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1 Jan 1947
  • The American and British occupation zones in Germany merged to form the Bizone, which later became the Federal Republic of Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • Hjalmar Siilasvuo passed away. ww2dbase [Hjalmar Siilasvuo | CPC]
  • Miles Browning retired from the US Navy. ww2dbase [Miles Browning | CPC]
  • The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, signed into American law by US President Harry Truman on 1 Aug 1946, came into effect. Manhattan Project was thus turned over to the newly established civilian United States Atomic Energy Commission. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | CPC]
  • Escort carrier Makin Island was sold for scrap. ww2dbase [Makin Island | DS]
  • Kashima was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Kashima | CPC]
  • Smalley was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Smalley | CPC]
  • Philip was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Philip | CPC]
  • Shad was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Shad | CPC]
United States
3 Jan 1947
  • John Kennedy began his tenure in the United States House of Representatives for the 11th District in the state of Massachusetts. ww2dbase [John Kennedy | CPC]
5 Jan 1947

Photo(s) dated 5 Jan 1947
USS Sennet in Antarctica during Operation Highjump, 5 Jan 1947; note ice damage to the bow
7 Jan 1947
  • US General George Marshall departed China after failing to secure peace in China. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • Colorado was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Colorado | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • Roderick Carr became the Division Controller of the London and South East Division of the United Kingdom Ministry of Civil Aviation. ww2dbase [Roderick Carr | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 7 Jan 1947
United States Coast Guard J2F-6 Duck aircraft resting in Antarctic waters during Operation Hughjump, 7 Jan 1947; ship in background was either USS Yancey or USS Merrick
8 Jan 1947
  • Soviet Union turned over Slovak diplomat Jan Spisak, who had been arrested in Budapest, Hungary in Dec 1944, to Czechoslovakia for trial. ww2dbase [CPC]
9 Jan 1947
  • Bunker Hill was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Bunker Hill | CPC]
  • Essex was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Essex | CPC]
United States Photo(s) dated 9 Jan 1947
USS Bunker Hill, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Essex, USS Ticonderoga, USS Indiana, and USS Alabama at Pier 92, Seattle, Washington, United States, 9 Jan 1947
11 Jan 1947

Photo(s) dated 11 Jan 1947
Avro York aircraft
12 Jan 1947

Japan Panama Canal Zone
  • USS Sea Cat arrived at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | Balboa | CPC]
13 Jan 1947
  • Belleau Wood was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Belleau Wood | CPC]
  • Cowpens was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Cowpens | CPC]
14 Jan 1947
15 Jan 1947 United States
16 Jan 1947
  • Bernard Montgomery was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class of the Soviet Union and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion of the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Bernard Montgomery | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 16 Jan 1947
Aerial view of RAF Kings Cliffe airfield, England, United Kingdom, 16 Jan 1947
17 Jan 1947

China
  • Chinese Nationalist forces captured Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China, defeating the Communists forces garrisoned there. ww2dbase [Xiaoyi, Shanxi | CPC]
21 Jan 1947

United States
22 Jan 1947

Germany
23 Jan 1947
  • Roy Geiger passed away. ww2dbase [Roy Geiger | CPC]
24 Jan 1947
  • Montpelier was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Montpelier | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • S-29 was sold to the firm H. G. Pound of Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for scrapping. ww2dbase [S-29/P556 | Portsmouth, England | CPC]
United States
  • Clifton Cates became the President of the Advisory Board of Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | Quantico, Virginia | CPC]
27 Jan 1947

United States
  • USS Charr arrived at San Diego, California, United States, ending the simulated war patrol. During the patrol she visited Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii; Subic Bay, Philippine Islands; Shanghai and Qingdao, China; and Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Charr | San Diego, California | CPC]
28 Jan 1947
  • Former aircraft carrier Ranger was sold for scrapping. ww2dbase [Ranger | DS]
Japan
  • USS Sterlet departed Japan. ww2dbase [Sterlet | CPC]
United States
  • Destroyer Cummings was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Cummings | CPC]
30 Jan 1947

Japan
  • Shigeru Yoshida was made the Minister of Agriculture. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | CPC]
31 Jan 1947
  • South Dakota was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [South Dakota | CPC]
Germany Photo(s) dated 31 Jan 1947
Lowering USS South Dakota
1 Feb 1947
  • Renshaw was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Renshaw | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • Roderick Carr retired from military service. ww2dbase [Roderick Carr | CPC]
United States
2 Feb 1947
  • Submarine Pollack was sold to Ship-Shape, Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for scrap. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
3 Feb 1947 United States
4 Feb 1947
  • Grayson was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Grayson | CPC]
5 Feb 1947

United States
  • Kimberly was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Kimberly | CPC]
6 Feb 1947

