A B-29 set a new coast to coast speed record, flying from Burbank, California to Brooklyn, New York in 5 hours, 27 minutes and 6 seconds.
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The legendary aviation mystery of Flight 19 occurred when five Grumman TBFs disappeared in a training flight between Florida and Bermuda, together with a PBM Mariner that was sent to look for the missing aircraft.
The PBM is believed to have exploded.
No doubt because none of the aircraft have ever been found, the mystery remains an enduring and popular one, and it is part of the Bermuda Triangle set of myths.
The French government nationalized five banks.
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A Walk In The Sun was released. I'm personally not a great fan of the movie, but many regard it as one of the greatest World War Two, and indeed war, films ever.
3 December 1945: The first landing and takeoff aboard an aircraft carrier by a jet-powered aircraft were made by Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown, M.B.E., D.S.C., R.N.V.R., Chief Naval Test Pilot at RAE Farnborough, while flying a de Havilland DH.100 Sea Vampire Mk.10, LZ551/G. The ship was the Royal Navy Colossus-class light aircraft carrier, HMS Ocean (R68), under the command of Captain Casper John, R.N.
The Arab League voted to boycott all goods from Jewish Palestine.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided International Shoe Co. v. Washington holding that held that a party may be subject to the jurisdiction of a state court if it has "minimum contacts" with that state.
This ad appeared in Sheridan's newspaper:
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The Schneider Cup seaplane race was held in the US for the first time Lt. Jimmy Doolittle won, flying a Curtiss R3C.
This uniformed gentleman posted for a photograph.
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Gen. Eisenhower was relieved of command of the Third Army and put in head of a military history detail due to his remarks about denazification.
United States Marshal Fred A. Canfil sent a gift to his friend Harry S. Truman of a painted glass sign mounted on a walnut base with the phrase "The Buck Stops Here".
Admiral William Sample, age 47, was on a flight which disappeared near Wakayama, Japan.
Korea was removed from Japan's political and administrative control..
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It was a Saturday.
A real glimpse into how things have changed was provided by the denial of divorce story on the cover of the Tribune.
No fault divorce, as we've noted here before, did not exist at the time.
It shouldn't exist now.
The Saturday journals were out. Women seemed to be the theme.
French and Spanish ships and planes bombarded Ajdir, the Moroccan town on the Mediterranean that served as the capital of the Rif Republic.
Peruvian aviator Alejandro Velasco Astete became the first person to fly over the Andes.
The Navy was attempting to break a speed record.
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Japanese officials arrived in Manila to conclude the surrender there. They flew in two Mitsubishi G6M1- with green crosses rather than Japanese roundels.
The Red Army kept on with its war against Japan, landing at Maoka on South Sakhalin.
Chiang Kai-shek forbid Japanese forces from surrendering to the Red Chinese forces and demanded of the Communists that they not advance.
The Chinese Communist prevailed at Yongjiazhen. 1300 Warlord/Nationalist and twentyone Japanese troops were killed on the Nationalist side.. Ninety-eight Nationalist troops and twenty-one Japanese troops were captured.
The Red Army took Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain and linked up with Chinese Communist forces in the region.
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The news of the Atomic Bomb, including that it was just that, was now in the headlines.
Radio Tokyo reported the attack on Hiroshima, but without specificity.
Late in the day Japan's central commend stated that a new type of bomb was used, presuming that more than one was dropped.
U.S. radio read Truman's August 6 statement about the use of the atomic bomb. This caused the Japanese government to meet and confer.
The Air Force carried out raids on Yahata, Tokyo and Kukuyama.
The Nakajima Kikka, the Japanese ME262 inspired jet fighter, made its first flight.
Staff officers of the U.S. 1st Army met on Luzon to plan the invasion of Japan.
Tito refused to let King Peter II back into Yugoslavia.
The British revealed the existence of the wartime development Radar.
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Truman told Stalin that the US had a new and very powerful weapon that was going to be deployed against Japan, but did not provide the specifics.
Stalin, thanks to deep penetration of the US government by Soviet intelligence, already knew about the Manhattan Project and what it was about, so this was not that much of a surprise. Stalin had actually known about the Manhattan Project three years prior to Truman knowing about it.
The Navy began to bombard Kure, Japan.
The Japanese carried out the Kalagong massacre, killing villagers in the area after they failed to provide any information about guerrillas in the area.
The Japanese also murdered Peter To Rot, a Catholic from New Guinea, in a bizarre incidence demonstrating the severe Japanese anti Western view and, frankly, the Japanese debasement of the period, which not only reflected itself in murder, but in a chattel slavery view of women and sex. He was executed for defending a woman whom another planned to kidnap and force into a plural marriage, with the Japanese supporting plural marriages in New Guinea (they were not legal in Japan). He was arrested and then later murdered on this day. He will be canonized this October.
Japanese rocket propelled fighter the Mitsubishi J8M made its first flight under it's own power. The test flight was not really a success as the engine stalled. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka, was able to glide the power into a landing, but the plane hit a building. He died the following day.
The plane was intended as a licensed copy of the ME 163. Only seven were built.
Heloísa Pinheiro (Helô Pinheiro), who inspired The Girl from Ipanema, was born.
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Women could no longer be involuntarily discharged from the United States Armed Forces as a result of pregnancy, by orders of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
30 June 1975: The last operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport in service with the United States Air Force, 43-49507, was retired and flown to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
This Day In Aviation.
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While 23,000 Japanese troops remained in the field, in isolated areas, MacArthur announced that operations on Luzon were complete.
They weren't, really. The 8th Army and the Filipinos would remain to mop the remainder up.
The Soviet backed Provisional Government of National Unity in Poland, made up of the PPR: 7 ministers, Socialist Party: 6 ministers, People's Party: 3 ministers, PSL: 3 ministers and Democratic Party: 2 ministers, was formed.
The Polish Government in Exile did not recognize it, although several of its members were from the Government in Exile.
The last B-24 to be produced at Ford's Michigan Willow Run plant was completed.
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The longest British Parliament since the Cavalier Parliament of 1661–1679 was dissolved ahead of the July 5 elections. Parliament had been in session since 1935, as elections during the war had been suspended.
The Battle of Bessang Pass in the Philippines came to an end in an Allied victory.
It was the first flight of the XP-82, the Twin Mustang.
Coming too late for its intended role as an escort for B-29s in World War Two, it would see action during the Korean War before it was retired in 1953.
Today In Wyoming's History: June 15: 1945 Governor Leslie Hunt proclaimed to day Infantry Day.
Conflict, starring Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith and Sydney Greenstreet was released.
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