Burma

Japanese forces surrender at Rangoon. C-in-C Hyotaro Kimura surrenders October 24, 1945.

New Guinea

Lt-Gen Hataso Adachi of the Japanese 18th Army surrenders on Wom airfield, near Wewak.

Occupied Germany

The British military authorities publish a Gestapo 'deathlist' of 2,300 British and Allied notables, ranging from Churchill and the Chief Rabbi to Jacob Epstein, Noel Coward and leaders of the French, Polish and Czech governments-in-exile.

Images from September 13, 1945

Lt-Gen Hatazo Adachi symbolically surrendered his sword to Australian Maj-Gen H. C. H. Robertson at Wom Airstrip, New Guinea, 13 September 1945. (Australian War Memorial)

Japanese Surrender at New Guinea

Cape Wom, New Guinea. 13 September 1945. Signing of surrender documents by Lt-Gen) Hatazo Adachi, Commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea. After signing the unconditional surrender, Lt Gen Adachi is ordered to hand in his sword by the General Officer Commanding, 6th Division, Maj-Gen H. C. H. Robertson, at Wom airstrip.

Japanese Surrender at New Guinea

An Imperial Japanese naval officer surrenders his sword to a British lieutenant in Saigon, 13 September 1945

Japanese Surrender in Saigon

Sixty buses and ambulances await the arrival of the first 970 POWS returning aboard the USS Ozark. 13 Sep 1945

POWs Return