China
  • A court in Najing, China, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, commanding officer of the Japanese 6th Division in Nanjing from late 1937, was found guilty of encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Hisao Tani | Nanjing | CPC]
7 Feb 1947
  • Denver was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Denver | CPC]
10 Feb 1947
  • Italy ceded most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • Minneapolis was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Minneapolis | CPC]
France
  • As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the Paris Peace Treaty in France, he became the only person to have signed the documents officially ending WW1 and WW2. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | Paris | CPC]
United States
11 Feb 1947
  • Bataan (Independence-class) was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Bataan (Independence-class) | CPC]
  • Cabot was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Cabot | CPC]
United States
12 Feb 1947

United States
  • USS Ray was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Ray | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
  • USS Bluefish was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Bluefish | CPC]
  • USS Haddock was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Haddock | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
14 Feb 1947
  • USS Tennessee was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Tennessee | CPC]
  • The scheduled overhaul work for USS Chub completed. ww2dbase [Chub | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • Roderick Carr was appointed King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire. ww2dbase [Roderick Carr | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 14 Feb 1947
Submarines Sawfish, Pargo, Puffer, and Steelhead at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 14 Feb 1947
15 Feb 1947

Japan
  • Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Minister of Agriculture. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | CPC]
United States
17 Feb 1947
  • Alaska was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Alaska | CPC]
  • Enterprise was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Enterprise | CPC]
  • Franklin was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
  • Guam was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Guam | CPC]
United States Photo(s) dated 17 Feb 1947
Japanese Army landing ship No. 108 at Saka, Japan, 17 Feb 1947Japanese Army landing ship No. 101 in Hiroshima Bay, Japan, 17 Feb 1947; note landing ship No. 108 background
20 Feb 1947

Photo(s) dated 20 Feb 1947
President Harry Truman and members of the National Defense Research Committee, White House, Washington D.C., United States, 20 Jan 1947.
21 Feb 1947

India
  • Louis Mountbatten was made the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, succeeding the Viscount Wavell, Archibald Wavell. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | CPC]
25 Feb 1947

United States
  • Battleship New Mexico was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
  • Helm was removed from the US Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Helm | CPC]
26 Feb 1947

Yugoslavia
28 Feb 1947

Taiwan
  • In Taiwan, Republic of China, a major uprising of Taiwanese led to brutal suppressions by the mainlander-dominated provincial government forces. 18,000 to 30,000 Taiwanese, deemed rebels, were killed by the end of the disorder. ww2dbase [CPC]
1 Mar 1947
  • San Jacinto was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [San Jacinto | CPC]
  • Intrepid was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Intrepid | CPC]
  • Song Ziwen stepped down as the chief of Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | CPC]
China
  • Chiang Kaishek was made the head of the Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]
3 Mar 1947
  • A petition sent by the "Association of Families of Victims of the Massacre of September 24-25, 1945 in Saigon" to French Minister for Overseas France named Colonel H. J. Cédile as the person responsible, suggesting that he had utterly failed to protect Europeans during the Vietnamese attack. ww2dbase [CPC]
7 Mar 1947
  • Robert Saundby was made a Commander of the Legion of Merit by the United States. ww2dbase [Robert Saundby | CPC]
  • Canberra (Baltimore-class) was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Canberra (Baltimore-class) | CPC]
8 Mar 1947

Russia
  • In Russia, TS-8 was renamed R-4, TS-9 was renamed R-5, TS-10 was renamed R-6, TS-11 was renamed R-7, and TS-12 was renamed R-8. ww2dbase [U-3538 | U-3539 | U-3540 | U-3541 | U-3542 | CPC]
9 Mar 1947

Greece
10 Mar 1947 China
  • Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was sentenced to death by a court in Nanjing, China for encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction at Nanjing in 1937 and 1938. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Nanjing | CPC]
  • Hisao Tani was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Hisao Tani | Nanjing | CPC]
11 Mar 1947

Poland
13 Mar 1947
  • USS Sennet completed her participated in the Operation Highjump Antarctic expedition. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]
14 Mar 1947
  • Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Resplendent Banner 3rd Class. ww2dbase [Dong Zhao | CPC]
Norway
  • Togo was transferred to the Norwegian Navy. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 14 Mar 1947
Demolished Japanese Koryu-class midget submarines among other debris at the shipyard in Kure, Japan, 14 Mar 1947Incomplete light carrier Ibuki being taken apart at Sasebo, Japan, 14 Mar 1947
15 Mar 1947
  • Joseph McNarney stepped down as the commanding general of US Forces in the European Theater. ww2dbase [Joseph McNarney | CPC]
19 Mar 1947

Luxembourg
  • George Patton's remains were moved to a different grave site within the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg. ww2dbase [George Patton | Hamm | CPC]
20 Mar 1947

Photo(s) dated 20 Mar 1947
HMAS Hobart in Sydney Harbor, Australia, 20 Mar 1947; note Sydney Harbour Bridge in background; photograph taken from aboard USS CurrituckRudolf Höss on trial at the Supreme National Tribunal, Warsaw, Poland, 11-29 Mar 1947
21 Mar 1947
  • Holland was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Holland | CPC]
United States
25 Mar 1947

