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• Japanese troops landed on northern Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Jack Knight was born. ww2dbase [Jack Knight | CPC]
• John Kennedy was born. ww2dbase [John Kennedy | CPC]

• The British Cabinet seceded that a large scale Allied intervention in Russia was now an inevitable necessity and that all possible pressure should be brought to bear on US President Wilson to persuade him to agree to it. ww2dbase [AC]

• Prince Hiroyasu's second child, Princess Yasuko, married Marquis Nagatake Asano. ww2dbase [Hiroyasu | CPC]

• S-25 was launched at the Bethlehem shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, sponsored by Mrs. Vera Hobart Schlabach, wife of naval officer Ross Schlabach. ww2dbase [Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard | S-25/Jastrzab | Quincy, Massachusetts | CPC]

29 May 1922 Interactive Map

• Joseph Stilwell completed the Advanced Officer's Course, Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Columbus, Georgia | CPC]

29 May 1924 Interactive Map

• Emperor Showa disembarked Nachi. ww2dbase [Nachi | CPC]

• Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of major. ww2dbase [Harry Dimoline | CPC]

• The French luxury liner Normandie departed Le Havre, France on her maiden voyage, reaching New York, United States in four days, three hours and thirteen minutes, winning the Blue Riband from the Italian liner Rex. ww2dbase [Le Havre, Haute-Normandie | AC]

• The German pocket battleship Deutschland was bombed by Spanish Republican aircraft off the Spanish coast. Thirty-one German sailors were killed and 101 were injured. ww2dbase [Deutschland | AC]

• Hurricane prototype fighter K5083 was revealed to the public during the Empire Air Day exhibitions at Felixstowe and Martlesham in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Hurricane | England | CPC]

• USS Astoria discontinued the search for the missing adventurer Richard Halliburton. ww2dbase [Astoria (New Orleans-class) | CPC]

• Allies evacuated 33,558 men from the harbor at Dunkirk, France and 13,752 from the nearby beaches. German aircraft interfered, attacking ships in the sea as well as men waiting on the docks. Destroyer HMS Grenade was hit by three bombs, one of which went down her funnel, in Dunkirk harbor and sank, killing 19. Destroyer HMS Jaguar was badly damaged by a bomb, killing 13 and wounding 19. Minesweeper HMS Waverley, with 600 troops already aboard, was sunk by a bomb, killing 350. Elsewhere in France, German troops captured Lille, Ostend, and Ypres. Also on the same day, French auxiliary cruiser Ville d'Oran took on 200 tons of gold from the French reserve for shipment to Casablanca, French Morocco. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | TH]
• German torpedo boat S-30 sank British destroyer HMS Wakeful 13 miles north of Nieuwpoort, Belgium at 0040 hours, killing 97 crew and 640 solders rescued from Dunkirk, France. 25 crew and 1 soldier were rescued by minesweepers HMS Gossamer and HMS Lydd, destroyer HMS Grafton, and armed trawler HMS Comfort. Later in the day, German submarine U-62 torpedoed HMS Grafton, killing 4; destroyer HMS Ivanhoe scuttled HMS Grafton after rescuing the survivors. Nearby, HMS Comfort was mistaken for another German torpedo boat and was rammed by HMS Lydd, killing 4 crew and 2 soldiers. ww2dbase [TH]
• German submarine U-37 sank French steamer Marie José and British oil tanker Telena off Cape Finisterre, Spain. 18 were killed and 18 survivors were later rescued by Spanish fishing boats. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Werner Mölders was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the first fighter pilot to receive this award. ww2dbase [Werner Mölders | CPC]
• No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Manston, England, United Kingdom claimed no less than thirty-eight enemy aircraft destroyed in a single day. The Luftwaffe fighter pilots having mistaken No. 264 Squadron's two-seat Defiant fighters for Hurricane fighters and had dived on the supposedly defenceless tails of the British fighters only to be greeted by a withering concentration of fire. By the end of the month No. 264 Squadron's Defiant fighters would have claimed some sixty-five kills, but the German pilots had learned from their mistakes and adopted new tactics to deal with the Defiant fighters. ww2dbase [P.82 Defiant | AC]
• Friedrich Christiansen became the commanding officer of the German military in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Friedrich Christiansen | CPC]

