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• Mare Island Navy Yard opened in California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Vallejo, California | DS]

16 Sep 1854 Interactive Map

• Jeroom Gustaaf De Clercq was born in Everbeek, East Flanders, Belgium. ww2dbase [Staf De Clercq | Everbeek, East Flanders | CPC]

• Karl Dönitz was born. ww2dbase [Karl Dönitz | CPC]

• The United States navy finalized the purchase of 145 acres of land from the Bremer family of Washington, United States for a future shipyard. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

16 Sep 1891 Interactive Map

• Ernst Maisel was born. ww2dbase [Ernst Maisel | CPC]

• All German troops in the Bismarck Islands surrendered to the Australians. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Ivan Bagramyan volunteered for the Russian Army. ww2dbase [Ivan Bagramyan | CPC]

• Barney Hajiro was born in US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Barney Hajiro | CPC]

• The United States Navy denied Joseph Rochefort's request to transfer to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | CPC]

• The newspaper New York Times announced that US politician Franklin Roosevelt was suffering from poliomyelitis. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

• In the absence of Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, certain British Cabinet ministers issued a communiqué threatening the Ottoman Empire with a declaration of war by Britain and the Dominions (who, in fact, rejected becoming involved) on the grounds that the Ottoman Empire had violated the Treaty of Sèvres. ww2dbase [AC]

• The Invergordon Mutiny crisis passed when the British Admiralty promised to revise the proposed cuts. The mutiny caused such alarm on the exchange markets that the government was provoked into taking sterling off the gold standard. ww2dbase [AC]
• Kurt Fricke was named the commanding officer of 1st Torpedo Boat Flotilla. ww2dbase [Kurt Frike | CPC]

• Lutherans protested against the Nazi Party in Munich, Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Remy Van Lierde joined the Belgian Air Force. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]

• The Spanish Nationalists captured Ronda, Spain. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]

• Charles Hippolyte Noguès was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Marcel Peyrouton. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Horst Wessel was completed. ww2dbase [Horst Wessel | CPC]

• A TB-3-4AM-34FRN aircraft, piloted by A. B. Yumashev, broke the payload-to-altitude record by carrying a 10,000-kilogram load to the altitude of 6,605 meters. ww2dbase [TB-3 | CPC]

• Japanese troops captured the city of Shang, Hubei Province, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuhan | Shang, Hubei | CPC]

• The forerunner of the modern day Volkswagen car company was renamed to Volkswagenwerk GmbH. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Neville Chamberlain departed Germany and returned to London, England, United Kingdom. In the evening, he held a cabinet meeting to discuss the German demands on Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Munich Conference and the Annexation of Sudetenland | London, England | CPC]

• In the first German submarine attack on an Atlantic convoy the merchantman Aviemore was sunk off Land's End, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | AC]
• U-27 attacked British trawler Rudyard Kipling 190 kilometers (120 miles or 100 nautical miles) west of Ireland at 0353 hours. The crew of U-27 boarded Rudyard Kipling and destroyed the ship with scuttling charges. U-27 rescued the survivors, gave them food and warm clothing, and sent them off in lifeboats. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | U-27 | CPC]

• M18 was launched by OderWerke in Stettin, Pommern, Germany. ww2dbase [Oderwerke AG | M18 | Stettin, Pommern | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci was launched by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico (CRDA) at Monfalcone, Italy. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | Friuli Venezia Giulia | CPC]

• Polish troops counterattacked, destroying 22 tanks of Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" regiment. Elsewhere in Poland, German troops captured Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus). In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed that the Soviet Union would enter the war with the reason of protection of Ukrainians and Byelorussians; Germany complained that it singled out Germany as the lone aggressor. ww2dbase [Invasion of Poland | CPC]
• Polish general Józef Kustron was killed in the village of Ulazow, Poland; he was the second general-rank officer to be killed in action during the European War. ww2dbase [Ulazow | CPC]

16 Sep 1939 Interactive Map

• US Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act. ww2dbase [TH]
• Battleship Bismarck entered the Kiel Canal. ww2dbase [Bismarck | CPC]
• Italian troops of the 1st Blackshirt Division "23 Marzo" captured Sidi Barrani, Egypt and stopped the advance due to supply problems. This would prove to be the farthest the Italians would go. ww2dbase [Invasion of Egypt | CPC]
• British bombers attacked German invasion barges in French ports along the English Channel, interrupting an amphibious training exercise and causing many casualties. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-99 sank Norwegian ship Lotos north of Ireland at 0241 hours; the entire crew of 17 survived in two lifeboats. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]
• German bombers damaged British troop ship Aska in the Irish Sea, kill 11 British crew and 19 French soldiers. ww2dbase [CPC]
• French ship Poitiers, sailing from Libreville, French Equatorial Africa to Dakar, was intercepted by British cruiser HMS Cumberland. After taking the entire crew aboard, HMS Cumberland sank Poitiers by gunfire. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The presence of German troops in Finland, despite the fact that they were ultimately destined for Norway, alarmed the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [CPC]
• HMS Cumberland intercepted French mercantile Poitiers on passage to Ivory Coast. ww2dbase [Cumberland | DS]