Russia
  • Gunsyn Tsydenova stepped down as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russia. ww2dbase [Gunsyn Tsydenova | Ulan-Ude, Buryat-Mongol | CPC]
27 Mar 1947
  • Massachusetts was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Massachusetts | CPC]
Poland Yugoslavia
1 Apr 1947
  • George II passed away. ww2dbase [George II | CPC]
Yugoslavia
  • In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Hartwig von Ludwiger was found guilty for the harassment, torture, and murder of prisoners of war; for the looting and destruction of towns and villages; for the murder of civilians; and for the transfer of civilians to concentration camps. He was given the death sentence. ww2dbase [Hartwig von Ludwiger | Belgrade, Serbia | CPC]
2 Apr 1947

Poland
3 Apr 1947

United States
5 Apr 1947
  • Chinese communist forces attacked a US Marines ammunition depot. ww2dbase [CPC]
7 Apr 1947

Burma
  • In Burma elections for constituent assmblies were won, with an overwhelming majority, by the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League (AFPFL) led by Aung San and will now govern when independence is granted on 4 Jan 1948. ww2dbase [Aung San | AC]
China
  • Chen Lifu was named the chief secretary of the Central Political Committee of the Nationalist Party. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]
Poland
  • Graf Zeppelin departed Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) with loot aboard. ww2dbase [Graf Zeppelin | Szczecin | CPC]
United States
  • Chrysler Corporation, after having studied the Japanese Ne-20 turbojet engine which was originally designed for the Kikka jet aircraft, submitted an official report to the US military. ww2dbase [J9N-1/J9Y Kikka | CPC]
9 Apr 1947

Photo(s) dated 9 Apr 1947
General Dwight Eisenhower, Major General Muir Fairchild, and Major General David Schlatter at the Air University, Maxwell Field, Alabama, United States, 9 Apr 1947
10 Apr 1947
  • Rudolf Höss wrote a letter to the state prosecutor who had worked against him during his trial, noting that he realized he had sinned and was ready to receive the punishment of death. ww2dbase [Rudolf Höss | CPC]
11 Apr 1947

Poland
  • Rudolf Höss wrote the last letters to his wife and children from his prison cell in Poland. ww2dbase [Rudolf Höss | CPC]
13 Apr 1947
  • Nikolai Kamanin's son Arkady Kamanin passed away from meningitis. ww2dbase [Nikolai Kamanin | CPC]
15 Apr 1947
  • Jozef Tiso was found guilty of German collaboration and was sentenced to death. ww2dbase [Jozef Tiso | CPC]
16 Apr 1947

Poland Photo(s) dated 16 Apr 1947
Rudolf Höss being prepared for hanging, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 16 Apr 1947, photo 2 of 2Rudolf Höss being prepared for hanging, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 16 Apr 1947, photo 1 of 2Rudolf Höss arriving at the site of his execution, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 16 Apr 1947Rudolf Höss on the gallows, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 16 Apr 1947
18 Apr 1947
  • The Royal Canadian Air Force retired its fleet of Ventura aircraft. ww2dbase [Ventura | CPC]
  • Jozef Tiso was executed by hanging. ww2dbase [Jozef Tiso | CPC]
China
  • Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the head of the Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]
  • Chan Chak was made a senior adviser to the Chinese central government. ww2dbase [Chan Chak | CPC]
19 Apr 1947

Photo(s) dated 19 Apr 1947
Lieutenant General James Doolittle being presented a plaque containing a fragment of a wrecked B-25 bomber that had participated in the Doolittle Raid, Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 19 Apr 1947Plaque containing a fragment of a wrecked B-25 bomber that had participated in the Doolittle Raid; this was presented to James Doolittle on 19 Apr 1947James Doolittle and fellow raiders at a reunion in Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 19 Apr 1947
20 Apr 1947
  • Christian X passed away. ww2dbase [Christian X | CPC]
22 Apr 1947

Photo(s) dated 22 Apr 1947
Kim Gu, Ji Cheong-cheon, Kim Yu-sik, Rhee Syngman, and Fraziska Donner at Gimpo Airport, Korea, 22 Apr 1947
23 Apr 1947
  • The battleship HMS Warspite was wrecked on the rocks of Mounts Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, while being towed to the breakers. ww2dbase [Warspite | AC]
United States
24 Apr 1947

Russia
  • Buran ceased her role as an experimental ship. ww2dbase [F7 | CPC]
25 Apr 1947

China
  • Hisao Tani's appeal against his death sentence was rejected by Chiang Kaishek. ww2dbase [Hisao Tani | CPC]
26 Apr 1947

China
  • Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad at Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Nanjing | CPC]
  • Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad on Mount Yuhuatai in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Hisao Tani | Nanjing | CPC]
  • Pan Yukun was made the commanding officer of New 1st Army. ww2dbase [Pan Yukun | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 26 Apr 1947
Hisao Tani being executed for war crimes, Mount Yuhuatai, Nanjing, China, 26 Apr 1947Hisao Tani awaiting execution, Mount Yuhuatai, Nanjing, China, 26 Apr 1947Hisao Tani being escorted to his place of execution, Nanjing, China, 26 Apr 1947
27 Apr 1947
  • Captain Richard C. Lake was made the commanding officer of USS Proteus, replacing Captain James Jordan. ww2dbase [Proteus | CPC]
30 Apr 1947

