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• A Soviet code clerk defected to the US and revealed the extent of the Soviet spy network in the US. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The Japanese Navy 5th and 10th Air Fleets were officially disbanded. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Loyalty and Diligence. ww2dbase [Dong Zhao | CPC]
• George Brett stepped down as the chief of the US Caribbean Defense Command and the US Army's Panama Canal Department. ww2dbase [George Brett | CPC]

• US 68th Composite Wing departed Baishiyi Airfield near Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Baishiyi Airfield | Chongqing | CPC]
• Hiroshi Nemoto surrendered the Japanese North China Area Army at a ceremony at the Forbidden City in Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Hiroshi Nemoto | Beiping | CPC]
• On this National Day holiday, Chinese Nationalists and Communists issued a joint communiqué announcing the intention of peaceful national reconstruction. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US Navy arrived at Qingdao, Shandong Province, China and immediately began preparations for the transportation of Chinese forces to northern China and the transportation of Japanese troops to Japan. ww2dbase [Qingdao, Shandong | CPC]

• Indonesian forces took control of much of Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Nearby Japanese forces, not having officially surrendered yet, counterattacked and took back the city, preventing the nationalist groups from capturing a weapon factory. ww2dbase [Bandung, Java | CPC]
• British forces arrived in Belawan (near Medan) and Padang in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. Local Indonesian nationalist groups were alarmed. ww2dbase [Belawan, Palawan | CPC]

• In Laos in French Indochina, King Sisavangvong of Luang Phrabang dismissed Prime Minister Prince Ratanavongsa Phetsarath, as suggested by Charles De Gaulle; Prince Ratanavongsa Phetsarath would formally accept the dismissal on 15 Oct. Nationalists responded by forming a revolutionary government, which was intended to be led by the prince. ww2dbase [Laos | CPC]
• Major General Douglas Gracey ordered his troops to march into the northern suburbs of Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina as a response to Viet Minh attacks on the previous night. Later in the day, Gracey and General Philippe Leclerc traveled to Singapore to attend an Allied conference; Gracey would receive additional reinforcements from Louis Mountbatten during the meeting, but he was also reminded that the preferred method for the situation in Saigon was to de-escalate via negotiations, not by force. ww2dbase [Philippe Leclerc | Saigon, Cochinchina | CPC]

• Japanese communist leaders Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga were freed after spending 18 years in Fuchu Prison in Tokyo, Japan. Before they were allowed outside the prison gate, they briefed the Allied General Headquarters on the party's plans in post war Japan. ww2dbase [Fuchu Prison | Tokyo | CPC]

• Lieutenant General John Hodge announced that the US military government was the only legitimate government in Korea south of the 38th Parallel. This was in response to similar claims by the Korean's People's Republic, which was formed in the previous month in an effort to counter the possibility of the division of Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Enterprise arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Enterprise | CPC]

• The British Colonial Secretary in Malaya provided the British House of Commons in London detailed plans for the Malayan Union. ww2dbase [London, England | CPC]

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