• Communist Chinese New 4th Army captured Jiangyan (now a district of Taizhou), Jiangsu Province, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Huangqiao | Jiangyan, Jiangsu | CPC]

• At 0730 hours, more than 100 German Bf 109 fighters made a raid on Kent, England, United Kingdom to draw British fighters, which never rose to meet them. Overnight, German bombers attacked London, Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, Birmingham, and Bristol. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | England | CPC]
• Georges Boris made a broadcast over the BBC from the United Kingdom to the French people, asking them to bear with the British blockade of France, for that hunger suffered now would lead to an eventual French victory against the Germans. He also spoke of the German actions to deprive France of its food and other goods, which was the true cause of the shortages, citing Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf as evidence of the underlying philosophy of the German occupation. ww2dbase [CPC]

• 5 PBM Mariner aircraft and 1 PBY Catalina aircraft received radar to help these American aircraft conduct their neutrality patrols. ww2dbase [PBM Mariner | United States Neutrality Patrol | CPC]
• The German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot[orized]) successfully cut off the Soviet 8th Army in the Oranienbaum Pocket southwest of Leningrad, Russia after two days of fighting. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | CPC]
• German submarine U-98 sank British ship Jedmoor of Allied convoy SC-42 100 miles northwest of Isle of Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom at 2316 hours; 31 were killed, 5 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Italian submarine Smeraldo sank in the Mediterranean Sea to unknown cause, killing all 45 aboard. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Without authorization, Hans-Joachim Marseille flew over an Australian airfield in Libya, amidst anti-aircraft fire, to deliver a message that pilot Lieutenant Pat Byers, whom he shot down two days prior, was being treated at a German hospital in Libya. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | CPC]

• Emden was attacked by Soviet coastal batteries based on the island of Hiiumaa, Estonia as well as four torpedo boats; the Soviets failed to cause any damage. ww2dbase [Emden | Hiiumaa | CPC]

• USS New Mexico arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Reykjavik | CPC]

• German Generals Guderian and Kleist's Panzergruppen linked up east of Kiev, Ukraine, encircling 5 Soviet Armies. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Kiev | TH]
• German troops massacred Jews en masse in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vinnitsa | CPC]
• Romanian troops captured the heights northwest of Gross-Liebenthal district of Odessa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Siege of Odessa | Odessa | CPC]

• British destroyer HMS Impulsive (escorting Allied convoy PQ-18) sank U-457 with depth charges 200 miels northeast of Murmansk, Russia, killing all 45 aboard. Later in the day, some of the warships escorting PQ-18 transferred to convoy sailing in the opposite direction QP-14. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]
• Jürgen Stroop was promoted to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer. ww2dbase [Jürgen Stroop | CPC]
• Clifton Cates was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general. ww2dbase [Clifton Cates | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• USS S-28 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [S-28 | Unalaska | CPC]
• US bombers from the newly-completed airfield at Adak, Aleutian Islands attacked Japanese positions on Kiska, damaging Japanese transport Nojima Maru at 0437 hours. ww2dbase [Kiska | CPC]
• USS St. Louis arrived at Adak Island and departed the same day in company with USS Honolulu to rendezvous with a tanker bound for Adak. ww2dbase [Honolulu | St. Louis | Adak | DS]

