China
Communists and Nationalists struggle for control in China as Nationalist Kuomintang troops enter Shanghai and Nanking. The Communist leader Mao Tse-tung refuses to visit Chungking for discussions with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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]Japan, Home Front
Radio Tokyo reports 'groups are committing hara-kiri before the Imperial Palace in large numbers.'
US carrier aircraft begin uncontested flights over Japan, monitoring the surrender of Japanese military facilities and also locating and supplying Allies prisoners of war formerly held in Japanese camps.
[]Occupied Germany
British forces in western Europe are redesignated 'British Army of the Rhine' (BAOR).
[ | ]Philippines
Gen Yamashita informs the commander of the US 32nd Div that he has ordered all Japanese troops in the Philippines to lay down their arms.
[ | ]Sakhalin
Operations end as the Russians complete their occupation of the island.
[]United States, Home Front
Vice-Adm Willis A Lee, Jr ('Ching' Lee) dies of a heart attack at age 56.
[ | ]Images from August 25, 1945
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