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- The nationalised British Rail came into existence. ww2dbase [AC]
- Nymphe was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Nymphe | CPC]
- Pedro del Valle retired from military service. ww2dbase [Pedro del Valle | CPC]
- The former King Mihai I of Romania was exiled out of the country. ww2dbase [Mihai I | CPC]
- 2nd Royal Berkshires departs Rangoon, Burma, on HMS Scythia as the last British battalion to leave the country that so many had died to liberate. ww2dbase [AC]
- Irina Burnaia fled out of Romania for Lebanon. ww2dbase [Irina Burnaia | CPC]
Burma
- The Union of Burma was declared, with U Nu as its first Prime Minister. Communist groups such as White Flags, Red Flags, and the Revolutionary Burma Army refused to recognize the new state and threatened it with armed conflict. Unlike most other former colonies, Burma declined to become a member of the Commonwealth. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Thakin Nu was made the first Prime Minister of Burma. ww2dbase [U Nu | CPC]
- Bruce Fraser was awarded the Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav. ww2dbase [Bruce Fraser | CPC]
- Alamogordo Army Air Field near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States was renamed Holloman Air Force Base. ww2dbase [Alamogordo Army Air Field | Alamogordo, New Mexico | CPC]
China
- Wei Lihuang was made the commanding officer of the Northeast Anti-Communist Headquarters in Mukden (Shenyang), Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Mukden, Liaoning | CPC]
- Julius Adler was promoted to the rank of major general. ww2dbase [Julius Adler | CPC]
- Erich Mußfeldt was executed by hanging in Poland for crimes committed during his tenure at Majdanek and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. ww2dbase [Erich Mußfeldt | CPC]
- Arthur Liebehenschel, former Majdanek Concentration Camp commandant, was executed by hanging. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Majdanek Concentration Camp | Lublin | CPC]
- Arthur Coningham departed Lisbon, Portugal. ww2dbase [Arthur Coningham | Lisbon | CPC]
- Arthur Coningham departed Santa Maria, Azores. ww2dbase [Arthur Coningham | CPC]
- Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic in New Dehli, India. ww2dbase [AC]
- The Avro 688 Tudor Mark IV aircarft which Arthur Coningham traveled aboard disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle some time between 0304 hours and 0350 hours. ww2dbase [Arthur Coningham | CPC]
- Vittorio Veneto was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Vittorio Veneto | CPC]
Finland
- Lennart Oesch was released early from his penal servitude sentence in Finland. ww2dbase [Lennart Oesch | CPC]
- Ceylon was granted independence with Dominion status. ww2dbase [AC]
- Johannes Blaskowitz passed away. ww2dbase [Johannes Blaskowitz | CPC]
United Kingdom
- Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. ww2dbase [Bruce Fraser | CPC]
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- USS Baya was recommissioned into service. ww2dbase [Baya | CPC]
Japan
- Prince Takahito's son Prince Yoshihito was born. ww2dbase [Takahito | CPC]
China
- Gao Youxin was killed after accidentally falling onto train tracks in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Gao Youxin | Nanjing | CPC]
- Eighty-year-old Imam Yahya, the ruler of Yemen, was assassinated. During the war Imam Yahya had been courted by Adolf Hitler and received presents from him, but had turned down a treaty with Germany and maintained a policy of neutrality. His son and successor, Imam Ahmed, moving quickly to despatch thirty of his father's conspirators by having them publicly beheaded by a large grinning slave in the square at Hajjah. Ahmed would begin his reign by publicly blaming Britain for his father's death; claiming that dissident groups like "The Free Yemini" movement were sponsored by the British administration in Aden. ww2dbase [AC]
China
United States
- USS Boarfish departed Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Boarfish | Vallejo, California | CPC]
Russia
- Kliment Voroshilov was given the medal commemorating "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy". ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]
- Kirill Meretskov was awarded the 30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy medal. ww2dbase [Kirill Meretskov | CPC]
United States
- USS Brill departed San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Brill | San Francisco, California | CPC]
- A communist government took power in Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [CPC]
Russia
- The Curtiss Model 29A (or XF-87 Blackhawk) two-seat all-weather interceptor powered by four Westinghouse XJ34 turbojets took the first flight. ww2dbase [AC]
