China Chiang Kai-shek forbids Japanese forces to surrender to the Red Chinese and orders the latter to hold its positions. Mao disregards this.
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Diplomatic Relations A Japanese peace delegation arrives in Manila by air via Okinawa to confer directly with Gen Douglas A. MacArthur regarding details of the surrender. MacArthur was named on August 15 to the post of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the express purpose of negotiating and accepting the surrender.
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India, Home Front (18th?) Subhas Chandras Bose is fatally injured in a plane crast on Formosa. He was 48.
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Manchuria The 2nd Far East Front captures Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain. Trans-Baikal Front tanks race toward the town from the west, despite pockets of fanatical Japanese troops. Russian units link up with Chinese Communist forces.
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Images from August 19, 1945
Japanese military and civilian envoys wait to board a USAAF C-54 aircraft at Ie Shima airfield, Ryukyu Islands, 19 August 1945. The delegation had come to Ie Shima from Japan in specially-marked aircraft, en route to General MacArthur’s headquarters in Manila to receive instructions concerning surrender and occupation arrangements. The officer in the center foreground is the delegation’s head, Lieutenant General Torashiro Kawabe, deputy chief of the Japanese Army general staff. (Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center)
Japanese Delegation at Ie Shima
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One of two specially-marked (white overall, with green crosses) Mitsubishi G4M-1 ('Betty') aircraft on an airfield on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 19 August 1945. The plane brought Japanese envoys who were transferred to a USAAF C-54 and flown to Manila, where they received instructions concerning the surrender and occupation. Note crowd of onlookers, and armed guards protecting the Japanese plane.
Japanese Delegation at Ie Shima
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Mitsubishi G4M and G6M at Ie Shima, 19 August 1945
Mitsubishi G4M and G6M
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