• The 393-ton former Royal Mail Steam Packet Company paddle steamer Gracie Fields, serving in the capacity of a minesweeper since 1939, was hit by a bomb on her second trip to Dunkerque, France. Eight of her crew died in the attack. The ship remained afloat and an effort to tow her back to Britain would be mounted. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | Dunkerque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais | HM]

• Prinz Eugen arrived at Brest, France. ww2dbase [Prinz Eugen | CPC]
• A British force of cruiser and destroyers embarked 3,486 men at Heraklion, Crete and departed for Egypt at 0245 hours. At 0400 hours, HMS Imperial's steering failed; she transferred her crew and passengers, and then was scuttled by HMS Hotspur. After dawn, HMS Hereward was bombed by Italian aircraft, 76 were killed and 89 survivors were captured. Cruisers HMS Orion and HMS Dido were also attacked, killing 105 crew and 260 passengers on the former and 27 crew and 100 passengers on the latter. The force would finally arrive at Alexandria, Egypt at 2000 hours. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | CPC]
• German submarine U-557 sank British ship Empire Storm in the North Atlantic at 2043 hours; 3 were killed, 40 survived and were rescued by Norwegian ship Marita. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-38 sank British ship Tabaristan 250 miles off Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 2350 hours; 21 were killed, 39 survived and were rescued by British armed trawlers HMS Bengali and HMS Turcoman. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The German Navy began to execute its plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | CPC]
• HMS Eagle began patrolling the South Atlantic for German shipping. ww2dbase [Eagle | CPC]

• The 407-ton German weather-reporting trawler August Wriedt was captured by the destroyer HMS Bedouin (Commander J. A. McCoy RN) in the North Sea heading for Greenland. She was later taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Maria. ww2dbase [North Sea | AC]

• Task Group 3, comprised of aircraft carrier USS Ranger, heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, and destroyers USS McDougal and Eberle, sailed from Bermuda on a 4,355-mile Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic. ww2dbase [United States Neutrality Patrol | Tuscaloosa | Ranger | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• 13 British and Polish prisoners of war of Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, Germany attempted to escape via a tunnel, but the attempt was a failure. ww2dbase [Colditz Castle | Colditz, Sachsen | CPC]
• U-132 was commissioned into service with Kapitänleutnant Ernst Vogelsang in command, and was assigned to the 3rd Submarine Flotilla. ww2dbase [U-132 | CPC]

• Isaac Sweers was commissioned into service with Commander Jacques Houtsmuller in command. ww2dbase [Isaac Sweers | CPC]

• US Navy extended its boundaries of Neutrality Patrol to North and South Atlantic. On the same day, a joint US Army-US Navy plan was drafted to occupy the Portuguese Azores islands with 14,000 Marines and 14,000 troops; the proposed commanding officer was US Marine Corps Major General Holland M. Smith. ww2dbase [United States Neutrality Patrol | CPC]

