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28 August 1942

• A Japanese seaplane launched from a submarine drops bombs over forests in Oregon (USA)
  
  
• In New Guinea Pte Bruce Kingsbury becomes the first soldier to receive a Victoria Cross in Australian administered territory. He iis killed by a sniper whilst leading a charge, firing his Bren gun from the hip, which saves his Battalion HQ.

28 August 1943

Boris III, the pro-axis Tsar of Bulgaria is assassinated whilst returning to Sofia after a visit to Hitler

28 August 1945

• 150 American airborne trrops land at Atsuki airfield near Tokyo. The first allied troops to land on the Japanese mainland
  
  
• The battleship HMS Nelson anchors off Penang to take the Japanese surrender in Malaya