• German submarine U-558 sank US ship Commercial Trader 75 miles east of Trinidad at 1100 hours; 10 were killed, 28 survived. British tanker F. J. Wolfe and British ship Empire Soldier, members of Allied convoy ON-127, collided 25 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland; Empire Soldier would sink from damages sustained in this collision. At 1200 hours, U-165 attacked Allied convoy SQ-36 at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River 10 miles northwest of Cap-Chat, Canada, sinking Greek ship Joannis, damaging British ship Essex Lance (1 was killed), and damaging British ship Pan York. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | AC, CPC]
• At 1125 hours, a US B-24 Liberator bomber based in Ascension Island spotted the 4 Axis submarines rescuing survivors of British troopship Laconia; despite the crew's observation of red cross flags, US Captain Robert Richardson III ordered the bomber to attack the submarines; the attack commenced at 1232 hours, and the submarines were forced to abandon the lifeboats they were towing and dive under the surface. ww2dbase [Laconia Incident | CPC]
• Alpino Bagnolini sighted an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 1458 hours and then again at 1640 hours; she submerged on both occasions to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]
• Comandante Cappellini sighted her first lifeboat from British troop ship Laconia in the Atlantic Ocean at 0828 hours. Laconia, carrying many Italian prisoners of war, had been sunk by U-156. This lifeboat carried 50 British survivors, which appeared to be stocked with ample food and water, thus the Italian submarine moved on. At 1032 hours, she sighted a second lifeboat, carrying 84 British surivors (41 men, 18 women, and 25 children); the Italian commanding officer Marco Revedin spoke to the suvivors of the second lifeboat and purposed to take on the women and children, but the British survivors refused to board the Italian submarine, so the Italians moved on after providing them with some provisions. At 1653 hours, Comandante Cappellini sighted four more lifeboats, two of which were overloaded and were taking on water; Comandante Cappellini took on 49 of the 50 Italian survivors (one confused Italian refused to board and was left behind). Shortly after, 19 British and Polish survivors were spotted in the water, and they were also picked up. ww2dbase [Laconia Incident | Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Australian troops pulled back from the Ioribaiwa Ridge along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua, 25 miles north of Port Moresby in preparation for a counterattack. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Port Moresby | CPC]

• USAAF 57th Fighter Group, flying P-40 fighters, began arriving at the Landing Ground 174 airfield east of El Alamein, Egypt. ww2dbase [El Alamein | CPC]

• 369 British bombers attacked the Ruhr industrial region of Germany, damaging buildings in Essen (damaging a Krupp factory in Essen; 47 civilians killed), Bochum, Wuppertal, Heme, and Cochem; 39 bombers were lost during this night. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Permanent Officer-of-the-Day watch established ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese submarine I-29 sank British ship Ocean Honour in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden; 20 were killed, 33 survived. ww2dbase [Raids into the Indian Ocean | Gulf of Aden | CPC]

• Eduard Neumann informed Hans-Joachim Marseille that he had submitted the paperwork to promote him to the rank of Hauptmann. Later in the day, Erwin Rommel personally congratulated Marseille over the phone for having become the youngest Luftwaffe Hauptmann; Rommel also invited him to join him for dinner. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | CPC]

• USS Juneau arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides and disembarked survivors of USS Wasp. ww2dbase [Juneau | Espiritu Santo | CPC]

• The 39 survivors of Norwegian tanker Sveve, a victom of German submarine U-96 on 10 Sep 1942, were dropped off in St. John's, Newfoundland. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | St. John's | HM]

• USS Nicholas crossed the 180th meridian and was detached from the USS Washington task group to proceed independently to Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Line Crossing Ceremony | Washington | Nicholas | DS]

• The Soviet NKVD rifle battalion stationed on Mamayev Kurgan hill in Stalingrad, Russia continued to fight off German attempts to take this high point. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]
• German 502nd Tank Battalion, stationed near Leningrad, Russia, received the first batch of Tiger I tanks. ww2dbase [PzKpfw VI Ausf. E 'Tiger I' | Leningrad | CPC]

• The United States Marine Corps established the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Elliott, California, United States. ww2dbase [San Diego, California | CPC]

16 Sep 1942 Interactive Map

• USS S-28 transited Mushiru Kaikyo in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]
• Leros Island in the Aegean Sea was captured by British troops. ww2dbase [Dodecanese Campaign | TH]
• Yugoslavian partisans captured Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [TH]
• Soviet naval infantry captured Novorossiysk, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
• Otto Skorzeny was awarded the Gold Flying Badge by Hermann Göring at Wolf's Lair, East Prussia, Germany. Upon receiving the award, he requested the Knight's Cross to be awarded to his men Captain Gerlach and Lieutenant Meyer. ww2dbase [Otto Skorzeny | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler, Otto Skorzeny, Ambassador Hewel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hitler's secretaries Fräulein Wolf and Frau Traudl Jung had midnight tea between 0000 and 0100 hours. Hitler said during tea that "Germany must be cleaned up after the war. We will draw our coming men from the fighting soldiers, but traitors must be rooted out now. Don't forget how Clemenceau dealt with the enemy within in 1914. he ruthlessly rounded them up and had them shot, thereby saving France. We must get rid of deserters and mutineers behind the front. Traitors always work on the same lines - to let the enemy in by the back door." ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]
• Minesweeper USS Armada was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Nicholas and the two merchant ships she was escorting arrived at Townsville, Australia briefly before Nicholas departed again proceeding independently toward Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• USS S-44 arrived at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, US Territory of Alaska. ww2dbase [S-44 | Unalaska | CPC]