29 May 1941 Interactive Map

• The Main Body of the Japanese Midway invasion fleet set sail; it was consisted of Battleship Division 1 (Yamato, Nagato, Mutsu), light carrier Hosho, seaplane/submarine tenders Chiyoda and Nisshin, light cruiser Sendai of Destroyer Squadron 3, nine destroyers, and Supply Group No. 1; the Main Body remained 600 miles behind the Carrier Striking Force. Meanwhile, the transport fleet set sail from Saipan in the Mariana Islands; it was consisted of 15 transports. ww2dbase [Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | CPC]
• The Commonwealth CA-12 Boomerang fighter made its maiden flight, only fourteen weeks after its design had been approved and an initial order for 105 machines placed. ww2dbase [Boomerang | AC]
• A lifeboat containing survivors of Dutch ship Polyphemus, which was sunk by German submarine U-578 on 27 May, was stopped by U-566; after some questioning, the German crew provided the survivors some water and pointed them toward the east coast of the United States. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• German submarine U-156 sank British ship Norman Prince 60 miles west of Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles islands at 0103 hours; 16 were killed, 32 survived. At 0217 hours, U-107 sank British ship Western Head 10 miles south of Rio Seco, Cuba; 24 were killed, 6 survived. Finally, U-50 sank British ship Allister 54 miles south of Grand Cayman island at 2337 hours; 15 were killed, 8 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• Japanese submarine I-21 launched her floatplane for a reconnaissance mission over Sydney, Australia. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British destroyers HMS Hero, HMS Eridge, and HMS Hurworth forced German submarine U-568 to surface and be scuttled 40 miles northeast of Tobruk, Libya with a depth charging that lasted 16 hours; all 47 aboard survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• British submarine HMS Turbulent fired four torpedoes at an Italian convoy 135 miles northwest of Benghazi, Libya at 0700 hours; one torpedo struck and sank Capo Arma, while another circled back over the submarine and then proceed to strike and sink destroyer Emmanuele Pessagno. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Swordfish sank Japanese transport Tatsufuku Maru, already damaged by USS Seal on the previous day, between Dutch Borneo and the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Swordfish | CPC]
• Allied convoy QP-12 arrived at Reykjavík, Iceland. To the east, PQ-16 sailed in the opposite direction. As PQ-16 neared Murmansk, Russia, they were joined by Soviet destroyers Grozny, Sokrushitelny, and Kuibyshev at 1150 hours and then 6 British destroyers several hours later. At 2200 hours, the convoy broke into two groups, one sailing for Murmansk and another sailing for Arkhangelsk further east. At 2330 hours, the Murmansk group came under attack by 18 German aircraft and the Arkhangelsk group by 15 German aircraft; no ships were sunk, and several aircraft on both sides were shot down, including one piloted by Double Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Safonov, killing him. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• A Free French Bren Carrier patrol led by Captain Lamaze and accompanied, in person, by Colonel Mitakvari of the Foreign Legion, was surprised while patrolling in the open desert by a section of Italian M13 tanks which managed to get between the patrol and its perimeter defences. They were only rescued by the timely intervention of Captain Messmer (9th company 3/13th battalion) who would later become the Minister of Defence in the Charles de Gaulle regime in the 1960s. ww2dbase [AC]

• Soviet submarine A-3 sank Romanian vessel Sulina in the Black Sea. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Soviet submarine ShCh-214 sank Turkish vessel Hudarvendigar in the Black Sea. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Long range Catalina flying boats of No. 11 and No. 20 squadrons RAAF made their first raid against the Solomon Islands base at Tulagi, which had already been attacked by US carrier aircraft earlier in the month. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Tulagi | AC]

• 77 British aircraft (31 Wellington, 20 Halifax, 14 Lancaster, 9 Stirling, 3 Hampden) attacked the Gnome et Rhône aircraft engine factory at Gennevilliers northwest of Paris, France, causing little damage; 34 French civilians were killed, 167 were injured; 5 bombers were lost in this mission. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | Gennevilliers, Île-de-France | CPC]

• USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Finback | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Yorktown was refloated and moved out of Dry Dock No. 1 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. She received fuel and a new air complement from nearby Naval Air Station Kaneohe. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Yorktown (Yorktown-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Honolulu departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for Dutch Harbor, Alaska. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Yamato departed Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan at 0600 hours for Operation MI. ww2dbase [Yamato | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]
• Light carrier Hosho departed Hashirajima, Japan for the Midway invasion. ww2dbase [Hosho | Hashirajima, Yamaguchi | CPC]
• Yugure departed Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan at 0600 hours. ww2dbase [Yugure | Tokuyama, Yamaguchi | CPC]

• An Italian supply convoy got through the British minefield and reached the Axis forces in the "Cauldron" south of Tobruk, Libya, which British General Neil Ritchie still failed to realize was the main assault force. To the north near the coast, the Storch observation aircraft which General Ludwig Crüwell was aboard was shot down, leading to his capture. ww2dbase [Battle of Gazala | CPC]

• En route to the Aleutian Islands, USS S-28 received new orders due to a potential Japanese attack at Midway, thus starting her first war patrol. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]
• USS Permit fired two torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Makassar Strait; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Permit | Makassar Strait | CPC]

• Soviet resistance in the Izium, Ukraine ceased. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Kharkov | Izium, Kharkov | TH, CPC]

• German bombers attacked Grimsby, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Grimsby, England | CPC]

