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.
Just awaiting someone to post so I can disagree.
RE: the Hawaii Mars story on page 11.
Only 7 of the Mars flying boats saw service and two still exist. Destined for the scrappers the last four Mars flying boats were bough by a Canadian group to fight forest fires in British Columbia in 1959 for the sum of about $250,000. Included were several boxcars of spare parts and drawings.
Marianas Mars was lost while conducting a fire suppression mission in 1961 with the loss of all four crew members. Caroline Mars was damaged beyond repair in a typhoon in 1962.
Philippine Mars and Hawaii Mars took up the fire fighting missions. Philippine Mars has retired from it’s forest fire fighting duties and is being restored as a museum piece. Hawaii Mars is still seeing some action as a forest fire bomber but is slated for museum service in the near future.
Links for the Mars:
Wiki entry...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_JRM_Mars
You Tube colorfull example...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDSLh53Ppw
Link to original Kodachrome!!! documentary film on the 6th Marine Division during the Okinawa battle...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpeVzZB2aM
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