" Pfc. Elmer S. Pitlik, Air Sect., 139th F.A. Bn., lights a cigarette for one of the Japanese guards. 22 August, 1945. On a mountain top in the Sierre Madres, Northern Luzon, eight Japanese officers and five American officers met to discuss surrender arrangements. The American officers, accompanied by twenty enlisted men, made a two-hour march over difficult terrain to the area marked by a Jap flag on a bamboo pole. Ranking American officer was Maj. Richard F. Jaffers, Artillery Liaison Group, 38th Inf. Div. The ranking Jap officer was Lt. Col. Shizume Sushimi. Photographer: T/4 Reynolds."
The Japanese Kwantung Army surrenders to Soviet forces at Harbin.
The Japanese government announced that the People's Volunteer Corps was disbanded.
The Japanese garrison on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands surrendered in the first instance of a a Japanese mass surrender.
"Romanian displaced persons on their way home. Most of them are Jews who have been imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Although tried and hungry, they make this 100 mile march to the Vienna station with little food or sleep. 22 August, 1945. Photographer: T/4 Carl Gulotta, 3131st Signal Service Co."
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