11 Oct 1945
China

- US Marines landed on the southern coast of Shandong Province, China to slow the Chinese Communist advance. ww2dbase [Shandong | CPC]
- Shyler Cammann and four other US Navy personnel became the first to depart Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) Camp Four in China. They would return to the US via Chongqing and then Shanghai. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Mao Zedong departed Chongqing. China for Yen'an, leaving Nationalist-Communist negotiations to his more capable lieutenant Zhou Enlai. ww2dbase [Chongqing | CPC]
- USS St. Louis departed Shanghai, China bound for Ningpo (now Ningbo) but was redirected while en route to Kiirun, Formosa (now Keelung, Taiwan). ww2dbase [St. Louis | Shanghai | DS]
- British Lieutenant Colonel E. D. Murray traveled from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Saigon, Cochinchina. Murray proposed the arrest of Prime Minister Son Ngoc Thanh of Cambodia, and the notion was supported by French General Philippe Leclerc. ww2dbase [Philippe Leclerc | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | CPC]
- USS Enterprise departed the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Enterprise | CPC]
- USS Ranger transited the Panama Canal and entered the Caribbean. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | Ranger | Panama Canal | DS]
- Submarine Pollack was struck from the US Naval Register. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]
- Submarine R-5 was struck from the US Naval Register. ww2dbase [R-5 | CPC]
- Escort carrier USS Bogue departed Alameda bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Bogue | Alameda, California | DS]


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