Truman ordered the bomb dropped on Japan. The news was conveyed to the military to accomplish the act.
The Potsdam Conference took a recess so that the British delegation could return to the UK to hear the election results.
Marshall Pétain spoke at his trial for the first time, stating he was deaf and had not heard a thing that had been said in court up to that time.
American cruisers Pasadena, Springfield, Wilkes-Barre and Astoria bombarded Japanese air bases in southern Honshu.
US aircraft attacked Kure naval base and the airfields at Nagoya, Osaka and Miho for a second day, sinking the battleships Hyuga, Ise, and Haruna, the escort carrier Kaiyo and the heavy cruisers Aoba and Iwate are all sunk. The Japanese put up no resistance.
The US declared that Mindanao was free of organized Japanese resistance.
The Japanese pulled out of Taunggyi in the Shan states, Burma.
British naval and air units continued attacks on Japanese positions and transportation targets on the west coast of Malaya.
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