29 May 1942 Interactive Map

• RAF bombers attacked Wuppertal, Germany with 1,900 tons of explosives. The Ruhr region city housed an I. G. Farben chemical plant and a G. & J. Jaeger ball-bearing factory. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• The issue of the American magazine The Saturday Evening Post published on this date featured with Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" illustration. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Yasuyo Yamasaki led a final counterattack on Attu, US Territory of Alaska; when all was nearly lost, he committed ritual suicide to avoid capture. ww2dbase [Aleutian Islands Campaign | Yasuyo Yamasaki | Attu | CPC]

• Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Irako | Truk | CPC]

• Japanese and Chinese troops clashed in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Exi | CPC]

• Berthe Albrecht was captured by German agents in Mâcon, France. ww2dbase [The French Resistance | Berthe Albrecht | Mâcon, Bourgogne | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the German submarine facilities at Saint Nazaire, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Saint Nazaire | DS]

• USS Scorpion departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Scorpion | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down two British fighters over Chittagong, India (now Bangladesh), increasing his score to 44. ww2dbase [Satoru Anabuki | Chittagong | CPC]

• 417th Bombardment Squadron of 25th Bombardment Group of US Army Air Forces, operating B-18 Bolo bombers, was assigned to Losey Field in Puerto Rico. ww2dbase [Losey Field | Juana Díaz | CPC]

• USS Wahoo arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Wahoo | Vallejo, California | CPC]

29 May 1943 Interactive Map

• Taking advantage of their range, US bombers began hitting Marienburg and Posen in eastern Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• The escort carrier USS Block Island was torpedoed by a German U-boat while on anti-submarine patrol near the Azores. This was the first and only US Navy Aircraft Carrier to be lost in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [AC]
• The Anglo-Indian attack on Ninthoukgong, India was halted after capturing the northern half of the town. ww2dbase [Battle of Imphal-Kohima | CPC]

• Destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Hopewell, USS O'Bannon, and USS Taylor conducted a shore bombardment of the plantation area near Madina, New Ireland that lasted 8 hours with minimal return fire. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Madina, New Ireland | DS]

• Togo departed the Gulf of Finland. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | Gulf of Finland | CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group arrived at Casablanca, French Morocco. ww2dbase [Bogue | Casablanca | DS]

• U-23 sank Soviet motor tug Smelyj with one of two torpedoes fired just off the Georgian coast at 1256 hours, killing eleven. Soviet ships responded with a two-hour depth charge attack, but U-23 was able to escape. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Air Group 28 arrived on board. Part of CASU-48, CASU-49, arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for the Central Pacific. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii en route Kwajalein. ww2dbase [Shaw | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• US 1st Armored Division engaged German defensive positions of the Caesar C Line south of Rome, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Anzio | CPC]

• Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Sasebo, Japan for refitting. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Yuzuki | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru in Kawauchi Bay, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Nachi | Kawauchi Bay, Aomori | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides torpedoed Japanese transports Hōraisan Maru and Shōken Maru 40 miles west of Anatahan, Mariana Islands. Both ships exploded and burned with tremendously bright flames and lit up the night as if it were day. ww2dbase [Silversides | Anatahan | DS]

• USS Whale released destroyer USS Cassin from escort duty off Majuro, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]
• USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport between Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 8 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Permit | CPC]

• William Sample became the commanding officer of USS Hornet, relieving Miles Browning. ww2dbase [Miles Browning | Hornet (Essex-class) | CPC]
• While shifting berths under the control of a Coast Guard harbor pilot, destroyer escort USS Tabberer rammed a floating drydock in Galveston Bay, Texas, United States. ww2dbase [Henry Plage | Tabberer | Galveston Bay, Texas | DS]
• Submarine USS Saury completed her engine overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. Her original Hoover, Owens, Rentschler Co. diesel engines were replaced with Model 278A Winton engines. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Saury | Vallejo, California | DS]

29 May 1944 Interactive Map

• USS Cod arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands for refitting, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• Jisaburo Ozawa was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Jisaburo Ozawa | CPC]
• US 10th Army captured Shuri Castle at Okinawa, Japan. Off the coast, Japanese special attack aircraft damaged 2 destroyers. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
• Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the third time. ww2dbase [Vasily Chuikov | CPC]
• Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front was renamed Northern Group of Military Forces, or SGV. Konstantin Rokossovsky remained the commanding officer of the group. ww2dbase [Konstantin Rokossovsky | CPC]

