"unnamed Japanese merchant fishing boat"

SUN 3 JUN 1945
Pacific
Naval task group (Rear Admiral Lawrence F. Reifsnider) lands Marines on Iheya Jima, Ryukyus.

Off Okinawa, kamikazes damage cargo ship Allegan (AK-225), 26°00'N, 128°00'E, and large infantry landing craft LCI(L) 90.

Submarine Blueback (SS-326) sinks unnamed Japanese merchant fishing boat, 05°39'S, 106°47'E.

Submarine Segundo (SS-398) sinks Japanese merchantman No.94 Anto Maru off Jinsen, Korea, 36°41'N, 125°23'E.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Bomber Command) sink Japanese naval vessel No.15 Hakutetsu Maru in Inland Sea, army cargo ship Taiei Maru, 3.7 kilometers off Motoyama light, 38°56'N, 137°05'N, merchant cargo ships Osara Maru off Motoyama Bay, Konei Maru outside Karatsu harbor, 33°33'N, 129°58'E, and Momo Maru at 34°35'N, 134°15'E, and damage minelayer Tokiwa two kilometers off Bakuchizaki, and merchant cargo ship Erimo Maru off Hime Jima light, 33°47'N, 131°14'E.

Japanese ship No.6 Tankai Maru is sunk by aircraft, Hitakata, Ibaraki prefecture.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Anri Maru is damaged by aircraft, 34°57'N, 129°13'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Anjo Maru is damaged by aircraft off Pusan, Korea.

Destroyer Porter (DD-800), operating with TF 92, is damaged in collision with U.S. Army cable ship Silverado, the latter being convoyed by escort vessel PCE-893, off Kuluk Bay, Adak, Alaska, in "extremely poor" visibility conditions.

"sunk, cause unspecified"

SAT 2 JUN 1945
Pacific
TF 38 (Vice Admiral John S. McCain) bombs airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan; attack is repeated on 3 June.

Submarine Tench (SS-417) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Mikamasan Maru southeast of Shiriyazaki, 41°22'N, 141°28'E.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Bomber Command) damage Japanese cargo ships Nissho Maru two kilometers north of Tateishisaki and 3 Yubari Maru west of the mouth of Kammon Strait, Kashima Maru at 33°58'N, 130°42'E, Katsura Maru between Yoshi Jima and Sanakai Jima, and No.1 Toyo Maru at entrance of Shimonoseki Strait, 33°48'N, 130°42'E.

Japanese cargo vessel Kojin Maru is sunk, cause unspecified, near Rabaul.

Army coastal cargo vessel FS 34 reports to District Coast Guard Officer, Ketchikan, Alaska, for temporary duty. FS 34 will operate out of Dutch Harbor under the Coast Guard for a four-month period, transporting construction materials, fuel, supplies and workers to expedite the building of direction finder stations on the islands of St. Paul, Unimak, and St. George.

Junior Anti-S-E-X League

Will there always be an England?

Ross McGuinness / Yahoo News:
Coronavirus: Sex during lockdown with someone outside your household is illegal from today  —  Having sex in your own home with someone from a different household is illegal from today, after the government altered its coronavirus legislation.  —  At 11.30am on Monday …
Alex Parker / Redstate:   To Fight COVID-19, UK Bans Multi-Household Trysts
Lila Randall / Mirror.co.uk:   Sex in your house with a person from another household illegal from today
Lucy Middleton / Metro.co.uk:   The fuzz can't force you to stop having sex under new coronavirus rules
Victoria Friedman / Breitbart:   Having Sex With Someone You Don't Already Live With Now Illegal In Britain Under Coronavirus Laws

Maybe not.

Establishment & Disestablishment; Tiptoe Sinks Tobi

JUNE

FRI 1 JUN 1945
Pacific
Naval Air Facility, Peleliu Island Palau Islands, is established.

Naval Air Base, Tarawa, is disestablished.

