Mine Clearance Operations

FRI 15 JUN 1945
Pacific
British TG 111.2 (Rear Admiral Eric J.P. Brind, RN), bombards Japanese installations, Truk Atoll.

Fifteen motor minesweepers (YMS), accompanied by the high-speed transport Cofer (APD-62) and landing craft equipped with light minesweeping gear, arrive off Balikpapan, Borneo, to begin mine clearance operations.

Thirty USAAF B-29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Fushiki, Fukuoka, and Karatsu, Japan.

Destroyer escort O'Flaherty (DE-340) is damaged in collision with escort carrier Block Island (CVE-106) off Okinawa, 26°00'N, 128°00'E.

Submarine Sea Dog (SS-401) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Koan Maru, 39°53'N, 139°40'E.

Japanese guardboats Gion Maru and Jinko Maru are sunk by U.S. aircraft, Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina.

Japanese freighter No.2 Tanshin Maru is sunk by marine casualty, near Malay peninsula.

USAAF B-24s (10th Air Force) attack Japanese convoy in Gulf of Siam, damaging destroyer Kamikaze and minesweeper W.4 and sinking merchant tanker Toho Maru off Samui Island 09°25'N, 99°54'E,

Japanese merchant cargo ship Heiryu Maru sinks after colliding with submerged wreck southwest of Shinshin Island Korea, 36°39'N, 126°07'E.

Japanese cargo vessel Junkawa Maru is sunk by mine, 04°41'S, 106°13'E.