- USS Missouri completed her scheduled overhaul at New York Naval Shipyard in New York, United States. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]
- Tamalpais was reactivated by the Navy but not placed in commission, operating as USNS Tamalpais with the Military Sea Transportation Service. ww2dbase [Tamalpais | Mobile, Alabama | DS]
- 30 Japanese officers, doctors, and a female nurse were tried by the Allied war crimes tribunal for human experimentation in China. 23 of them would later be found guilty, with 5 sentenced to death. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | CPC]
- Fieberling was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Fieberling | CPC]
United States
- USS Brill arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Brill | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
- Queen Elizabeth was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Queen Elizabeth | CPC]
- HMS Valiant was sold for scrap while at Devonport, Devon, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Valiant | Devonport, England | CPC]
Philippines
- Carlsen Field in Trinidad was renamed Carlsen Air Force Base by the US Department of the Air Force General Order Number 10. ww2dbase [Carlsen Field | Chaguanas | CPC]
- The US base at Chaguramas, Trinidad was renamed Waller Air Force Base. ww2dbase [Chaguramas | CPC]
Hawaii
- USS Bugara arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Bugara | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- The United States Congress voted for the funding for the Marshall Plan. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Barbero was activated as an experimental cargo submarine. ww2dbase [Barbero | CPC]
- The former Japanese Navy landing ship No. 147 was scrapped in the United States. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
Greenland
- Bluie West Eight airfield in Greenland was assigned to the US Military Air Transport Service. ww2dbase [Bluie West Eight | South Greenland | CPC]
United States
- Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Benjamin Kelsey | CPC]
- The trial against Albert Forster began at Gdansk, Poland by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. ww2dbase [Albert Forster | CPC]
United States
- USS Whale arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States by tow. ww2dbase [Whale | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | CPC]
- Starting on this date and lasting through the following month, the United States test detonated three nuclear weapons at Eniwetak, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Kantaro Suzuki passed away. ww2dbase [Kantaro Suzuki | CPC]
- Manuel Roxas passed away. ww2dbase [Manuel Roxas | CPC]
- Mitsumasa Yonai passed away. ww2dbase [Mitsumasa Yonai | CPC]
- ShCh-307 was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [ShCh-307 | CPC]
- Francis Tuker retired from military service. ww2dbase [Francis Tuker | CPC]
- ShCh-307 was converted to a floating charging station with the new designation PZS-5. ww2dbase [ShCh-307 | CPC]
- The trial against Albert Forster ended. ww2dbase [Albert Forster | CPC]
- Former Japanese destroyer Yukikaze was commissioned into the Navy of the Republic of China as Tang Yan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
- The town of Ota in Gunma Prefecture, Japan gained city status. ww2dbase [CPC]
United States
- USS Chub departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Chub | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
- VF-17 became the first US Navy squadron to be qualified to fly jets from an aircraft carrier. Three days of operations aboard the USS Saipan saw the squadron's pilots checked out on a minimum of eight take-offs and landings each. ww2dbase [AC]
- German prisoner of war Georg Jantschi made a unsuccessful suicide attempt while in Soviet captivity at the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Lefortovo Prison | Moscow | CPC]
- Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk prototype jet fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Former Burmese Prime Minister U Saw was hanged in Insein prison near Rangoon, Burma after his conviction for being complicit in the assassination of General Aung San. ww2dbase [AC]
- USS Chub arrived at Izmir, Turkey. ww2dbase [Chub | CPC]
Netherlands
- Queen Wilhelmina passed her monarchial duties to Princess Juliana due to health issues. ww2dbase [Wilhelmina | CPC]
- Chen Cheng was relieved from all of his military positions including his position as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ww2dbase [Chen Cheng | CPC]
- The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the Israeli Independence War, began. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Zhao Chengshou surrendered to the Chinese Communist forces at Jinzhong, Shanxi, China. ww2dbase [Zhao Chengshou | CPC]
Russia