• Gregory Boyington led 24 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 from Banika, Russell Islands to join 80 other aircraft of other squadrons to attack Ballale fighter base southeast of Bougainville island. 40 A6M fighters rose to defend the base. The Americans were credited with 17 Japanese aircraft shot down and 9 probables (VMF-214 alone was awarded 11 (5 of which were Boyington's) and 8, respectively), but lost pilot Bob Ewing in the action. Post-war Japanese records would reveal that only 6 aircraft were shot down in battle that day, with a further 1 aircraft written off due to heavy damage. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Banika, Russell Islands | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for cable layer Osei Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Julius Ritter, aide to the Labor Minister Fritz Sauckel, was shot in Paris, France; 50 French would be executed in reprisal. ww2dbase [Paris | TH]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the port facilities at Nantes, France. ww2dbase [Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Nantes | DS]

• USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pollack | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Bernard Montgomery's British 5th Infantry Division reached Sapri, less than 100 kilometers from Salerno, Italy. Heinrich von Vietinghoff recommended Albert Kesselring to break off the offensive in the Salerno area, fall back, and form a defensive line, but meanwhile the German troops attempted to attack positions held by troops of British X Corps near Salerno, making little progress. At Salerno, about 600 men of the British X Corps mutinied when informed that they were to be assigned to new units as replacements. To the north, after sundown, British 10th Parachute Battalion and 156th Parachute Battalion captured Gioia. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Salerno, Campania | TH, AC]
• USS Ancon departed Salerno, Italy and arrived in Palermo, Italy. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Ancon | Salerno, Campania | CPC]

• After making repairs following a depth charge attack four days earlier, submarine USS Spearfish located a Japanese convoy of seven freighters and three escorts departing the Bungo Channel. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Bungo Suido | DS]

• USS Haddock fired 6 torpedoes on transport Samsei Maru in the Pacific Ocean, damaging her with 1 hit. The damaged ship turned and attempted to ram Haddock, forcing the submarine to submerge and flee. ww2dbase [Haddock | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini arrived at Singapore. A squad of Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces troops boarded the submarine in case the Italian crew from scuttling the boat. Most of the Italian crew members were detained and later transferred to the Sime Road prisoners of war camp, while four were allowed to continue working on the submarine. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]

• The keel of submarine Chub was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Electric Boat Company | Chub | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]

• At Osekovo, Croatia, Yogoslavia, an SS unit of eighty men was attacked by partisans and forced to withdraw. With four badly wounded and several lightly wounded the unit commander telephoned his superior officer in Popovaca to proudly report that as it had been impossible to distinguish between the local population and the partisans he had personally murdered one hundred. ww2dbase [Osekovo, Croatia | AC]

16 Sep 1943 Interactive Map

• British troops landed unopposed on the island of Kythera in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. ww2dbase [TH]
• A speech by Goebbels called for resistance by all Germans with utmost fanaticism. ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | TH]
• US 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion captured Simpelveld in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Roza Shanina was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd Class. ww2dbase [Roza Shanina | CPC]

• Soviet troops entered Sofia, Bulgaria. ww2dbase [Bulgaria Switched Sides | Sofia | TH]

• USS Nicholas arrived at Morotai, Maluku Islands in support of the landings that took place the previous day. ww2dbase [Battle of Morotai | Nicholas | Morotai, Maluku | DS]

• Destroyers Z28 and Z36 escorted the passenger ship Monte Rosa, with refugees aboard, from Paldiski (German: Baltisch-Port), Estonia to Gotenhafen, Germany (occupied Gdynia, Poland). ww2dbase [Z28 | Z36 | Paldiski | CPC]

