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• Hulbert was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Hulbert | CPC]
• S-23 was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [S-23 | CPC]
• S-46 was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [S-46 | CPC]

• USS St. Louis arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS DD-224 departed Kure, Japan for engine trials. ww2dbase [Stewart | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Lavrentiy Beria ordered Vsevolod Merkukov, Viktor Abakukov, and Sergei Kruglov to investigate a list of 105 important German prisoners of war for the possibility of placing them on public trial; the three would find that 85 of them could be tried. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]

• USS Mero completed her shakedown cruise and was placed in a floating drydock for transit down the Mississippi River. ww2dbase [Mero | CPC]
• USS Shamrock Bay arrived at San Diego, California, United States, bringing back US servicemen from Pacific bases. ww2dbase [Shamrock Bay | San Diego, California | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) stood out of San Francisco Bay, California, United States bound for Guam, Mariana Islands on a mission to return of American servicemen to the United States. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | San Francisco, California | DS]
• USS Kimberly departed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | CPC]

2 Nov 1945 Interactive Map