Bombs Away!

MON 6 AUG 1945
Pacific
USAAF B-29 "Enola Gay" (509th Composite Group) drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Honshu; USN Commander William S. Parsons is the weaponeer on this mission.

TG 95.3 planes, from escort carriers Lunga Point (CVE-94), Makin Island (CVE-93) and Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) (Vice Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf) strike enemy shipping in Tinghai Harbor, China.

Carrier Intrepid (CV-11)'s air group bombs Japanese installations on Wake Island as the ship is en route from Pearl Harbor to join TF 38 in the western Pacific.

TF 58 planes damage Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.37 and small minelayer/netlayer Kyosai east of Nojimazaki, 34°52'N, 139°58'E.

Submarine Bugara (SS-331) comes across British submarine HMS Sleuth and four Japanese junks. Bugara, in display of Anglo-American cooperation, assists the British boat by sinking two of the enemy craft by gunfire, 06°51'N, 101°44'E.

Submarine Bullhead (SS-332) is sunk, probably by Japanese Army aircraft (73d Chutai), off Bali, Java Sea, 08°20'S, 115°42'E.

USAAF B-25s and P-51s (Far East Air Force) attack Japanese shipping in Tsushima Strait, sinking merchant cargo ships No.7 Shintai Maru and Kowa Maru five miles east of Tsuno Jima, 34°26'N, 129°16'E.

USAAF mines sink Japanese merchant cargo ships No.2 Chokai Maru off Fushiki Light, 38°49'N, 137°04'E, Isojima Maru in south channel of Kammon Strait, 33°56'N, 130°56'E, and No.2 Kozan Maru at 33°53'N, 132°00'E.

Japanese auxiliary minelayer Kinjo Maru and auxiliary netlayer Kosei Maru, are damaged by aircraft, near Kujukuruhama.