United States
1 May 1947
  • Light carrier Hosho's scrapping was completed by Hitachi Zosen, Sakurajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
United States
  • USS Sterlet reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco, California, United States for inactivation. ww2dbase [Sterlet | San Francisco, California | CPC]
3 May 1947
  • SB No. 125 (formerly landing ship No. 108) was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
  • Suffren was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Suffren | CPC]
Japan
  • Crown Prince Yi Un lost his Japanese royal status. ww2dbase [Yi Un | CPC]
Yugoslavia
6 May 1947

United States
8 May 1947

United Kingdom
  • Harry Gordon Selfridge died at the age of 83 from bronchial pneumonia in the district of Putney in London, England, United Kingdom. The American founder of the London luxury department store was pennyless, but he created an idea that revolutionised shopping forever. Selfridge believed the customer was always right and provided restaurants and attentive salespeople to keep customers in his shop for longer. But the Depression and his lavish spending and gambling habits meant he owed a quarter of a million pounds by 1940. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]
9 May 1947
  • Hancock was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Hancock | CPC]
10 May 1947

China
  • He Yingqin was named the chairman of the military committee of the Office of the President of the Republic of China. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
12 May 1947

Photo(s) dated 12 May 1947
Wilhelm List receiving his indictment during the Hostage Trial, Nürnberg, Germany, 12 May 1947; note Maximilian von Weichs next to List
14 May 1947

French Morocco
  • Alphonse Pierre Juin was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Eirik Labonne. ww2dbase [CPC]
15 May 1947
  • USS Sea Robin commenced a simulated war patrol which called for her to circumnavigate South America; she would become the first American submarine to round Cape Horn. ww2dbase [Sea Robin | CPC]
China
  • Chinese communist forces launched an offensive in northeastern China. ww2dbase [CPC]
Photo(s) dated 15 May 1947
Su Yu and other Communist Chinese officers during the Menglianggu Campaign, Shandong Province, China, mid-May 1947
16 May 1947

China
  • Zhang Linfu committed suicide in his command cave in Menglianggu, Mengyin County, Shandong Province, China. ww2dbase [Zhang Lingfu | Mengyin, Shandong | CPC]
18 May 1947

China
  • Chinese communist forces captured Huaide County, Jilin Province, China. ww2dbase [Jilin | CPC]
20 May 1947

Greece
23 May 1947
  • The British divided India into India and Pakistan. ww2dbase [CPC]
24 May 1947

Japan
  • Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 24 May 1947
Battleship USS Iowa on display in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 24 May 1947. Note San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island in the background.
26 May 1947

China
  • Chinese communist forces captured Faku County, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Liaoning | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 26 May 1947
Yukikaze unarmed at Tokyo, Japan, on display for representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, and China, 26 May 1947View of the YukikazeYukikaze and Shisaka at Tokyo, Japan, 26 May 1947, photo 1 of 2Yukikaze and Shisaka at Tokyo, Japan, 26 May 1947, photo 2 of 2
See all photos dated 26 May 1947
27 May 1947

China
  • Chinese communist forces captured Changtu County, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Liaoning | CPC]
United States
  • Daniel Inouye was honorably discharged from the US Army at the rank of captain. ww2dbase [Daniel Inouye | CPC]
28 May 1947
  • Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Precious Tripod 4th Class. ww2dbase [Dong Zhao | CPC]
1 Jun 1947
  • The United States ended the rationing of sugar. ww2dbase [CPC]
2 Jun 1947

Russia
  • Stepan Petrichenko, a former spy for the Soviet Union in Finland but had fell out of favor with the leadership, died while in captivity at the Solikamsk Labor Camp in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. ww2dbase [Solikamsk, Perm | CPC]
3 Jun 1947

Brazil
  • In exile, King Carol II of Romania married his mistress Magda Lupescu in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ww2dbase [Carol II | Rio de Janeiro | AC]
4 Jun 1947
  • To combat the increasing amount of pilfering, the Soviet Union, at Stalin's insistence, passed a new draconian law increasing the penalty for economic crime. Between 1947 and 1952 some one and a half million (often desperate or hungry) Russians would be sent to the gulag camps on charges of state theft often for quite trivial misdemeanours. ww2dbase [AC]
5 Jun 1947
  • The Marshall Plan was proposed. ww2dbase [CPC]
Photo(s) dated 5 Jun 1947
Honorary degree award ceremony for Robert Oppenheimer, George Marshall, Omar Bradley, and T. S. Eliot at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 5 Jun 1947
6 Jun 1947

Russia
  • Kirill Meretskov was awarded his fifth Order of Lenin. ww2dbase [Kirill Meretskov | CPC]
7 Jun 1947

United Kingdom
  • RAF Sergeant John Hannah, who as an 18-year-old had won the Victoria Cross during a raid on Antwerp in Belgium (having never fully recovered from burns and smoke inhalation), died of tuberculosis in Markfield, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Markfield, England | AC]
9 Jun 1947

