General MacArthur is notified that he is Supreme Commander
for Allied powers. All offensive action against Japan ends.
Twelfth Air Force. All units are transferred or redeployed
with exception of 6719th Women's Army Corps (WAC) Headquarters
Platoon (an assigned unit) and Department, 1054th Military
Police Company, Aviation.
On this day in 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces the
news of his country's unconditional surrender in World War
II over a radio broadcast to the Japanese people. After meeting
with the Soviet Union in Potsdam, near Berlin, to determine
post-war terms for defeated Germany, the governments of the
United States and Great Britain (together with China) issued
an ultimatum to the Japanese government in late July 1945.
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The Second Great War.
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The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
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