SUN 22 JUL 1945
Pacific
TF 93 (Rear Admiral John H. Brown, Jr.) consisting of light cruisers Richmond (CL-9) and Concord (CL-10) and five destroyers, conducts unopposed bombardment of installations at Suribachi, Paramushiro, Kurils.
DesRon 61, on anti-shipping sweep in vicinity of Sagami Bay, picks up on its radar screens a four-ship Japanese convoy about five miles west of Nojima Zaki and engages it (see 23 July).
Twenty-six USAAF B-29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Najin, Pusan and Masan, Korea.
Japanese auxiliary minesweeper No.7 Toshi Maru is wrecked off Sata-Misaki, Japan, 31°00'N, 130°40'E.
Mines sink Japanese merchant cargo ship Katori Maru off Niigata; unnamed merchant motor sailer, 1.5 kilometers off Cape Motoyama; and damage auxiliary submarinechaser Cha 20 off Kobe, Japan; and merchant cargo ships Kojo Maru, off Niigata; Choyo Maru, off Najin; and Daikoku Maru, Hagi harbor; and merchant tanker Yuyo Maru, 1.6 kilometers off Mushima light.
Japanese merchant ship Hokko Go is sunk by aircraft, 35°10'N, 129°30'E.
Japanese merchant cargo ship No.3 Manei Maru is sunk by USAAF mine laid by B-29 (20th Air Force) ten kilometers west of Funagawa, Honshu, 39°53'N, 139°52'E.
Japanese merchant fishing boat No.58 Nanshin Maru is damaged by aircraft, 35°20'N, 130°00'E.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Mines Again, Mostly
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