Japan

Commodore Rodger W. Simpson, commander of Task Group 30.6, arrives in Tokyo Bay to evacuate Allied prisoners of war. Guided by TBM Averngers from small carrier Cowpens, he is taken by LCVPs to the camp at Omori. Prisoners are severely malnourished and suffering from a host of maladies.

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, arrives in Tokyo Bay on board a PB2Y Coronado and establishes battleship South Dakota as his flagship.

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

Halsey and Nimitz Aboard South Dakota

Japanese Doctors at Yokosuka Naval Hospital

Nimitz Arrives in Tokyo Bay

POWs at Aomori Prison Camp

Reading Victory News on New Guinea

Battleship IJN Nagato