USAAF B-29s (458 strong) bomb Osaka; in the course of the raid on that Japanese port city, the B-29s damage army cargo ships Yamazono Maru, Shinwao Maru, and army tankers Shunsho Maru and Eijun Maru, and merchant cargo ships No.2 Kimagayo Maru, Daito Maru, Hokuju Maru, Denshin Maru, Biyo Maru, Tonegawa Maru, and merchant tankers Ohyama Maru and Encho Maru.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Bomber Command) sink Japanese army cargo ship Seishu Maru off Shodo Jima, and merchant cargo ships Abukamagawa Maru 34°34'N, 134°14'E, and No.7 Kenkon Maru and Meitei Maru off Shimonoseki, 34°58'N, 130°56'E, merchant tanker Yoko Maru, 34°30'N, 135°15'E, merchant cargo ship Myosei Maru in Shimonoseki Strait, 33°58'N, 131°03'E; and damage merchant cargo ship Kishun Maru north by east of Mojizaki light, Goko Maru northwest of Wakamatsu, 33°58'N, 130°41'E, Unten Maru west of Seto, Inland Sea, and Shinano Maru outside Fushiki harbor, and cargo vessel Shinju Maru 35°42'N, 136°04'E, and No.1 ToyoMaru at entrance of Shimonoseki Strait, 33°57'N, 130°40'E.

Submarine chaser PC-1599 is damaged by grounding off Okinawa, 26°25'N, 127°43'E.

British submarine HMS Tiptoe sinks Japanese cargo ship Tobi Maru off Matasiri Island 04°40'S, 115°32'E.

Europe
Naval Advanced Base, Bremerhaven, Germany, is established.

"Looting In Hollywood" UPDATED

Help yourself at the Rite-Aid at Gower Gulch.

HOLD IT!! POLICE ARE ON SCENE.

Total Destruction

Hey, if we all pull together & try very, very hard, maybe we can make these United Snakes a smoking pile of rubble by the Fourth of July. #HappyBirthdayAmerica

— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) June 2, 2020

BURN. IT. DOWN!!

W/ him in it!

And kill all the fucking police too. I have absolutely had it w/ this gawddam bullshit.

Nihilism today, nihilism tomorrow, nihilism forever!!

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Bonus alternate image. (That fucking star is evil, innit?)

Borracho

Mines

THU 31 MAY 1945
Pacific
Four PBYs (three from FAW 1 and one from NAS Kodiak) dispatched to Fairbanks, via Anchorage, by Commander, Kodiak Sector, Alaskan Sea Frontier, return to Kodiak, their mission of providing assistance in evacuating citizenry threatened by rising Yukon River floodwaters having been completed.

Soviet merchantman Uzbekistan and U.S. freighter American Star are damaged in collision off Dutch Harbor, Alaska; big harbor tug YTB-191 provides assistance.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Bomber Command) sink Japanese cargo ship Man Maru off Hesaki light, and damage gunboat Kazan Maru off Genka Jima Light, 33°40'N, 129°57'E, army cargo ships No.2 Yoro Maru southeast of Hesaki and Peking Maru off Onna Jima, and merchant cargo ship Jindai Maru northwest of Mutsure Jima. USAAF B-29-laid mine damages transport Tensho Maru at 34°35'N, 135°15'E, but Tensho Maru sinks after being towed into Osaka harbor.

Curfew Time!

9-1-1 is a joke. There are not enough police ossifers to contain or control the people when the people are angered & aroused. My advice is to help yourselves to anything you need or want. As soon as the sun's down this reporter will be wandering down the street & helping himself to more milk crates for the "benchwork" of his model railroad.*

Premature Board-Up.

Welcome indeed.

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*Or not. Best laid plans & all, & this is really more an impulse than a plan. ('Though I've been contemplating it for a while, & there'll probably never be a better opportunity, as long as the 'hood remains calm.)

Curently Enjoying ...

... MelroseMAC having an involuntary Everything Must Go Sale, live on KNBC4. Also live on the telly, people grabbing armloads of crummy overpriced clothes from trendy stores.

When does the supermarket looting start?

#FreeFoodForLA

Let me know when the looting starts at the 3rd & Vermont Ralphs. I'm hungry & they owe me. #FreeFoodForLA

— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) May 31, 2020

Curfew In Effect

I'd go out looting but there's really nothing I can carry easily that I want, except guns, which, alas, are not easily looted. Oh, and food, which I need. Went to Ralphs well before the curfew was imposed by Mayor Shithead & it was closed. Called the next closest Ralphs & it was closed too. How did Kroger know? The Vons across the street was open, but much too crowded. Looks like everything is falling apart.

Croaker Sinks Shuttle Boats

WED 30 MAY 1945
Pacific
Planes (VC 82) from escort carrier Anzio (CVE-57) sink Japanese submarine I 361, 400 miles southeast of Okinawa, 22°22'N, 134°09'E.

Submarine Blenny (SS-324) sinks Japanese cargo ship Hokoku Maru 40 miles southwest of Bandjermasin, 04°09'S, 114°16'E.

