4 Sep 1945



- RAF aircraft dropped fresh uniforms and 88,000 Red Cross parcels on prisoners of war camps throughout the South East Asia region. ww2dbase [AC]
- Japanese troops on Wake Island surrendered. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | TH]
- Seishiro Itagaki surrendered to Allied troops in Singapore. ww2dbase [Seishiro Itagaki | CPC]
- Captain James A. Jordan was made the commanding officer of USS Proteus, replacing Captain Charles Day. ww2dbase [Proteus | CPC]
- USS Bailey departed Manila Bay escorting a convoy bound for Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
- At Kandy, Ceylon, Thai negotiators rejected Louis Mountbatten's demand for Thailand to sign an interim military agreement. Thailand, as support by the United States, argued that the 21-point military agreement was political in nature. ww2dbase [Kandy | CPC]
- Dai Li, with Chiang Kaishek's support, dissolved the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) as its mission had been concluded successfully. ww2dbase [Dai Li | CPC]
- Milton Miles arrived in Shanghai, China by aircraft to prepared for the arrival of the US Navy 7th Fleet. ww2dbase [Milton Miles | Shanghai | CPC]
- An Office of Strategic Services team led by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Dewey arrived in Saigon, French Indochina to begin investigating war crimes and to collect intelligence. Dewey was immediately contacted, by letter, by member of the Republic of Vietnam to seek US support for the Vietnamese independence movement. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchina | CPC]
- Formal Japanese surrender of Malaya took place aboard HMS Nelson off Penang, Malaya. SEAC ordered Japanese personnel in the region to treat Malapan People's Anti-Japanese Army guerrilla fighters as if they were Allied troops. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Penang | CPC]
- The Soviet State Defense Committee, GKO, was disbanded. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Kamoi departed Pulau Bukom, Singapore and returned to the main Singapore port. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
- HMS Cumberland arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Cumberland | Singapore | DS]
- Escort carrier USS Bogue departed Seattle, Washington bound for Alameda, California. ww2dbase [Bogue | Seattle, Washington | DS]




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