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• US Coast Guard Lieutenant (jg) John Murchison relieved G. E. Oliver as the commanding officer of US Army ship FS-390. ww2dbase [CPC]

• In Kandy, Ceylon, Louis Mountbatten ordered British troops en route to Indonesia to be limited to key areas, thus avoiding the Indonesian-Dutch political tensions. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | Kandy | CPC]

• Rioting took place in Indonesia against the Dutch. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Chinese General Lu Han accepted the surrender of Japanese 38th Army at Hanoi, French Indochina. The French delegation boycotted the ceremony due to the Chinese-Vietnamese joint attempt to place the French delegation far from the main ceremonies during the planning process. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Lu Han | Hanoi, Tonkin | CPC]

• George Patton was summoned to Frankfurt, Germany by Dwight Eisenhower, who scolded him for repeatedly stirring up controversies and transferred him to the US 15th Army in the rear, which was tasked with compiling a history of the European War. ww2dbase [George Patton | Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau | CPC]

• USS Marcus Island arrived at Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Marcus Island | Okinawa | CPC]

• R-14 was sold to Rossoff Brothers of New York, New York, United States for scrapping. ww2dbase [R-14 | CPC]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay departed San Diego, California bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the first of her Magic Carpet runs to bring US servicemen back to the United States. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | San Diego, California | DS]

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