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic leaders ordered all non-Russian-language village names in Krym (Crimea), Russia to be given Russian-language names. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
China
- Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the Chairman of the Nationalist Government and became the first Chinese president under the new Constitution of the Republic of China. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]
Greece
- Georgios Tsolakoglou passed away from leukemia while in captivity in Athens, Greece. ww2dbase [Georgios Tsolakoglou | Athens | CPC]
- Submarine Gür was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Chub | CPC]
Germany
- Theodor Morell passed away in a hospital in Tegernsee, Bavaria, West Germany. ww2dbase [Theodor Morell | Tegernsee | CPC]
China
- He Yingqin was transferred from the Office of the President of the Republic of China to the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
- Littorio was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Littorio | CPC]
China
- He Yingqin was named the Minister of Defense. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
- Newfoundland held a referendum to determine its future as an independent dominion, as a British colony, or as a part of Canada; the results were inconclusive. ww2dbase [CPC]
South Africa
- Jan Smuts stepped down as the Prime Minister of South Africa. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | CPC]
Germany
United States
- P-80C jet fighters were redesignated F-80C fighters in the United States Air Force. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]
China
- Xiao Yisu was named Deputy Minister of Defense. ww2dbase [Xiao Yisu | CPC]
- Sybil Kathigasu passed away in the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Sybil Kathigasu | CPC]
Kazakhstan
- Bauyrzhan Momyshuly was appointed by the Council of Minister of Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic as the chief of the Voluntary Society for Cooperation with the Armed Forces. ww2dbase [Bauyrzhan Momyshuly | Almaty | CPC]
- The trial by the Supreme National Tribunal against Josef Bühler began in Kraków, Poland. ww2dbase [Josef Bühler | CPC]
China
- Chen Lifu became the deputy head of the Legislative Yuan. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]
India
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was made the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, succeeding the Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten. Rajagopalachari was the last person to told this title. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | CPC]
China
Germany
- In Germany, the Berlin Blockade began. ww2dbase [Berlin | CPC]
- Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the sixth time. ww2dbase [Kliment Voroshilov | CPC]
United States
- Joseph Rochefort requested the high school he dropped out of back in 1918 to grant him a diploma based on Rochefort's cryptanalysis and language work in the US Navy. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]
United States
- Joseph Rochefort was granted a diploma by the high school he dropped out of in 1918. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]
- Ira Eaker was given the rank of lieutenant general in the retired list of the newly established United States Air Force. ww2dbase [Ira Eaker | CPC]
- George Brett was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general while on the retired list. ww2dbase [George Brett | CPC]
- Wisconsin was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Wisconsin | CPC]
- Avro York aircraft began participating in the Berlin Airlift. ww2dbase [York | AC]
- In Germany, the Berlin Air Lift began. ww2dbase [Berlin | CPC]
- The trial against Josef Bühler ended. ww2dbase [Josef Bühler | CPC]
- The National Health Service (NHS) was established in the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
United States
- Josef Bühler was found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland and was sentenced to death. ww2dbase [Josef Bühler | CPC]
- US General John Joseph Pershing died at the age of 88, honoured by most of the European nations as well as his own. His body rests at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [AC]
Newfoundland
- A referendum in Newfoundland showed 52% of the population in favor of a union with Canada. ww2dbase [CPC]
Korea
- Rhee Syngman was sworn in as the President of the Republic of Korea at the General Government Building in Seoul, Korea. ww2dbase [Keijo General Government Building | Seoul | CPC]
- Otto Skorzeny revealed to fellow prisoners that he was planning on escaping. ww2dbase [Otto Skorzeny | CPC]
- Otto Skorzeny escaped from captivity. ww2dbase [Otto Skorzeny | CPC]
- The upgraded M26 Pershing medium tanks were redesignated M26E2 Patton (later again redesignated M46). ww2dbase [M26 Pershing/M46 | CPC]
