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• Pierre Laval was executed for treason. ww2dbase [Pierre Laval | CPC]
• US Army ship FS-390 was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Du Yuming arrived at Chongqing, China, where Chiang told him that Du was to become the scapegoat for the removal of General Long Yun; Chiang would later award him with higher positions for taking on this responsibility. ww2dbase [Du Yuming | Chongqing | CPC]
• The Chinese Communist central committee ordered its central and northern forces to focus on stopping or slowing the Nationalist troops moving toward northern China. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The Pemuda PUSA organization in Aceh, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies took control of the Acehnese youth nationalist movement and declared support for Teungku Daud Beureu'eh's anti-Dutch judicial decision (fatwa). Daud Beureu'eh and three other prominent Islamic scholars had described the uprising against Dutch colonialism as a holy crusade (jihad fi sabilillah). ww2dbase [Aceh, Sumatra | CPC]
• Indonesian nationalist fighters clubbed and hacked 50 Europeans and Eurasians to death as they marched toward Kalisosok Prison in Surabaya, Java, Indonesia. After getting into the prison, with some of the guards turning their backs to allow the fighters to do whatever they wished, 200 Europeans being held there for protect were killed. ww2dbase [Surabaya, Java | CPC]

• Prince Ratanavongsa Phetsarath of Luang Phrabang formally accepted his dismissal as the Laotian Prime Minister, believing that the newly formed revolutionary government could succeed its anti-French goals without support from the king. ww2dbase [Ratanavongsa Phetsarath | Laos | CPC]
• The British Supreme Allied Commander in Cambodia, Lieutenant Colonel E. D. Murray arranged for a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Son Ngoc Thanh in the afternoon in Phnom Penh. It was an ambush. At Murray's headquarters, he and French General Philippe Leclerc oversaw the arrest of Thanh for being too nationalist for British and French comfort. Thanh was handled roughly and was not told why he was being detained during the process. Thanh's chauffeur, witnessing his employer being taken away by force, drove off and warned Thanh's colleagues who might also be on the British-French list of targets. Thanh and Leclerc would board a flight for Saigon, Cochinchina before the end of the day. ww2dbase [Philippe Leclerc | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | CPC]

• The Hadamar trial against the staff of the Hadamar Euthanasia Center in western Germany ended. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Hadamar Euthanasia Center | CPC]

• Joseph Stilwell stepped down as the commanding officer of 10th Army in Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Okinawa | CPC]
• The Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan was abolished in name, but the facilities would continue to operate under the control of the US Navy. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• The Malayan Union officially came into existence. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Maria Smirnova retired from the Soviet Air Force. ww2dbase [Maria Smirnova | CPC]
• Yevdokia Bershanskaya retired from the Soviet Air Force. ww2dbase [Yevdokia Bershanskaya | CPC]

• The Thai government arrested former Prime Minister Field Marshal Phibun Songkhram, former Foreign Minister Wichit Wichitwatankan, and others for war crimes. This was seen as a political move to appease the United States and the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Puffer arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Puffer | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• USS Iowa arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Iowa | Seattle, Washington | CPC]
• USS Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Wisconsin | San Francisco, California | CPC]
• USS Alabama arrived at San Francisco, California, United States at about 1200 hours. ww2dbase [Alabama | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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