July 1, 1945 - Sunday - 80 years ago today

Status - John Skinner - USS St. Croix

The St. Croix offloaded troops at Manila and began its return to New Guinea to continue its transportation to the Philippines..

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Fighting continues on Okinawa, in the Philippines and in New Guinea.  Many ships continue to be damaged or sunk by kamikaze aircraft near Okinawa.  Japanese resistance on Okinawa ended on June 21st.

General Eisenhower was celebrated at a ticker-tape parade in New York on June 19th. 

Organization of the new United Nations continued in San Francisco.

Plans for Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan, were approved by President Truman on the 29th.  The invasion was slated to start in November, and required 5 million troops.

 More Information:

• Official Navy Chronology, pp. 697-707.
• The Liberation of the Philippines, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 228-302. 
  
• Victory in the Pacific, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 272-312.
• USS_Saint_Croix
• Events of June, 1945

 

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July 1, 1865 - Saturday - 160 years ago today

Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade

The 4th Army Corps was ordered to New Orleans on the 16th. There was unrest in all areas of the south at this time as the post-slavery society sorted out, and Union troops were called upon to help in implementing Reconstruction policies.

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Union General Gordon Granger lands in Galveston, Texas and announces the liberation of the slaves to the people of Texas, an event now celebrated each year on June 19th as Juneteenth. 

On June 29th, the accused conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln were convicted and on the 30th, four of them were sentenced to death.  Executions would be carried out one week later in Washington, D. C.

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John Baer - Home, Tippecanoe County, IN

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More Information:

• The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 218. .
• Events: 1865   
  

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