Twelfth Air Force. With discontinuance of 6719th Women's Army
Corps (WAC) Headquarters Platoon, the Department, 1054th Military
Police Company, Aviation, remains the only unit still attached
to Twelfth Air Force.
Japan. Occupation of Japan officially begins as advance partially
arrives in Home Islands. The 11th Airborne Division landed
at Atsugi airfield while Marines land at Yokosuka naval base.
An advance guard of 150 American technicians land at Atsugi
airfield, near Yokohama. For the first time, the Allies set
foot on Japanese soil. Their arrival has been delayed for
48 hours by the forecast of a typhoon. Meanwhile, the southern
half of Sakhalin Island is occupied by Soviet forces.
In Occupied Germany.
Hermann
Göring,
Joachim
von Ribbentrop, and 22 others former National Socialist
government officials are indicted as war criminals.
Hermann
Göring heads the list of 24.
Rudolf
Hess, formerly deputy to
Adolf
Hitler, who has been a prisoner in Britain since May 1941,
is next on the list, followed by
Martin
Bormann, the secretary of the NSDAP, who disappeared from
the Berlin bunker. Others include
Konstantin
von Neurath, the first foreign minister to
Adolf
Hitler, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, the industrialist;
Franz
von Papen, the vice chancellor in 1933-34; and, Hjalmar
Schacht, who served as the minister of finance in the National
Socialist government until falling out of favor with
Adolf
Hitler.
In Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh announces his provisional government
for Vietnam part of French Indochina, with all the main posts
held by communists.
In Burma. Japanese forces sign a formal surrender in Rangoon.
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