France
  • Jean de Laborde's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. ww2dbase [Jean de Laborde | CPC]
11 Jun 1947

Photo(s) dated 11 Jun 1947
Emperor Showa visiting Kobe, Japan, 11 Jun 1947
12 Jun 1947
  • Richard O'Connor was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. ww2dbase [Richard O'Connor | CPC]
13 Jun 1947

China
  • Pan Yukun was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. ww2dbase [Pan Yukun | CPC]
15 Jun 1947

China
  • Chinese communist forces began an attack on Siping, Liaobei Province, China. ww2dbase [Siping, Liaobei | CPC]
17 Jun 1947

Belgium
  • The government of Belgium submitted an extradition request for Pierre Daye to the government of Argentina. ww2dbase [Pierre Daye | CPC]
China
  • War criminals Sergeant Jiro Shimoda and Captain Harochi Yonemura were executed in Shanghai, China. Shimoda had plundered and raped Chinese civilians during the occupation, including several murders committed at Jianying 85 miles northwest of Shanghai on the date of the surrender. Yonemura had ordered enlisted men under his command to bury, while alive, more than 100 Chinese civilians in Changshu near the city of Suzhou. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Shanghai | CPC]
19 Jun 1947
  • Commander Oliver Bagby became the commanding officer of USS Charr. ww2dbase [Charr | CPC]
  • A P-80R jet aircraft, piloted by Colonel Albert Boyd, set a world air speed record of 1,004.2 kilometers per hour (623.73 miles per hour). ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 19 Jun 1947
Iwane Matsui during the trial for war crimes at International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 19 Jun 1947
26 Jun 1947
  • Hereditary Grand Duke Jean relinquished his commission in the British Army. ww2dbase [Jean | ]
27 Jun 1947
  • Robert Saundby was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II with Palms by Belgium. ww2dbase [Robert Saundby | CPC]
  • USS Washington was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Washington | CPC]
  • North Carolina was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [North Carolina | CPC]
30 Jun 1947 China
  • Chinese Nationalist forces lifted the siege of Siping, Liaobei Province, China. ww2dbase [Siping, Liaobei | CPC]
United States
  • USS Miami was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Miami | CPC]
1 Jul 1947
  • Tribune was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Tribune | CPC]
China Greece
  • Alexandros Sakellariou was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour. ww2dbase [Alexandros Sakellariou | CPC]
United States
  • Aubrey Fitch retired from military service. ww2dbase [Aubrey Fitch | DS]
3 Jul 1947

Japan
  • Kamoi was officially removed from the Japanese list. ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]
6 Jul 1947
  • The AK-47 assault rifle entered production in the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • Destroyer Yukikaze was transferred to the Republic of China as war reparation. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
8 Jul 1947

China Photo(s) dated 8 Jul 1947
Ilse Koch at the US Military Tribunal in Dachau, Germany, 8 Jul 1947
9 Jul 1947

Belgium
  • Ward Hermans' sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. ww2dbase [Ward Hermans | CPC]
United Kingdom
  • 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom announced her engagement to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, the former Prince of Greece and Denmark. ww2dbase [AC]
17 Jul 1947

Russia
  • Raoul Wallenberg passed away in Soviet captivity to unknown cause. ww2dbase [Raoul Wallenberg | CPC]
United States
  • Destroyer Cummings was sold for scrap. ww2dbase [Cummings | CPC]
19 Jul 1947
  • Aung San was assassinated in Rangoon, Burma. ww2dbase [Aung San | CPC]
China
  • Yan Xishan was named a National Assembly Representative and a member of the Legislative Yuan. ww2dbase [Yan Xishan | CPC]
20 Jul 1947
  • The Dutch authorised a "Police Action" involving three divisions on Java and three Brigades on the larger, but less populated, Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch forces managed to capture most towns and interned the Nationalist insurgents, but most insurgents fled to the hills where they continued to mount guerrilla raids. ww2dbase [AC]
26 Jul 1947

Russia
  • The Soviet MGB moved Finnish prisoners from labor camps to the Vladimir Prison in Vladimir, Russia to keep their whereabouts secret. ww2dbase [Vladimir | CPC]
28 Jul 1947

Germany
  • British engineers demolished the smaller building of the Berlin Zoo Flak Tower complex in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Berlin Zoo Flak Tower | Berlin | CPC]
30 Jul 1947
  • Chen Cheng was named the commander-in-chief of Nationalist forces in northeastern China. ww2dbase [Chen Cheng | CPC]
  • USS Boarfish became the flagship of Rear Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann of Task Group 17.3, which was to embark on the first expedition under the Polar Ice Cap in the Bering Strait. ww2dbase [Boarfish | CPC]
1 Aug 1947
  • Arthur Coningham retired from the Royal Air Force. ww2dbase [Arthur Coningham | CPC]
United States
  • FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters were withdrawn from service by the US Navy. ww2dbase [FR Fireball | CPC]
7 Aug 1947

