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• 470 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Nagoya, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | CPC]
• P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft began to arrive at Ie Shima, Japan. They would start operating against the Japanese home islands on the following day. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US Navy carrier aircraft attacked Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Kurt Blome was arrested by the US Counter Intelligence Corps in München (Munich), Germany. ww2dbase [Kurt Blome | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Single day maximum of catapult launches (22). ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | DS]
• USS Miami arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Miami | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
• Destroyer Yukikaze departed Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• In Japan, after a vicious 48-hour battle the Okinawan capital, Naha, was captured by the Americans. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | AC]
• Yukio Araki and the 72nd Shinbu Squadron arrived at Metabaru Airfield in Saga Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukio Araki | CPC]

• Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Taroa, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]

• Mexican 201st Expeditionary Squadron with P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft began operations from Clark Field in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Clark Field | CPC]

• Kamikaze departed Penang, Straits Settlements and rescued 320 survivors of sunken Haguro in the Strait of Malacca. She then set for Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | CPC]

• B-24 bombers of US 380th Bomb Group attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Matsuyama Airfield | CPC]
• 2 B-25 bombers of 71st Bombardment Squadron of USAAF 38th Bombardment Group dropped 12 500-pound parafrag bombs and propaganda leaflets on the Keishu sugar plant in Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan at 1015 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The first Firebrand TF.IV aircraft, equipped with Bristol Centaurus IX engine, took its first flight. ww2dbase [Firebrand | AC]

17 May 1945 Interactive Map