United States Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River Established

SAT 16 JUN 1945
United States Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland is established.

Pacific
Off Okinawa, destroyer Twiggs (DD-591) is sunk by aerial torpedo, 26°08'N, 137°35'E, and escort carrier Steamer Bay (CVE-87) is damaged by aircraft operational casualty, 24°00'N, 128°00'E.

Submarine Piranha (SS-389) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Eiso Maru, 41°57'N, 140°56'E.

British submarine HMS Taciturn sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 105 and unnamed air warning picket hulk (ex-Dutch submarine K-XVIII) off Surabaya, Java, N.E.I.

Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Wakatake Maru is sunk by aircraft, Keelung harbor.

Japanese army cargo ship Taikyu Maru is sunk by mine west of the mouth of Kammon channel.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Takeshima Maru is sunk by aircraft, 34°35'N, 125°58'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Kinsho Maru is sunk, agent and location unspecified.

Japanese merchant cargo ship No.35 Banshu Maru is sunk by mine, 33°57'N, 130°43'E.

Japanese destroyer Natsuzuki is damaged 3.1 kilometers off Mutsure Island.