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June 23rd, 1945 (SATURDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: U-1003 scuttled in the North Channel some 8 - 10 miles north of Inistrahull beacon (Malin Head), in position 55.25N, 06.53W, after ramming with Canadian frigate HMCS New Glasgow on 20 March 1945.
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Poland’s immediate future has been settled after the two rival groups claiming the right to rule Poland came to an agreement today. American and British objections to the Soviet-sponsored regime of the Lublin Committee have been partly met by including three exiles from London. One of them is Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the former premier, who is to be deputy premier.
Two non-Communists from within Poland are also included. Power will thus be shared between the Communists and their opponents more equitably than the western governments had thought possible. The deal, suggested to Stalin by President Truman’s emissary, Harry Hopkins, should ease the tension between the Big Three.
JAPAN: US General Stillwell is appointed to command the US 10th Army on Okinawa. He replaces US General Simon Buckner who was KIA by an artillery round on the 20th. (Marc Small)
The USAAF’s XXI Bomber Command in the Marianas flies Mission 221: During the night of 23/24 June, 26 B-29s mine the harbors of Fukuoka, Karatsu, Sakai, and Niigata, Japan; one B-29 is lost.
USN PB4Y-2 Privateers again mine the waters off Korea.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: There is a paratroop landing by the US 511th PIR near Aparri on the north coast of Luzon, in the Philippine Islands. It is near the mouth of the Cagayan River. The paratroops link up with the Filipino guerrilla forces to cut off the Japanese.
CANADA: HM S/M Seawolf paid off.
HMC ML 051 paid off and assigned to National Research Council as Radal II.
Minesweeper HMCS Milltown departed Halifax for Devonport via Azores.
U.S.A.: San Francisco: The Big Four powers agree to admit Poland to the United Nations.
The 1935 motion picture “The Call of the Wild” is re-released in the U.S. This romantic adventure film, based on a Jack London novel, is directed by William Wellman and stars Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie. Gable plays a prospector heading for the Yukon gold fields who meets and romances a woman (Young) en-route.
Destroyer USS Harold J Ellison commissioned.
Quite a day.