The heaviest air raid on Japan of World War Two occured in which 800 B-29s dropped 6,000+ tons of incendiary bombs on various Japanese cities, resulting in 80,000 deaths.
Paul Tibbets reported to Gen. Curtis B. LeMay on the upcoming nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
The Potsdam Conference concluded. The Allies agreed to limit GErman industrial growth and to ratify the territorial changes already imposed by the Soviets. Henry Morgenthau's plan to make Germany an agrarian society was partially, but only partially endorsed.
Morgenthau was an agrarian at heart. So much so, in fact, that air travel caused him distress due to his viewing of so many roads and cities as an airplane passenger.
The Soviets agreed to enter the war against Japan.
The survivors of the USS Indianapolis were found by air.
King George VI received President Truman aboard the HMS Renown.
Norma Jeane Dougherty, aka Marilyn Monroe, signed a Contract with Bluebook Modeling Agency.
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