6 Jun 1945
- USS Wake Island returned to her front line position off Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 arrived. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | DS]
- Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 began joint submarine-seaplane exercises in Nanao Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Capitaine fired four torpedoes at a small Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
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