In China. Most of Manchuria has been overrun by Soviet forces.
They have taken Harbin and are closing in on Mukden and Changchun.
In an advance from near Vladivostock, they have entered northern
Korea. Japanese forces continue to resist in spite of the
Imperial order to surrender.
Japan. A photographer was killed and two members of the crew
wound in one of two American planes which were attacked by
14 Japanese fighters over Tokyo.
In the Pacific. Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian nationalist
leader, is fatally injured, his Japanese plane crashed off
of the island of Formosa en route to Tokyo.
In the Philippines. Missions from British Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek have arrived in Manila
for the conference with the Japanese surrender emissaries.
In the United States of America. Psychiatrists conclude that
Clarence V. Bertucci is mentally unbalanced. He is responsible
for the massacre of German prisoners of war at Camp Salina,
Utah on
8 July 1945.
In the Soviet Union. Moscow radio has broadcast a message
from Chiang Kai-shek to Joseph Stalin saying Close friendship
between our nations will not only server as an everlasting
foundation of peace in east Asia but will be an important
factor in the creation of a new order in the whole world.
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August
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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