Diplomatic Relations The unconditional surrender of strong Japanese forces in the southwest Pacific is signed aboard the British carrier Glory off Rabaul.
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Occupied Germany Eisenhower lifts the Press censorship.
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United States, Home Front Vice-Adm John S. McCain, ex-commander of the US Navy's TF 58, dies of a heart attack at age 61.
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Images from September 6, 1945
Filipino residents of Cebu City welcome American soldiers in September 1945. (National Archives)
Cebu City Welcome American Soldiers
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Members of the old Fourth Regiment liberated from Japanese prison camp, Yokosuka, Japan, 6 September 1945. (Photograph by Connolly)
Liberation from Japanese POW Camp
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The war-ending surrender of the Japanese Southeastern Army at Rabaul aboad HMS Glory, 6 September 1945.
Japanese Southeastern Army Surrenders
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At the conference held in the captain's cabin. Left to right: Admiral Jin-Incha Kusaka, Commander Japanese S E Navy; General Imamura, General S E Japanese Army; Lieut General V A H Sturdee, GOC First Australian Army; Brigadier E L Sheehan, BGS, First Australian Army; and Captain Wass Buzzard, RN, discussing the immediate occupation of Rabaul by the 11th Australian Division.
Immediate Occupation of Rabaul
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