19 Dec 1945
- McFarland was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [McFarland | CPC]
- Engstrom was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Engstrom | CPC]
- Free French fighter ace Jean Demozay returning from a trip to London, England, United Kingdom was killed when his aircraft crashed near Buc, France. ww2dbase [Buc, Île-de-France | AC]
- I-400 arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [I-400 | CPC]
- I-401 arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [I-401 | CPC]
- I-14 arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam at 0911 hours. ww2dbase [I-14 | Apra Harbor | CPC]
- 300 Japanese American residents of Hawai'i were returned to Hawai'i after having been interned in camps in the continental United States. ww2dbase [Internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians | DS]
- Shigeru Yoshida was made a member of the House of Peers of the Japanese Diet. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | CPC]
- The traitor Jon Amery, founder of Heinrich Himmler's British Free Corps, convicted of High Treason, was executed at Wandsworth Prison, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

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