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• Douglas MacArthur was ordered to exercise authority through the Japanese government, thus giving him authority over Emperor Showa. In this capacity, he would oversee the drafting a new constitution, redistribution of land, disbanding monopolistic Zaibatsu firms, among other major initiatives. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | CPC]
• Lieutenant Commander Carl Pfeifer became the commanding officer of USS Cassin Young. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | CPC]
• USS Charr departed Fremantle, Australia. ww2dbase [Charr | CPC]
• The United States stopped drafting citizens for the military. ww2dbase [CPC]
• A US B-29 bomber was shot down by the Soviets as it attempted to drop supplies to former POWs. ww2dbase [TH]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue departed Adak, Alaska bound for Seattle, Washington. ww2dbase [Bogue | Adak | DS]

• US Army Air Forces returned the control of Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China to the Chinese Air Force. ww2dbase [Xinjin Airfield | Chengdu, Sichuan | CPC]
• Chiang Kaishek appointed Chen Yi as the Governor General of Taiwan Province, Republic of China. ww2dbase [Chen Yi | CPC]

• USS Finback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Finback | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• US troops made an administrative landing near Tokyo, Japan, starting the occupation. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Tokyo | TH]
• USS Missouri entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Missouri | Tokyo Bay | CPC]
• Gregory Boyington was liberated from the Omori Prison Camp in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
• USS Ancon arrived at Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Ancon | Tokyo Bay | CPC]
• I-14 arrived at Sagami Bay west of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and was moored alongside USS Proteus. ww2dbase [I-14 | Sagami Bay, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Segundo halted Japanese submarine I-401 less than 200 miles southeast of Honshu island, Japan and escorted her toward Sagami Wan, Japan. ww2dbase [Segundo | CPC]

• Eight C-47 transport aircraft took off from Don Muang Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, carrying 150 former American prisoners of war. ww2dbase [Bangkok | CPC]

• The Four Power Commission of Prosecutors in London, England, United Kingdom presented the first list of German war criminals to be tried at Nürnberg, Germany. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | London, England | CPC]

• US President Harry Truman released the reports of the US Army and Navy Boards of Inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster. The Army Board placed blame primarily on the failure of Lieutenant General Walter Short for failing to alert his command. The US War Department also came in for criticism (for failing to keep the president's office informed of developments in negotiations between Japan and the United States) as does Secretary of State Cordell Hull (for delivering America's counter proposals on 26 Nov 1941, thereby preventing time for war preparations). The Navy Board's report blamed Admiral Husband Kimmel for not rotating the in-port periods of US warships in a less routine manner. ww2dbase [Harry Truman | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Washington | AC]

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