• USS Bluegill landed US and Australian personnel on Pratas of the Pratas Islands (Chinese: Dongsha Islands) in the South China Sea and destroyed the Japanese radio tower, weather station, fuel, ammunition dump, and several buildings. The operation was unopposed as the Japanese had already abandoned the island. ww2dbase [Bluegill | Pratas, Pratas Islands | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Jakarta, Java. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Jakarta, Java | CPC]

• The staff of Hadamar Euthanasia Center Aktion in western Germany murdered its final victim, a mentally handicapped boy. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Hadamar Euthanasia Center | Hadamar, Hessen-Nassau | CPC]

• USS Flying Fish departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• Submarines USS Flying Fish, Bowfin, and Tinosa, the “Bob’s Bobcats” element of “Hydeman’s Hellcats,” departed Guam bound for the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | Tinosa | Bowfin | Apra Harbor | DS]

• Ira Hayes arrived at Hilo, Hawai'i island, US Territory of Hawai'i by aircraft. ww2dbase [Ira Hayes | Hilo, Hawai’i | CPC]

• American B-25 bombers from Okinawa conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan, while 454 B-29 bombers (escorted by 101 P-51 fighters) firebombed Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
• Japanese pilto Second Lieutenant Kiyoharu Kawada (Roh Yong-U) rammed his Ki-45 Toryu heavy fighter into an attacking US B-29 Superfortress bomber (serial 42-24894) over Oi River, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, destroying the bomber but also sacrificing himself. ww2dbase [Yong-U Roh | Shizuoka | CPC]
• USS Sterlet attacked a Japanese convoy east of the southern tip of Karafuto, Japan (now Sakhalin, Russia), sinking a freighter and damaging another, hitting them with four of six torpedoes. As the escort vessels counterattacked, she fired three salvos of four, three, and then four torpedoes at them, all of which missed, but she was able to escape from the counterattack. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Hokkaido | CPC]

• I-14 departed Chinkai Naval Station in Chinkai (now Jinhae), Korea. ww2dbase [I-14 | Chinkai, Gyeongsangnam | CPC]

• USS Segundo encountered several vessels in the East China Sea; she seven two-masted schooners her crew identified as Japanese with the deck gun. ww2dbase [Segundo | East China Sea | CPC]
• USS Boarfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea between Sumatra and Java with four torpedoes and observed at least one explosion against an oiler; she was severely damaged in the subsequent depth charge counterattack, but she would be able to set sail for home. ww2dbase [Boarfish | Java Sea | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Leyte Gulf, Leyte, Philippines as an escort for a convoy bound for Morotai, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Saufley | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]

• The BI-7 rocket-powered prototype aircraft underwent a unpowered glider test at Khimki near Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [BI | Khimki, Moscow | CPC]
• Vasily Kuznetsov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Vasily Kuznetsov | CPC]

• 14 of the 25 captured US Army and US Navy airmen imprisoned at the Taihoku Prison in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan were sentenced to death by firing squad; the execution was to be carried out on 19 Jun 1945 ww2dbase [Taihoku Prison | Taihoku | CPC]
• 100 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Taiwan. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Lexington (Essex-class) departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Lexington (Essex-class) | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

29 May 1945 Interactive Map

• Martin Gottfried Weiss, former Majdanek Concentration Camp commandant, was executed by hanging at the Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Majdanek Concentration Camp | Martin Gottfried Weiss | Landsberg am Lech | CPC]

29 May 1946 Interactive Map

• Jan Smuts suffered a coronary thrombosis. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | CPC]

29 May 1950 Interactive Map

• Captain Frederick Stelter, Jr. was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]

• Kliment Voroshilov was made a Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]

• Submarine Gar was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]

• USS Caiman completed overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Caiman | Vallejo, California | CPC]

• Ba Maw passed away in Yangon, Burma. ww2dbase [Ba Maw | Yangon | CPC]

• Haydon Boatner passed away. ww2dbase [Haydon Boatner | CPC]

• Gordon Hirabayashi was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ww2dbase [Gordon Hirabayashi | Washington | CPC]