- In Great Britain the Criminal Justice Act abolished Penal Servitude, Hard Labour, Prison Divisions and Whipping as a form of corporal punishment (except in the case of mutiny, incitement to mutiny or treason). ww2dbase [AC]
- The battleship USS Nevada, having survived both sinking at Pearl Harbor and the Bikini Atoll atom bomb test, was finally destroyed as a target off US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Nevada | AC]
- German industrialist Alfried Krupp was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and the confiscation of his wealth. ww2dbase [Alfried Krupp | CPC]
- Dong Zhao was relieved of his duty as the commander of the 1st Corps. ww2dbase [Dong Zhao | CPC]
- Captain Wells Field was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | CPC]
Russia
- First flight of the Ilyushin Il-28, the Soviet Union's first jet powered bomber. It would be in frontline service within two years. ww2dbase [AC]
Japan
- The first American-authorized atomic bomb commemoration ceremony took place in Nagasaki, Japan. Colonel Victor Delnore, the commanding officer of the occupation government in the city, in a speech promised a partnership between Japan and the United States for rebuilding and for future peace. ww2dbase [Nagasaki | CPC]
- Submarine Skipjack was sunk as a target off southern California, United States. ww2dbase [Skipjack | CPC]
- HMS Valiant departed Devonport, England, United Kingdom for the Arnott Young ship breakers at Cairnryan, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Valiant | Devonport, England | CPC]
Korea
- The Republic of Korea was declared in Seoul with Syngman Rhee as its first president. The new republic only had control over the southern half of Korea but claimed sovereignty over the entire peninsula. ww2dbase [Seoul | CPC]
United States
- Chinese Ambassador to the United States V. K. "Wellington" Koo met with US Secretary of State George Marshall, urging him to accelerate the schedule for the delivery of military aid to Chinese Nationalists in the war against the Communists. ww2dbase [Wellington Koo | Washington | CPC]
Poland
- Josef Bühler was executed by hanging in Kraków, Poland at 1949 hours. ww2dbase [Josef Bühler | Kraków | CPC]
Hawaii
- USS Bugara arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Bugara | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Edvard Beneš passed away. ww2dbase [Edvard Beneš | CPC]
Netherlands
- Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the throne of the Netherlands due to health issues. ww2dbase [Wilhelmina | CPC]
United Kingdom
- A De Havilland DH 108 research aircraft exceeded Mach 1 in a dive to become the first supersonic British aircraft. ww2dbase [AC]
Korea
- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was declared in Pyongyang with Kim Il-sung as its first president. The new communist state only had control over the northern half of Korea but claimed sovereignty over the entire peninsula. ww2dbase [Pyongyang, South Pyongan | CPC]
United States
- USS Whale arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Whale | New London, Connecticut | CPC]
- Submarine Skipjack was struck from the US Naval Register. ww2dbase [Skipjack | CPC]
- Folke Bernadotte was killed by a radical Israeli gunman in Jerusalem of the newly-formed nation of Israel. ww2dbase [Folke Bernadotte | CPC]
- Jan Smuts was named the Colonel-in-chief of the Regiment Westelike Provinsie of South Africa. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | CPC]
United States
- USS Sterlet was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Sterlet | Vallejo, California | CPC]
- Mildred Gillars, known to the Americans as "Axis Sally", pled innocent to charges of treason. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Wei Lihuang met with Chiang Kaishek in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Nanjing | CPC]
United States
- Vi Kyuin "Wellington" Koo received a cable from US President Harry Truman expressing US support for China, which had just suffered a major defeat at the hands of the communists during the Chinese Civil War. ww2dbase [Wellington Koo | Washington | CPC]
Japan
- The incomplete landing ship No. 175 was scrapped. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
China
- In Mukden (Shenyang), Liaoning Province, China, Wei Lihuang was dismissed in person by Chiang Kaishek. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Mukden, Liaoning | CPC]
China
- Du Yuming arrived in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Du Yuming | Shenyang, Liaoning | CPC]
- Shigeru Yoshida became the 48th Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | CPC]
China
- Chinese communist forces captured Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Jinzhou, Liaoning | CPC]
Germany
- Walter Schreiber escaped from Soviet captivity in Dresden, Germany. ww2dbase [Walter Schreiber | Dresden | CPC]
Germany
