Over Japan... The USAAF struck the cities of Choshi, Hitachi, Fukui and Okazaki with 600 B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping some 4000 tons of bombs. It is largest employment of the bomber type yet.

In China... The American Far East Air Force bombs four Japanese air bases in the Shanghai area.

In Burma... Japanese units begin an all out effort to breakout of their encircled positions.

In the Greater Sunda Islands... On Borneo, Australian forces have occupied without opposition the oil center of Samboja, northeast of Balikpapan.

In Washington... Congress ratifies the Bretton Woods monetary agreement.

In Occupied Germany... The Potsdam Conference continues. Churchill, Truman and Stalin confer on politics and strategy, in a town near Berlin.