The Japanese Imperial Navy launched an ill advised doomed kamikaze attack with ten warships, including the Yamato off of Okinawa. The Yamato was sun k with a loss of 2,055 of its 2,332 crewmembers, and five other Japanese ships went down as well.
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The Luftwaffe also engaged in a suicide mission, sending out 120 student pilots about against a 1,000 plane US raid. They were to ram their aircraft into the Americans ones, and hopefully parachute out.
Most of the pilots missed their targets and most were shot down.
Operation Amherst commenced which saw the Free French and SAS launch an effort to capture Dutch canals, bridges and airfields intact.
Kantarō Suzuki replaced Kuniaki Koiso as Prime Minister of Japan.
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