Submarine Croaker (SS-246), despite proximity of escorting auxiliary submarine chaser Kenkai Maru, sinks No.154 Shuttle Boat and No.146 Shuttle Boat at 04°50'S, 113°10'E.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Bomber Command) sink Japanese transport Hakuun Maru off Hakata, Japan, 33°36'N, 130°25'E, and merchant cargo ships Fujitama Maru off Wadanomisaki light, 34°30'N, 135°11'E, Kasumi Maru .8 kilometers off Mijizaki, and No.14 Takasago Maru northwest of Tadotsu, 35°15'N, 133°44'E, and damage army cargo ships Hyuga Maru 3.6 kilometers south-southeast of Genka Jima and Shinno Maru at mouth of Tsuruga Bay.

Decoration Day 2020

I Piss On Your Grave!

Dying for an old white man's country is a sucker's game.

Groundings

TUE 29 MAY 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, kamikazes crash destroyer Shubrick (DD-639), 26°38'N, 127°05'E, and high speed transport Tatum (APD-81), 26°40'N, 127°50'E; groundings account for damage to motor minesweeper YMS-81, 26°16'N, 127°52'E, and tank landing ship LST-844, 26°17'N, 127°51'E.

Mine laid by USAAF B-29 (20th Air Force) sinks Japanese cargo vessel Umatsu Maru off Mutsure Jima, 34°00'N, 130°50'E, and damage army cargo ship No.6 Unyo Maru 3.6 miles off Hesaki light, 31°41'N, 129°45'E, and merchant cargo ship No.5 Nissen Maru off Mutsure Jima.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Etsunan Maru is sunk by RAF-laid mine at 10°30'N, 99°24'E; later that day, submarine Hawkbill (SS-366) torpedoes Kamiyama Maru as she picks up Etsunan Maru survivors, and forces the rescuing ship to take refuge at Cape Khokwang.

Submarine Sterlet (SS-392), despite proximity of escorting Coast Defense Ship No.65, sinks Japanese army cargo ships Kuretake Maru and Tenryo Maru, 46°46'N, 144°16'E.

Blueback & Lamprey In Surface Gunnery Action

MON 28 MAY 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, kamikazes sink destroyer Drexler (DD-741), 27°06'N, 127°38'E, and damage attack transport Sandoval (APA-194), 26°15'N, 127°51'E, and large support landing craft LCS(L)-119. A suicider crashes and damages U.S. freighter Mary A. Livermore in Buckner Bay, 26°12'N, 127°46'E; the 27 Armed Guards and 75 Construction Battalion sailors on board contribute men to firefighting efforts (four Armed Guard sailors, as well as seven merchant seamen, die in the explosion and fires). Another kamikaze crashes and damages U.S. freighter Brown Victory off Ie Shima; two of the 27 Armed Guards are killed instantly, and 18 injured (one merchant sailor and an Armed Guard sailor die of their wounds later). Still another suicider crashes U.S. freighter Josiah Snelling off Okinawa; Armed Guard gunfire manages to deflect the Japanese plane from its suicidal course toward the amidships deckhouse and into a less vulnerable part, saving the ship from worse damage. There are no fatalities on board.

Submarines Blueback (SS-326) and Lamprey (SS-372) battle Japanese submarine chaser Ch.1 in a surface gunnery action off Japara, N.E.I., 06°28'S, 110°37'E, and damage the enemy escort vessel.

Submarine Ray (SS-271) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Biko Maru northwest of Changshan, 38°21'N, 123°58'E.

Commander, Kodiak Sector, Alaskan Sea Frontier, dispatches four PBYs (three from FAW 1 and one from NAS Kodiak) to Fairbanks, via Anchorage, Alaska, to provide assistance in evacuating citizens threatened by rising Yukon River floodwaters (see 31 May).

USAAF B-29-laid mines sink Japanese transport Akitsu Maru south of Kure, and damage Coast Defense Vessel No.29 off Kyushu, 33°07'N, 129°44'E, merchant cargo ships Mishimasan Maru three kilometers off Tateishikzaki and Annette Fritzen Go at 33°53'N, 130°05'E; and fishing boat No.3 Genei Maru outside Sasebo Bay.

Today In Free Speech

It was a gift from you, you obese orange obscenity. The American blood is on your tiny hands. Stop lying, too.

— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) May 28, 2020

Is It Blursday Yet?

Previously noted: "Don't believe this '#AloneTogether' bullshit. Every one of us is alone."