28 Jun 1946
- USS Puffer was decommissioned from service, but would be periodically used to train personnel of the US Navy Reserve. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
- Hans Fritzsche denied all accusations against him while in court in Nürnberg, Germany. When Roman Rudenko reminded him that he had previously signed a confession, Fritzsche told the court that he had been forced to sign it. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Nürnberg, Franken | CPC]
- Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bockscar that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, retired from the United States Army. ww2dbase [Charles Sweeney | CPC]
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