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• Former Allied prisoners of war in mainland China were air-dropped supplies. ww2dbase [TH]
• Soviet forces occupied the Kurile Islands north of Japan and took the first of what would become 63,000 prisoners of war. ww2dbase [AC]
• Vice Admiral Sadayoshi Yamada was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet, with Captain Chihaya Takahashi as his chief of staff. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Soviet 25th Army arrived in Pyongyang and met with Cho Man-sik and other communist leaders. Soviets appointed Cho as leader of the interim administration of the five northern Korean provinces. ww2dbase [Pyongyang | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 arrived. Air Group 13 departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Hong Kong Colonial Secretary Franklin Gimson established an office in the Central District. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Ho Chi Minh arrived in Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina for the first time. He invited US OSS Major Archimedes Patti to lunch in an attempt to court US support for Vietnamese independence. ww2dbase [Hanoi, Tonkin | CPC]

• Zuikaku was removed from the Japanese Navy List. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | CPC]

• I-400 dumped all of her ammunition and Seiran aircraft overboard according to orders. ww2dbase [I-400 | CPC]
• I-401 dumped all of her ammunition and Seiran aircraft overboard according to orders. ww2dbase [I-401 | CPC]

• The Shirakawa Prisoners of War Camp in southern Taiwan was closed. ww2dbase [CPC]

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