Atomic Age À-Go-Go

MON 16 JUL 1945
United States
First atomic bomb test is held at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Pacific
TF 37, the British fast carrier task force (Vice Admiral Henry B. Rawlings, RN), comprising one battleship, four aircraft carriers, eight light cruisers and 18 destroyers, joins Third Fleet. The British force will operate as part of the U.S. Third Fleet until hostilities end.

Aircraft (VC 13) from escort carrier Anzio (CVE-57) teams with destroyer escort Lawrence C. Taylor (DE-415) to sink Japanese submarine I 13, 540 miles east of Yokohama, Japan, 34°28'N, 150°55'E.

Submarine Baya (SS-318) sinks Ambon-bound Japanese torpedo boat Kari in Java Sea, 05°48'S, 115°53'E.

Submarine Blenny (SS-324) sinks Japanese gunboat Nankai west of Surabaya, Java, N.E.I., 05°26'S, 110°33'E.

Mines sink Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Byoritsu Maru at entrance to Chongjin Bay; merchant cargo ship Nanjin Maru off Wakamatsu, merchant cargo ships Nissho Maru off Mutsure, and Taikosan Maru off Motoyama-misaki; and merchant cargo vessel Rijo Maru off Ube; and irreparably damage submarine depot ship Nachi Maru north of Kyushu, off Mutsure Jima, 33°59'N, 130°52'E.

Japanese merchant tanker No.6 Toyu Maru is damaged by aircraft, Kudamatsu.