• Anglo-Indian troops began crossing the Manipur River in India toward Burma. ww2dbase [Assam | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 140 was launched at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | No. 101/103-class | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 141 was launched at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan.,Nagasaki, ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | No. 101/103-class | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 159 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• 13 He III bombers of I/KG53 of the German Air Force from Varelbusch, near Bremen, Germany took off to launch V-1 flying bombs, one crashed and exploded on take off killing the crew. 3 of the aircraft were intercepted and shot down over the sea. Royal Naval gunners hitting 2 and the other by a Mosquito aircraft of 96 Squadron flown by Lieutenant Ian Dobie. As they crossed the British coast 2 more were shot down by a Tempest aircraft flown by Flight Officer Bud Miller USAAF of 501 Squadron. Of the bombs launched, one hit a water tower at Saffron Walden, a market town in Essex. The tower was at the end of the runway of nearby Debden airfield and shook the men of 4th Fighter Group billet there. General Sir Fredrick Pile in charge of Britain's anti-aircraft defences noted that after an interval the attacks were being stepped up and he was having trouble shifting the guns into places where they could combat the bombs being launched by aircraft. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Debden, England | HM]

• Saint Paul was launched at Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, sponsored by the wife of John J. McDonough. ww2dbase [Saint Paul | Quincy, Massachusetts | CPC]

• Soviet troops, Bulgarian troops, and Yugoslavian partisans defeated Chetnik fighters and Serbian Frontier Guards and captured Vlasotince, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Vlasotince, Serbia | CPC]

16 Sep 1944 Interactive Map

• The US coastal minesweepers YMS-98 and YMS-341 were sunk off Okinawa, Japan during a typhoon. ww2dbase [AC]

• Four surviving Japanese aircraft (three A6M and one Ki-46) at Rabaul, New Britain were flown to the Australian airfield at Jacquinot Bay in southeastern New Britain. ww2dbase [Jacquinot Bay, New Britain | CPC]

• In Shanghai, China, after being overworked, recovering from malaria (and at times overdosing on Atabrine), and taking too much Benzedrine and sleeping pills to help him work and rest, Milton Miles began showing signs of psychosis. On this date, he met with newly arrived Thomas Kinkaid in Shanghai, China; Kinkaid described Miles as suffering from "war shock". ww2dbase [Milton Miles | Shanghai | CPC]
• Mongolian separatist leader Choibalsan visited Sonid, Suiyuan Province, China and met with the leaders of the separatists who had declared the People's Republic of South Mongolia six days prior. ww2dbase [Choibalsan | Sonid, Suiyuan | CPC]

• The Viet Minh began the two-week long Gold Week fundraising event in northern French Indochina during which patriotic citizens donated jewelry, gold leaf, and other previous items to the Viet Minh, which had been burdened with feeding the Chinese occupation force in Tonkin. ww2dbase [Tonkin | CPC]

• USS Menhaden arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Menhaden | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• Escort carrier USS Bogue arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Bogue | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Japanese troops surrendered in Hong Kong at the Government House. Royal Navy Rear Admiral Cecil Harcourt represented the United Kingdom, and Navy Vice Admiral Ruitaro Fujita and Army Major General Umekichi Okada represented Japan. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | AC, CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) entered Tokyo Bay with TG 38.1. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
• USS Shangri-La entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Shangri-La | Tokyo Bay | CPC]
• USS St. Louis departed Okinawa due to an approaching typhoon. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Hagushi, Okinawa | DS]

• In Korea, Lieutenant General John Hodge continued to refuse recognizing the leftist Korean People's Republic as a legitimate government. Interpreting this as a hint that Hodge, and in turn the United States, was concerned with Korean People's Republic communist elements, stern anti-Communist Song Chinu founded a new rightist party, Korean Democratic Party. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Sterlet arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Sterlet | San Diego, California | CPC]

16 Sep 1945 Interactive Map

16 Sep 1946 Interactive Map

• The remains of Jan Smuts were cremated in Pretoria, South Africa and were later scattered on his family farm in Irene, South Africa. ww2dbase [Jan Smuts | Irene, Transvaal | CPC]

16 Sep 1950 Interactive Map

• USS Cassin Young joined the US Navy 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | CPC]

• USS Wasp departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Norfolk, Virginia | CPC]

• The nation of Malaysia was declared out of the already independent Federation of Malaya. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Trepang was sunk as a target during the exercise Strike Ex 4-69 by destroyers USS Henderson and USS Fechtler. ww2dbase [Trepang | CPC]

• Agnes Driscoll passed away in Fairfax, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Agnes Meyer Driscoll | Fairfax, Virginia | CPC]

• George Bush stepped down as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, a position within his political party. ww2dbase [George Bush | CPC]

• Yevdokia Bershanskaya passed away from a heart attack in Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Yevdokia Bershanskaya | Moscow | CPC]

• ROCS An Yang was decommissioned from serivce. ww2dbase [Kimberly | CPC]

• Hélène Adams passed away in New York, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Hélène Deschamps | New York | CPC]