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This Day in History: 1945-07-14

The Battleship USS South Dakota is the first US ship to bombard Japan as part of the shelling of the Kamaishi Steel Works in Kamaishi Honahu. Japan. This was the first gunfire attack on the Japanese home islands by heavy warships.  Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.

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