31 Dec 1946
- US President Harry Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in WW2. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Franz von Epp passed away. ww2dbase [Franz von Epp | CPC]
- The Manhattan Project was brought to a close. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | CPC]
- The US War Department announced that the Wakeman Hospital at Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana, United States would be declared surplus by the end of 1946. In the evening on the same day, Indiana Governor Ralph F. Gates announced that the state would take over the hospital as a mental hospital. ww2dbase [Camp Atterbury | Edinburgh, Indiana | CPC]
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