22 Feb 1946
Hawaii
Hawaii
- USS Mero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Mero | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- General Seishiro Itagaki formally surrendered the Japanese Seventh Area Army to Lieutenant General F. W. Messervy at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaya. ww2dbase [Seishiro Itagaki | Kuala Lumpur, Selangor | CPC]

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