SEPTEMBER 1945
    Sixty years ago,   The Pacific War is over. The atomic bomb and Soviet invasion cause even the most hardened Japanese leaders to realize the facts. Planned surrender ceremony of Aug 28, the 6th anniversary of start of war in Europe, is delayed by storms The US arrives to collect POWS and internees.. America rejoices. Empires rush to reestablish their colonies who have other ideas.
  • Sep 1 . Two civilian internment camps found near Tokyo; internees evacuated in hospital ship Benevolence (AH-13).
  • Sep 2 . Surrender signing on USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by one government official and one military leader on the Japanese side and its acceptance by representatives of nine Allied nations. .
      Japanese outposts begin surrendering to destroyers raced there to accept.
      Navy food saved many from starving.
      Soviet troops cease fighting -- had fought for land until the official signing.
  • Sep 4 . Wake Island surrenders ; Jap troops dieing of starvation.
  • Sep 6 . Rabaul surrenders aboard HMS Glory to Australians.
  • Sep 10. Midway (CVB-41) commissioned ; 1st of class, twice the displacement of Essex class, fought in Vietnam.
  • Sep 11. Operation Magic Carpet begins return of U.S. troops to United States.
  • Sep 12. Tojo fails in suicide.
  • Sep 13. Nauru and Ocean Island surrender to Australians.
  • Sep 15. Industrial strikes spread across U.S.
  • Sept   . B-29 on POW supply mission over Korea attacked by Soviet fighter, crash lands.
  • Sep 20. Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India.
  • Sep 26. Rebellion against French in Indo-China.
  • Sep 27. Hirohito visits MacArthur.
  • Sep 28. Rioting in Indonesia against Dutch.
  • Sept 30. Marines start landing in Tangku, China, move to Tientsin & Peking.
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