Photo(s) dated 7 Aug 1947
Chiang Kaishek inspecting Yan
9 Aug 1947

Photo(s) dated 9 Aug 1947
Emperor Showa visiting Koiwai Farm, Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 9 Aug 1947
12 Aug 1947
  • Formidable was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Formidable | CPC]
14 Aug 1947
  • Pakistan was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. ww2dbase [CPC]
Germany
  • Josias was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement with Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. ww2dbase [Josias | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 14 Aug 1947
Prince Josias at the Buchenwald trial, Dachau, Germany, 14 Aug 1947
15 Aug 1947
  • India was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Republic of India. "Jai Hind", the battle cry of the Indian National Army, became India's first commemorative postal marking. ww2dbase [CPC]
Photo(s) dated 15 Aug 1947
Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina Mountbatten at the swearing in ceremony of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Government House, New Delhi, India, 0830 hours, 15 Aug 1947Louis Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Rajendra Prasad at the Midnight Session of Parliament, India, 15 Aug 1947Louis Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten, and Jawaharlal Nehru during the independence ceremony of India, 15 Aug 1947Lord Mountbatten addressing the Independence Day session of the Constituent Assembly, India, 15 Aug 1947; note President of the Assembly Rajendra Prasad seated to his right
16 Aug 1947
  • Graf Zeppelin sank in the Baltic Sea, possibly as a target ship for the Soviet Navy. ww2dbase [Graf Zeppelin | CPC]
  • Captain Stanley Leith was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]
China
  • Tang Enbo was relieved of duty as the commanding officer of the Capital Garrison. ww2dbase [Tang Enbo | CPC]
19 Aug 1947

Germany
  • Ilse Koch was found guilty of violating laws and customs of war, and sentenced to life imprisonment. ww2dbase [Ilse Koch | CPC]
20 Aug 1947
  • The Doctors' Trial ended in Nuremberg, in which an United States military court found 16 of the 20 doctors and 3 Nazi officials guilty of human experimentation. 7 were given death sentences and 9 were given prison sentences. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]
25 Aug 1947

Photo(s) dated 25 Aug 1947
Stern view of USS Becuna departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 25 Aug 1947Broadside view of USS Becuna departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 25 Aug 1947Bow view of USS Becuna departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 25 Aug 1947
29 Aug 1947
  • Salt Lake City was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Salt Lake City | CPC]
Greece
  • Alexandros Sakellariou was made the Minister of Supply and the acting Minister of Merchant Marine. ww2dbase [Alexandros Sakellariou | CPC]
30 Aug 1947
  • US Marines departed China. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • USS Missouri arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
Germany
  • British engineers set off 25 tons of explosives in a failed attempt to demolish the main building of the Berlin Zoo Flak Tower in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Berlin Zoo Flak Tower | Berlin | CPC]
31 Aug 1947
  • Ira Eaker retired from the US Army. ww2dbase [Ira Eaker | CPC]
1 Sep 1947
  • About half of university students in the United States on this date were WW2 veterans. ww2dbase [CPC]
2 Sep 1947
  • US President Harry Truman embarked USS Missouri at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
3 Sep 1947

China
  • Song Tingcai led 400 militia troops in a failed action against a much larger Communist force at Tianhu, Henan Province, China. ww2dbase [Song Tiancai | Tiannhu, Henan | CPC]
4 Sep 1947

Hawaii
7 Sep 1947

United States
  • USS Missouri arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, disembarking US President Harry Truman. ww2dbase [Missouri | Norfolk, Virginia | CPC]
10 Sep 1947

Australian New Guinea Russia
11 Sep 1947
  • Indiana was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Indiana | CPC]
18 Sep 1947
  • The United States Air Force (USAF) became an officially independent member of the newly unified US armed services, and was no longer under the control of the US Army. ww2dbase [AC]
United States
  • James Doolittle transferred from the US Army Reserve to the US Air Force Reserve; he retained the rank of lieutenant general. ww2dbase [James Doolittle | CPC]
20 Sep 1947

Russia
  • Kirill Meretskov was awarded the In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow medal. ww2dbase [Kirill Meretskov | CPC]
21 Sep 1947

Russia
  • Kliment Voroshilov was given the medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]
22 Sep 1947

United States
23 Sep 1947
  • USS Missouri entered New York Naval Shipyard in New York, United States for a scheduled overhaul. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
26 Sep 1947

United States
  • USS Proteus was decommissioned from US Navy service but remained operational at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Proteus | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
29 Sep 1947

United States
  • USS Brill began a scheduled overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Brill | San Francisco, California | CPC]
1 Oct 1947

China
  • Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the commandant of the Chinese Central Aviation Academy at Jianqio Airfield, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, handing the resonsibility over to Lieutenant General Hu Weike. ww2dbase [Jianqiao Airfield | Chiang Kaishek | Hangzhou, Zhejiang | CPC]
United States
  • XP-86 prototype jet fighter flew for the first time at Muroc Field, California, United States with George Welch in the cockpit. ww2dbase [George Welch | Lancaster, California | CPC]
2 Oct 1947

