Diary August 15, 1945

War Diary, 08-1945, Diary WW2, Year 1945 / 1 minute of reading

F6F comes in to USS Yorktown — An F6F Hellcat comes in to carrier USS Yorktown.

Diary for Wednesday, August 15, 1945:

Home Fronts

Britain and USA: VJ-DAY (‘Victory over Japan’). National holiday in Britain. King opens new British Parliament.
Japan: EMPEROR HIROHITO BROADCASTS to Japanese people news of surrender which has been necessitated by the fact that ‘the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage’. MacArthur orders Japan to cease hostilities and sends representatives to Manila.

Sea War

Pacific: TF 38 launches massive air strikes on Tokyo area, which lead to numerous encounters with Japanese fighters; but strike planes are precipitately withdrawn upon receipt of surrender announcement.

Air War

Pacific: Vice-Admiral Ugaki, commander of Kamikaze operations, leads final Kamikaze mission, but his 7 dive-bombers are shot down by US fighters off Tokyo before they can reach Okinawa.

Politics

Treaty of Friendship between Nationalist China and USSR.

About The Author

Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.