27 May 1945




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- Operation Kikusui No. 8 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 60 Japanese Navy and 50 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft; together with manned torpedoes, these special attacks damaged 5 destroyers and 6 other ships in the area. ww2dbase [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
- USS Guitarro arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Guitarro | CPC]
- USS Missouri bombarded Japanese positions on Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
- USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]
- USS New Mexico ceased being the flagship of Admiral Raymond Spruance of US Fifth Fleet. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
- US 101st Airborne Division Master Sergeant Charles Dickey discovered Heinrich Himmler's emergency cash in Himmler's family barn in Bayern (Bavaria) in southern Germany. It consisted of currencies of 26 nations worth a total of US$4,000,000. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | Bayern | CPC]
- USS Cero arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Cero | CPC]
- I-13 departed Kure, Japan for Chinkai, Korea at 0000 hours, together with I-14. They came under attack in the Straits of Shimonoseki later in the day, but escaped unscathed. They arrived at Moji, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan later on the same day. ww2dbase [Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- I-14 departed Kure, Japan for Chinkai, Korea, at 0000 hours together with I-13. They came under attack in the Straits of Shimonoseki later in the day, but escaped unscathed. They arrived at Moji, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan later on the same day. ww2dbase [I-14 | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- USS Boarfish intercepted a two-masted junk in the Java Sea; the search party sent aboard found nothing suspicious and allowed the ship to leave. ww2dbase [Boarfish | Java Sea | CPC]
- Corporal Yukio Araki died as a special attack pilot. His Ki-51 aircraft might be one of the two aircraft which crashed into destroyer USS Braine off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukio Araki | Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
- US B-25 bombers and fighters based in the Philippine Islands attacked Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. ww2dbase [Koshun Airfield | Koshun, Takao | CPC]




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