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| 24/01/1945 |
The Royal Navy's Fleet
Air Arm carrier planes destroy the Japanese oil refinery near
Palembang, on Sumatra. |
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A USN Task Force reports
pounding targets around Tokyo. |
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| 19/03/1945 |
The USN hit Kure naval
base in the Inland Sea, Southwest of Tokyo. |
| 25/03/1945 |
The U.S. Navy begins the pre-invasion
bombardment of Okinawa firing more than half a million shells
and rockets in a week. |
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| 03/04/1945 |
Admiral Nimitz is appointed
as C-in-C of all naval forces in the Pacific. |
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| 06/04/1945 |
The U.S. fleet off Okinawa is hit
by the first suicide raid, code named ‘Floating Chrysanthemum
I’. During this attack, three destroyers are sunk, while
116 Japanese aircraft are destroyed. |
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| 07/04/1945 |
The battle of East China Sea begins
as U.S. aircraft from Task Force 58 sink the Japanese super-battleship
Yamato in a three-hour battle, 60 miles to the Southeast of
Japan. Japanese casualties are reported as 2,488 sailors killed,
four destroyers sunk, 58 aircraft destroyed. |
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| 13/04/1945 |
The U.S. Fleet begins the pre-invasion
bombardment of Ie Island in the Pacific. |
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| 04/05/1945 |
Kamikaze flyers sink 17
U.S. ships in 24 hours off Okinawa. |
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| 07/06/1945 |
The first allied cargo
ship for three years enters Wewak harbour, in New Guinea. |
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| 02/07/1945 |
The U.S. submarine Trenchant
sinks a Hagura Class Japanese cruiser in the Southwest Pacific. |
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| 14/07/1945 |
The U.S. Third Fleet shells Kamaishi,
275 miles north of Tokyo. |
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| 15/07/1945 |
The U.S. Third Fleet shells the steel
centre on Hokkaido Island in the Japanese homeland. It is reported
that 108,000 tons of shipping has been sunk in last two days
attacks. |
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| 18/07/1945 |
Allied carrier planes hit Japanese
naval forces in Tokyo Bay, sinking 12 ships and damaging nine,
including the battleship Nagato. |
| 23/07/1945 |
The Allies launch a massive 36-hour
air and sea bombardment of Kure naval base and other ports
on the Japanese coast from Osaka to Nagoya, sinking and escort
carrier and 12 other warships, as well as 84 cargo vessels
sunk or damaged and over 200 planes destroyed or damaged. |
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| 28/07/1945 |
The remnants of Japanese
battle fleet are destroyed in three days of attacks over the
Japanese Inland Sea, as the Americans deploy 2,000 carrier-planes
and bombers in action. |
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| 31/07/1945 |
A British midget submarine
attack on Singapore sinks the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao. |
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| 03/08/1945 |
The USN announce on Guam,
that the complete blockade of the Japanese homeland has now
been achieved. |
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| 06/08/1945 |
U.S. carrier aircraft from a naval
task group strike Japanese shipping in Tinghai Harbour, China.
U.S. carrier aircraft bomb Wake Island, Micronesia. |
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| 27/08/1945 |
One of the greatest international
armadas ever assembled, enters the Bay of Sagami, Tokyo. |
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| 30/08/1945 |
Two Japanese submarines, the largest
in the world (5,500 tons), surrender in Sagami Bay after completing
their first and only operational trip. |
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