August 3rd, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: London: Attlee appoints 19 new ministers, including Aneurin Bevin as health minister.
FRANCE: The battle-cruiser STRASBOURG, scuttled in 1942, is refloated.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: All ethnic Germans and Hungarians are deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship.
BURMA: Organized Japanese resistance comes to an end as the Allies win the "Battle of the Breakthrough"; of 10,000 Japanese troops defending the Pegu Yoma range, 8,300 are dead.
KURILE ISLANDS: 4 USN PB4Y-2 Privateers based in the Aleutians bomb Torishima Island and 11 small enemy craft are attacked in a bay north of Otomari Zaki on Onekotan Island.
JAPAN: US Twentieth Air Force 90+ VII Fighter Command P-47s and P-51s from Iwo Jima fly nearly 100 effective sorties throughout the Tokyo area, hitting airfields, rail installations, and trains.
B-29s drop mines to seal off all of Japan's main ports, leaving the country totally blockaded.
Mines previously laid by Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses sink two freighters and a transport and damage three other vessels.
CANADA: Armed yacht
HMCS Husky paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Minesweeper HMCS Fort Frances and HMC ML
117 and 119 paid off.
MARTINIQUE: Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-43 seaplane, msn 4306, registered NC15066, sinks on landing at Fort de France; 10 of the 14 aboard survive.