France
  • Capitaine de vaisseau Beaussant was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. ww2dbase [Jeanne d'Arc | CPC]
United States
  • Helm was sold for scrap. ww2dbase [Helm | CPC]
3 Oct 1947

China
  • Japanese landing ship No. 172 was turned over to the Republic of China Navy at Qingdao, Shandong Province, China; she was renamed Lui Shan and would remain in Chinese service until 1955. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Qingdao, Shandong | CPC]
France
  • Capitaine de vaisseau Cabanier was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. ww2dbase [Jeanne d'Arc | CPC]
Russia
10 Oct 1947

United States
  • The US firm Curtiss-Wright closed its aircraft manufacturing division. ww2dbase [CPC]
14 Oct 1947

Japan
  • Prince Yasuhiko lost his imperial status and privileges and was made a common citizen. ww2dbase [Yasuhiko | CPC]
  • Morimasa's princely title was abolished. ww2dbase [Morimasa | Tokyo | CPC]
Netherlands
  • Queen Wilhelmina passed her monarchial duties to Princess Juliana due to health issues. ww2dbase [Wilhelmina | CPC]
United States
  • Over the Mojave Desert in California, United States, Captain Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 prototype rocket-powered aircraft out of the bomb bay of a B-29 bomber at the altitude of 23,000 feet, ascended to 43,000 feet, and broke the sound barrier at the speed of 700 miles per hour. ww2dbase [Charles Yeager | California | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 14 Oct 1947
Yeager in front of the X-1 aircraft, 14 Oct 1947
15 Oct 1947

United States
  • Gato-class submarine USS Silversides was recommissioned and designated as a stationary reserve training ship in Chicago, Illinois. ww2dbase [Silversides | Chicago, Illinois | DS]
16 Oct 1947

Photo(s) dated 16 Oct 1947
Artur Axmann being interviewed, Bayern, Germany, 16 Oct 1947
17 Oct 1947

Japan
  • Prince Naruhiko was stripped of his royal title, and along with it, most of his wealth. ww2dbase [Naruhiko | CPC]
Singapore
  • SB No. 125 (formerly landing ship No. 108) and another SB ship (formerly landing ship No. 110) were surrendered to the United Kingdom at Singapore. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Singapore | CPC]
18 Oct 1947

Japan
  • Crown Prince Yi Un lost his Japanese citizenship and became a stateless person. ww2dbase [Yi Un | CPC]
20 Oct 1947
  • Destroyer HMCS Cayuga was commissioned into service with Commander O. C. S. Robertson in command. ww2dbase [AC]
25 Oct 1947

Photo(s) dated 25 Oct 1947
DH.89A aircraft of the Israeli airline Aviron, 25 Oct 1947
27 Oct 1947

Finland
  • Fanni Luukkonen passed away from a heart attack in Helsinki, Finland. ww2dbase [Fanni Luukkonen | Helsinki | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 27 Oct 1947
Emperor Showa gazing at the Cryptomeria tree
28 Oct 1947
  • Louis Mountbatten was made Earl Mountbatten of Burma. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | CPC]
1 Nov 1947

Panama
  • Tu Yuntan (Tu Yuen-ten) stepped down as the Chinese ambassador to Panama. ww2dbase [Panama City | CPC]
2 Nov 1947

United States
  • Millionaire Howard Hughes piloted his 180-ton Hercules flying-boat as it took to the air for its only flight over Los Angeles harbour, California, United States, covering a distance of just one mile. Seven times the size of the DC-6 aircraft, the then largest operational commercial airliner, it was also the largest flying-boat ever built. Powered by eight Pratt & Whitney piston engines it was intended that it would carry up to 700 passengers. ww2dbase [Los Angeles, California | AC]
3 Nov 1947
  • Pohl Trial in Nuremberg ended; out of 17 defendants, 2 were acquitted while the other 15 former SS men were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, largely for their role in the atrocities committed against concentration camp victims. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]
  • John Winant committed suicide in his home in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. ww2dbase [John Winant | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 3 Nov 1947
Clement Attlee, Violet Attlee, and others at Schiphol airport, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, 3 Nov 1947
4 Nov 1947

Photo(s) dated 4 Nov 1947
USS Blenny off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 4 Nov 1947, photo 1 of 3USS Blenny off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 4 Nov 1947, photo 2 of 3USS Blenny off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 4 Nov 1947, photo 3 of 3
5 Nov 1947

Japan
  • Paul Wenneker was released from American internment in Japan. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | CPC]
6 Nov 1947

Russia
  • Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fifth time. ww2dbase [Semyon Timoshenko | CPC]
  • Kirill Meretskov was awarded his fourth Order of Red Banner. ww2dbase [Kirill Meretskov | CPC]
7 Nov 1947

United States
  • USS Shangri-La was decommissioned from service and was placed in the Reserve Fleet at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Shangri-La | San Francisco, California | CPC]
8 Nov 1947
9 Nov 1947

