Fenced In” (cartoon) – 23
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 23
Japan’s Defensive Position: Her Army is Her Chief Strength (map) – 24
Japan’s Main Defense is Her Powerful Army (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 25

* I searched Monroe Sweetland, expecting to learn about a popular country recording artist. Wrong-o.

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/22.htm

July 22nd, 1945 (SUNDAY)
JAPAN: In the Kurile Islands, Task Force 92, the light cruisers USS Concord (CL-10), USS Richmond (CL-9) and USS Trenton (CL-11) plus support destroyers, bombards Suribachi on Paramushiru Island. Suribachi has one of the best harbours on Paramushiru.

Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses fly a bombing and a mining mission during the night of 23/24 July; 1 B-29 is lost.

- Mission 282: 23 B-29s, staging through Iwo Jima, mine Shimonoseki Strait and the Korean coast at Najin (which is the longest B-29 combat mission of the war) and in the Pusan-Masan, Korea area; 1 B-29 is lost.

- Mission 283: 72 B-29s bomb the coal liquefaction company at the Imperial Fuel Industry Company at Ube, Japan.

- 100+ Iwo Jima Island-based P-51s hit airfields, rail installations, and other tactical targets at Itami, Hanshin, Sano, Tokushima, Takamatsu, and Minato, Japan.

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: Wing-Commander John Hampshire leads nine B-24s from 25 Squadron RAAF to attack Semarang in daylight. This was one of a series of raids with smoke that could be seen on the southern coast of Java. (Mike Mitchell)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Frontenac paid off Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Corvette HMCS Camrose paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Corvette HMCS Kamsack paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.