Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Wednesday, August 19, 1945. Bataan I and Bataan 2.

Japanese officials arrived in Manila to conclude the surrender there.  They flew in two Mitsubishi G6M1- with green crosses rather than Japanese roundels.

Bataan 1 and Bataan 2 on Ie Shima., where they stopped for refueling.

The planes were assigned the flight names Bataan 1 and Bataan 2.

The Red Army kept on with its war against Japan, landing at Maoka on South Sakhalin. 

Chiang Kai-shek forbid Japanese forces from surrendering to the Red Chinese forces and demanded of the Communists that they not advance.

The Chinese Communist prevailed at Yongjiazhen.  1300 Warlord/Nationalist and twentyone Japanese troops were killed on the Nationalist side.. Ninety-eight Nationalist troops and twenty-one Japanese troops were captured.

The Red Army took Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain and linked up with Chinese Communist forces in the region.

Last edition:

Saturday, August 18, 1945. The last American KIA of World War Two. Anthony J. Marchione.

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