Diary for Tuesday, June 26, 1945:
Air War
Pacific: Radar-equipped B-29 Superfortress bomb Utsube Oil Refinery at Yokkaichi, near Nagoya: first of 15 heavy night raids on Japanese oil targets in June-August.
Politics
UN CHARTER (World Security Charter) SIGNED by representatives of 50 nations at San Francisco. Truman pleads with signatories to translate ‘lofty words’ of the Charter into ‘worthy deeds’. Allied lawyers discuss War Crimes Trial procedure in London.