United States
  • Battleship New Mexico was sold for scrapping to the Lipsett Division of the firm Luria Brothers and Company for US $381,600. She departed Boston, Massachusetts, United States toward Newark, New Jersey, United States where Lipsett was to scrap the ship. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Boston, Massachusetts | CPC]
10 Nov 1947

Belgium
12 Nov 1947

Atlantic Ocean
  • Battleship New Mexico, while being towed by tugboats off New York, United States, encountered heavy weather. The tugboats were forced to cut the tow lines. She drifted and became lost. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
13 Nov 1947

Atlantic Ocean
  • Battleship New Mexico was spotted by a US Coast Guard aircraft 35 miles off the coast of New York, United States. Two tugboats were dispatched to the battleship. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
Japan
14 Nov 1947

United States
  • The city of Newark, New Jersey, United States dispatched two aging fireboats, Michael P. Duffy and William T. Brennan, to block the entrance of Newark Bay. The city administration, which had already embarked on a costly beautification program, did not wish to play host to the scrapping of a battleship. The US Coast Guard and four tug boats of the Lipsett Division of the firm Luria Brothers and Company stood on the other side of the line with battleship New Mexico behind them. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Newark, New Jersey | CPC]
  • Alamogordo Army Air Field near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States supported Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base in the launching of the first Boeing Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft. ww2dbase [Alamogordo Army Air Field | Alamogordo, New Mexico | CPC]
15 Nov 1947

Hawaii United States
18 Nov 1947
  • Arthur Coningham was awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange Nassau of the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Arthur Coningham | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 18 Nov 1947
US Army portrait of Eisenhower, 18 Nov 1947
19 Nov 1947
  • The city of Newark, New Jersey, United States reached a settlement with Lipsett Division of the firm Luria Brothers and Company, allowing the company to nine months to scrap battleship New Mexico in the city. Delays would cost the company US$1,000 per day. Battleship New Mexico was towed into Newark Bay within hours. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Newark, New Jersey | CPC]
24 Nov 1947

Poland United States
  • The scrapping of battleship New Mexico began at the facilities of Lipsett Division of the firm Luria Brothers and Company in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The work would complete in Jul 1948. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Newark, New Jersey | CPC]
26 Nov 1947

Hungary United States
  • Wolverine was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal. ww2dbase [Wolverine | DS]
28 Nov 1947

Algeria
  • Philippe Leclerc was killed when the B-25 aircraft he traveled aboard crashed near Colomb-Béchar, South Territory, French Algeria. ww2dbase [Philippe Leclerc | Colomb-Béchar | CPC]
29 Nov 1947
  • The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan). ww2dbase [CPC]
1 Dec 1947

Australia Netherlands
  • Princess Juliana returned monarchial duties to Queen Wilhelmina as the queen's health improved. ww2dbase [Wilhelmina | CPC]
2 Dec 1947
  • Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. ww2dbase [Ivan Bagramyan | CPC]
4 Dec 1947

Photo(s) dated 4 Dec 1947
Thakin Nu visiting Mohandas Gandhi at the Birla House, New Delhi, Delhi, India, 4 Dec 1947
5 Dec 1947

Photo(s) dated 5 Dec 1947
Christmas celebration in Soekaboemi (Sukabumi), Java, Dutch East Indies, 5 Dec 1947; note Diamond T truck
6 Dec 1947 Australia
7 Dec 1947

Photo(s) dated 7 Dec 1947
Emperor Showa visiting Hiroshima, Japan, 7 Dec 1947; note Hiroshima Peace Memorial in background
12 Dec 1947
  • Victoria Cross winner Nand Singh of the Indian Army was killed whilst leading a successful attack to extricate his battalion from an ambush by Kashmir raiders from Pakistan. ww2dbase [AC]
13 Dec 1947

Photo(s) dated 13 Dec 1947
Aerial view of Carlsen Field, Trinidad, 13 Dec 1947; photo taken by aircraft of USAF 39th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
14 Dec 1947

Guam
  • USS Sterlet arrived at Guam. ww2dbase [Sterlet | CPC]
16 Dec 1947

Poland United States
  • LST-412 was sold to Northern Metals Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for scrapping. ww2dbase [LST-412 | CPC]
20 Dec 1947
  • HMAS Hobart was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Hobart | CPC]
22 Dec 1947

Poland
  • The Polish Supreme National Tribunal issued judgement on the 40 former Auschwitz Concentration Camp staff members tried during the First Auschwitz Trial which concluded 6 days prior. 23 were found guilty and were given death sentences, 16 were found guilty and were given prison terms, and 1 was acquitted. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Kraków | CPC]
25 Dec 1947
  • The Constitution of the Republic of China came into effect. ww2dbase [CPC]
28 Dec 1947

Egypt
30 Dec 1947

Romania
  • King Mihai I of Romania was forced to abdicate the throne by the Soviet-backed communist government. ww2dbase [Mihai I | CPC]
31 Dec 1947

United States
  • Clifton Cates was promoted to the temporary rank of general and was made the commandant of the US Marine Corps. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | CPC]



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