[Homer_J_Simpson]

Election Stressed (Warren, Gruson) – 2
Statements on Poland – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
U.S. Seizes Farben Plants to Bar Reich Arms Output (Middleton) – 4
Russians in Berlin in Billets of U.S. (Daniell) – 4-5
M’Arthur Planes Shift to Okinawa to Attack Japan (Parrott) – 5-6
Big Airdrome Won near Balik Papan (Parrott) – 6
A Call to Surrender and a Joyful Reunion on Okinawa (photos) – 7-8
Spaatz to Direct New B-29 Set-Up (Shalett) – 8
Ship Afire Beats 7 Suicide Planes – 8-9
Chinese Threaten 3 Ex-U.S. Air Bases – 9
During Closing Hours of the Election in England (photos) – 10
Balloting is Heavy in British Election (by Herbert L. Matthews) – 10-11
In Berlin: Ruins from Allied Attacks – Children View American Tank (photos) – 11-12
Churchill Plans to Take Vacation Abroad, Possibly in France, Before Big 3 Meeting (by Clifton Daniel) – 12
New War Year for China (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 14
Chief of Falange Hits Party System – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/06.htm

July 6th, 1945 (FRIDAY)

GERMANY: Berlin: The Allied occupation forces hold a victory parade.

CHINA: Major-General Claire L. Chennault resigns his command of the Sino-US Fourteenth Army Air Force in protest at plans to disband it. He is soon granted permission to retire.
JAPAN: Taking off from bases in the Marianas during the late evening hours of 6 July, 517 Twentieth Air Force B-29s make four incendiary and 1 high explosive attacks between 0700 and 0800 hours local on 7 July; 1 B-29 is lost:

Mission 251: 124 B-29s attack the Chiba urban area destroying 0.86 sq miles (2.23 sq km), 43.4% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 252: 123 B-29s hit the Akashi urban area destroying 0.81 sq miles (1.7 sq km), 57.0% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 253: 133 B-29s attack the Shimizu urban area destroying 0.71 sq miles (1.49 sq km), 50% of the city; 1 B-29 is lost.

Mission 254: 131 B-29s hit the Kofu urban area destroying 1.3 sq miles (2.7 sq km), 65% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 255: 59 B-29s drop 500-pound (227 kg) bombs on the Maruzen Oil Refinery at Wakayama; 1 other hits an alternate target.

110 Iwo Jima-based P-51s attack airfields in the Tokyo area (Kumagaya, Yamagata, and Chiba); they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 6-25 on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost.

U.S.A.: Washington: The US chiefs of staff have today authorized a special operation known as Overcast. Its purpose is to exploit “chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use” from among German scientists. The Allies have recognized that the Germans are ahead of them in many fields of science. One example is rocketry, and the V-weapon expert Wernher von Braun and his fellow researchers have already been gathered together to prevent them falling into Soviet hands. This concern applies to other scientists as well.

CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Algoma, Summerside and Ville de Quebec paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

Destroyer HMCS Hamilton departs Sydney, Nova Scotia, under tow for scrapping Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Managua: Nicaragua is the first nation to ratify the United Nations Charter.

[Larry Lucido]

In 1945 a 25-year-old Karol Józef Wojtyla was studying for the priesthood. (It is reported that he also helped numerous Jews escape the Nazis).

Lech Walesa was not quite two years old.