- Walther von Brauchitsch passed away from bronchial pneumonia in the British Military Hospital in Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Walther von Brauchitsch | Hamburg | CPC]
- US Air Force cancelled orders for F-87A and RF-87A jet fighters. This would directly lead to Curtiss exiting the combat aircraft business. ww2dbase [CPC]
Germany
- Georg von Küchler was given a 20-year prison sentence for atrocities committed against captured Soviet partisan fighters. ww2dbase [Georg von Küchler | Nürnberg, Franken | CPC]
- The High Command Trial (The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al) ended in Nuremberg. 13 generals and 1 admiral of the German military were tried, many of them were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]
China
- Wei Lihuang departed Mukden (Shenyang), Liaoning Province, China by aircraft from Dongta Airfield at about 1500 hours. ww2dbase [Wei Lihuang | Mukden, Liaoning | CPC]
China
- Liu Yuzhang fled for Huludao, Liaoning Province, China via a transport ship. ww2dbase [Liu Yuzhang | Huludao, Liaoning | CPC]
China
- Chinese communist forces captured Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. ww2dbase [Shenyang, Liaoning | CPC]
China
- Du Yuming was assigned to the Xuzhou Anti-Communist Command based in Jiangsu Province, China. ww2dbase [Du Yuming | CPC]
United States
- Vi Kyuin "Wellington" Koo met with US Secretary of State Robert Lovett, seeking direct military aid for the Chinese Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War. Lovett rejected Koo's request. ww2dbase [Wellington Koo | Washington | CPC]
- Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death by hanging. ww2dbase [Hideki Tojo | CPC]
- Tokyo war crimes trials ended with eight war criminals sentenced to death and seventeen others to periods of imprisonment. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | AC]
- Yoshijiro Umezu was found guilty of waging a war of aggression and was given a life sentence. ww2dbase [Yoshijiro Umezu | Tokyo | CPC]
United Kingdom
- Prince Charles (later Prince of Wales) was born at Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]
Canada
- French-Canadian politician Louis St. Laurent was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada. ww2dbase [AC]
- The nationalised British Steel Industry was established in the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
Greece
- Alexandros Sakellariou stepped down as the Minister for Naval Affairs. ww2dbase [Alexandros Sakellariou | CPC]
- Iwane Matsui was sentenced to death by hanging. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | Tokyo | CPC]
United States
- USS Blackfin was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Blackfin | Vallejo, California | CPC]
- USS Gar arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, United States to serve as a training submarine for the 4th Naval District. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
- Rear Admiral Walden Ainsworth was elevated to the rank of Vice-Admiral and placed on the United States Navy's retired list in what was known as a "Tombstone Promotion." He made his retirement home at Wonalancet, New Hampshire. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | DS]
- Tang Enbo was made the commanding officer of the Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Garrison by Chiang Kaishek. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | Tang Enbo | CPC]
- USS Bergall began a tour of the Far East. ww2dbase [Bergall | CPC]
China
- He Yingqin stepped down from his position as the Minister of Defense. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
China
- He Yingqin was detached from the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | CPC]
- Chen Lifu stepped down as the deputy head of the Legislative Yuan and transferred to the Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]
Japan
- Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | CPC]
- Hideki Tojo was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hideki Tojo | Tokyo | CPC]
- Akira Muto was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Akira Muto | Tokyo | CPC]
- Koki Hirota was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Koki Hirota | Tokyo | CPC]
- Kenji Doihara was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Kenji Doihara | Tokyo | CPC]
- Seishiro Itagaki was executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Seishiro Itagaki | Tokyo | CPC]
- Iwane Matsui was executed by hanging at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | Tokyo | CPC]
China
- Du Yuming was named a war criminal by communist leader Mao Zedong. ww2dbase [Du Yuming | CPC]
China
- Chiang Kaishek met with Yan Xishan, Li Zongren, and Zhang Qun. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | Li Zongren | Yan Xishan | CPC]
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