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Early Losses Low (Parrott) – 2-3
Balik Papan Area Rich in Oil – 3
Greece Defends Drastic Measures (Sedgwick) – 3
4,000 Tons of Fire Missiles Bring Ruin to 4 Enemy Cities (Moscow) – 4-5
Advances Squeeze Foe in Luzon Hills – 5
U.S. Navy Rounds Epic of Macassar – 5
Okinawa Invasion Balked Baka Bomb – 6
Military Field Mass Celebrated at Naval Center (w/photo) – 6
Accident and Enemy Suicide: They Strike Two Units of Our Pacific Fleet (photos) – 7-8
War News Summarized – 7
Chinese Win Isle Off South Coast – 9
Japanese Revive 20 Year War Talk – 10
3 Polish Bureaus to Stay in London – 10
Our Chemical War Arm (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/02.htm

July 2nd, 1945 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: London: Mountbatten is ordered to launch Operation Zipper, the liberation of Malaya in August.

GERMANY: A “Special Statement of Fact” memo to SMGO (Senior Military Government Officer) Det. F1H2, in the American Zone, is issued on the subject of an “Asylum at Kaufbeuren, Swabia”.

Although this is two months after the end of the war and the insane asylum was within “rifle shot” of a US Army Military Government detachment, inmates were still dying by the nurses’ actions of “slow starvation”, and “fast starvation.” “A more of less alive boy weighed 10 kilos.”

(Stan Sandler from [Det F1F3] “Special Statment of Fact, 2 July (sic), ibid., memo to SMGO [Senior Military Government Officer] Det. F1H2, Subject: “Asylum at Kaufbeuren, Swabia, 5 July 1945; memo, Regional Military Governor, Headquarters, Regional Military Government, Bavaria, Subject: “Report on Kaufbeuren (Murder Camp)”, 7 July 1945, RG 332, ECAD, 1944-45, box 54, “Detachment F1F3 folder. (Apparently the US Holocaust Museum also has documentation on this episode.))
JAPAN: During the night of 2/3 July, the Twentieth Air Force flies Mission 245; 39 B-29s bomb an oil refinery at Minoshima, Japan and one other hits and alternate target.

In the first mission of its kind, the submarine USS Barb (SS-220) surfaces and launches rockets at Japanese shore installations on Kaiyho Island.

BORNEO: The US Thirteenth Air Force supports Australian troops in Borneo. B-24s bomb defenses in the Balikpapan area, P-38s and carrier based Navy and Marine aircraft support Australian forces as they complete the capture of Balikpapan and its oil installations and B-25s hit the Bintula personnel area.

CANADA: Cruiser HMCS Ontario departed the Clyde for 4th Cruiser Sqn of the British Pacific Fleet.
Minesweepers HMCS Ingonish and Lockeport paid off and returned to RN at Sheerness.
Corvettes HMCS Orillia and Riviere Du Loup paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
HMC ML 092, 093, 097 and 099 paid off.

DD 577 claims sinking midget submarine

Info on suicide submarines. It wasn’t just from the air. This would have been effective in the fog of an invasion. There are pictures of these awaiting the invasion.

http://worldwar42.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-war-2-japanese-suicide-submarines.html

The USS Underhill was hit by one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Underhill_(DE-682)#Underhill_sinkinghttp://www.ussunderhill.org/html/about_uss_underhill.html