The Australian 9th Infantry Division captured Brunei.
Okinawa, June 13, 1945.
Japanese resistance on Okinawa's Oruku peninsula came to an end. Marines took 169 Japanese POWs and found 200 dead, a surprising figure given Japanese unwillingness to surrender.
Admiral Minoru Ōta, age 54, killed himself on Okinawa.
U.S. Army ordnance experts claimed that German plans to attack the United States with rockets, Projekt Amerika, might have been realized by November 1945.
The German design, a development of the V-2 but significantly different, actually would have required a pilot, as existing guidance systems were regarded as inadequate.
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