21 Jul 1945




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- The Allied leadership threatened Japan with destruction if it did not surrender. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | CPC]
- Allied leaders selected Nürnberg, Germany as the location for trials against accused German war criminals. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]
- Soviet submarine ShCh-411 was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Macabi reached waters near Truk, Caroline Islands as a lifeguard vessel. ww2dbase [Macabi | Truk | CPC]
- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill took the salute at a parade of the 7th Armoured Division through the Charlottenburger Chaussee in Berlin, Germany. This was a great honour to the "Desert Rats" who had fought all the way from El Alamein, Egypt to the German capital. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | Berlin | AC]
- 12 M26 Pershing heavy tanks arrived at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [M26 Pershing/M46 | Okinawa | CPC]
- I-400 departed Maizuru, Japan. ww2dbase [I-400 | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]
- I-401 departed Maizuru, Japan. ww2dbase [I-401 | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]
- USS Sea Robin fired a torpedo at a Japanese patrol boat in the East China Sea; the torpedo missed. Later in the same day, she sank two small tankers with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Sea Robin | East China Sea | CPC]




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