13 Sep 1945
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Australian New Guinea
- General Hatazo Adachi surrendered the remnants of his 18th Army to the Australians near Wewak in Australian Territory of New Guinea. Of his original force of 100,000 men, only 13,000 survived, sick and half starved after being abandoned without supplies for months. ww2dbase [Hatazo Adachi | Wewak | AC, CPC]
- Japanese forces in Burma surrendered to the Allies. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | TH, CPC]
- British Major General Douglas Gracey arrived at Tan Son Nhut airport, Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina, flanked by British, Gurkha, and Indian troops. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchina | CPC]
- US forces took control of Haneda Airfield in Tokyo, Japan and was renamed it Haneda Army Air Base. ww2dbase [Haneda Airfield | Tokyo | CPC]
- Chikahiko Koizumi committed ritual suicide in Yodobashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chikahiko Koizumi | Tokyo | CPC]
- At Ishinomaki Bay, USS Nicholas received aboard 250 recently freed Allied prisoners of war, 117 American, 85 Dutch, 38 Australian, and 10 British, and brought them to Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Nicholas | Ishinomaki Bay | DS]
- USS St. Louis arrived at Hagushi Beach anchorage, Okinawa. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Hagushi, Okinawa | DS]
- Japanese forces formally surrendered in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Kuala Lumpur, Selangor | CPC]
- Captain Hisayuki Soeda surrendered Nauru and Ocean Island surrendered to Australian troops. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | TH, CPC]
- Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu told Japanese Ambassador to Portugal Morito Morishima that the Japanese government was awaiting Allied instructions in regards to East Timor. ww2dbase [Lisbon | CPC]
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