Occupied Germany

Göring, Ribbentrop and 22 other Nazi leaders are indicted as war criminals.

Singapore

Adm Lord Mountbatten receives the surrender of the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia, about 740,000 men. The document is signed by Gen Seishiro Itagaki.

United States, Home Front

Secret Army and Navy reports of the official inquiries into the Pearl Harbor Raid are made public, placing the blame on a lack of preparedness, confusion and a breakdown of interservice co-ordination. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Gen George Marshall, and Adm Harold Stark are all censured. Truman objects to the findings on Hull and Marshall.

Images from August 29, 1945

Admiral William F. Halsey, Commander, Third Fleet (right) Welcomes Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz aboard USS South Dakota (BB-57), in Tokyo Bay, 29 August 1945, after Nimitz flew in from Saipan. Both attended the Japanese surrender ceremonies on USS Missouri (BB-63) a few days later. (Credit: Naval Historical Center)

Halsey and Nimitz Aboard South Dakota

Japanese doctors at Yokosuka Naval Hospital, Japan, 29 August 1945

Japanese Doctors at Yokosuka Naval Hospital

The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, US Navy, Commander in Chief, Pacific, and Pacific Ocean Areas arrives at Tokyo Bay in a Consolidated PB2Y-5R Coronado seaplane, 29 August 1945. the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), Third Fleet Flagship, is in the center background.

Nimitz Arrives in Tokyo Bay

Prisoners of war cheering their US Navy rescuers at the Aomori prison camp, near Yokohama, Japan, 29 August 1945.

POWs at Aomori Prison Camp

Wewak Point, New Guinea. Some members of No. 8 platoon, A Company, 2/8 Infantry Battalion, reading victory news and viewing the celebration pictures from home, 29 August 1945

Reading Victory News on New Guinea

Japanese Battleship IJN Nagato off Yokosuka Naval Base, 29 August 1945.

Battleship IJN Nagato