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Japan was still being battered by ships and planes of the Pacific Fleet at last reports. Steel works and other targets burned and collapsed under the weight of more than 1,000 tons of shells.
scores criticism of China; discusses his retirement
King tells leaders and Royal family members he will neither return nor abdicate; Cabinet to hold emergency meeting; Regent refuses to accept Cabinet resignation; van Acker position seen strengthened, comment on situation
WASHINGTON, July 15--The Army shipped 2,045,829 long tons of food, chiefly wheat and flour, for feeding of civilians in liberated European areas during 1944 and the first five months of 1945.
Nimitz repts Muroran steel works nearly wiped out by battleship bombardment while Kushiro was left burning by carrier raids
1945Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.[†]
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. The Manhattan Project employed nearly 130,000 people at its peak and cost nearly US$2 billion.
1945World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.[†]
A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. Heavy cruisers were generally larger, more heavily armed and more heavily armoured than light cruisers while being smaller, faster, and more lightly armed and armoured than battlecruisers and battleships. Heavy cruisers were not considered capital ships, unlike battlecruisers, battleships, and fleet carriers. Heavy cruisers were assigned a variety of roles ranging from commerce raiding to serving as 'cruiser-killers,' i.e. hunting and destroying similarly sized ships.