Twelfth Air Force. Twelfth Air Force is inactivated in Italy.
Fifteenth Air Force. Colonel Elmer J Rogers Junior assumes
command of Fifteenth Air Force until its inactivation on
15
September 1945.
In Yokohama. General MacArthur establishes the supreme allied
command at the main port of Tokyo, as the first foreigner
to take charge of Japan in 1000 years. In discussing the preparations
for the formal surrender ceremony, scheduled for
2
September 1945, he said. The surrender plan has been going
splendidly. There is every indication that the occupation
will continue without bloodshed or friction. The American
occupation is continuing at a rate of 300 troop planes per
day.
In the Philippines. The remaining Japanese troops formally
surrender.
In Marcus Island. The Japanese garrison surrenders to the
American Admiral Francis E.M. Whiting.
In the United States of America. The government of the United
States of America re-establishes diplomatic relations with
Finland.
In Occupied Germany. Field Marshal
Walther
von Brauchitsch and Field Marshal
Erich
von Manstein are arrested by Allied authorities. Meanwhile,
the civilian population is in flux. Germans who fled the bombing
of their cities are going home to stake their claim on whatever
remains of their property. One in five persons in the western
zone of Germany is a refugee. There are also Germans driven
out of Poland and Silesia as well as other parts of eastern
Europe.
In Moscow. The government of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics re-establishes diplomatic relations with Finland.
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