http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/5/29.htm
June 29th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Marmion commissioned.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague: The government cedes 4,781 square miles of Ruthenia to the USSR.
JAPAN: Two missions are flown during the night of 29/30 June by Twentieth Air Force B-29s without loss:.
Mission 238: 32 B-29s drop 209 tons of bombs on the Nippon Oil Company refinery at Kudamatsu, Japan.
Mission 239: 25 B-29s mine the W Shimonoseki Strait and waters around Maizuru and Sakata.
34 P-47s from Ie Shima Island hit airfields at Kanoya and Kushira on Kyushu Island, Japan with rockets and machinegun fire, and attack shipping while returning, claiming seven small vessels sunk.
US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateers based on Okinawa continue their nightly aerial mining missions off Korea.
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: Nine Liberators from No25 Squadron under Wing-Cmdr John Hampshire raided Malang in daylight. They staged through Corunna Downs (Western Australia) at 0800. Bombing began at 1422 in a tight box formation with 200 feet stepped down between each element of three aircraft. “The bomb pattern fell between the No1 Hangar and the barracks area at the southern side of the airfield, bracketing the main bomber strips. Interception by fighters was expected but no attempt was made and anti-aircraft fire, although encountered, burst well away from the Liberators” [Odgers p 476]. (Mike Mitchell)
U.S.A.: President Truman approves the invasion plans for the invasion of Japan. These plans provide for landings in southern Kyushu on November 1, 1945 to be followed by landings on Honshu near Tokyo on March 1, 1946. The first landings will utilize troops already in the Pacific Theater. The 2nd landings will include forces transferred from Europe. British and other Allied forces are included as support forces. British aircraft, in the VLR (very-long-range) “Tiger” bomber force, staging from Okinawa, are included. But no British or Imperial ground troops were to be used in either landing, though a “Commonwealth Corps” would have been a follow-on force for CORONET. (JN and MJS)
Destroyer USS Charles P Cecil commissioned.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Morden paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
That was a fascinating p9 article. I never before heard of German plans for a death ray, or that they invented base bleed artillery.
Lake Toplitz, where the rocket experiments were conducted, has been the place where a fictional hoard of Nazi gold was found. As I recall that was the story in Goldfinger about the gold bar Bond was given as “bait.”