WED 27 JUN 1945
Pacific
Twenty-nine USAAF B-29s mine the waters off Hagi, Niigata, Kobe, and Osaka, Japan.
PB4Y-2s (VPB 118), flying from Okinawa, continue aerial mining of waters of Korean archipelago, sowing mines in fields off Chin-To and northwest of Roka-To.
Destroyer Caldwell (DD-605) is damaged by mine in Brunei Bay, Borneo, 05°07'N, 115°06'E.
Submarine Blueback (SS-326) sinks Japanese submarine chaser Ch 2 north of Lombok, Java Sea, 07°25'S, 116°00'E.
Japanese submarine I 165 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VPB 142), 450 miles east of Saipan, Marianas, 15°28'N, 153°39'E.
Japanese auxiliary minelayer Kyushu Maru is sunk by U.S. aircraft east of Otsu, Japan.
Mines sink Japanese merchant cargo ships Mifuku Maru outside Nanao harbor, 37°06'N, 137°02'E, and No.7 Kaishin Maru off Mutsure, Japan, and damage escort destroyer Sakito, 34°13'N, 126°36'E, army cargo ship Maoka Maru, .3 kilometers off Niigata light, and merchant cargo ships Yuzuki Maru off Moji, and Mifunesan Maru off Harima-Nada.
Japanese army cargo ship Hozu Maru is sunk by aircraft, near Rabaul, New Britain.
Japanese submarine chaser Ch 19 is damaged by aircraft, south of Korea; merchant cargo ship Keisei Maru is damaged by aircraft, near Mokpo, Korea.
Navy land-based aircraft damage Japanese cargo vessel Keijo Maru, 34°19'N, 126°27'E.
Japanese merchant cargo ship No.7 Nichiyu Maru is damaged by marine casualty, 36°53'N, 129°26'E.
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