Sgt. Herbert Lehr delivering the plutonium core for Fat Man in its shock-mounted case to the McDonald Ranch assembly room at approximately 6 P.M., July 12, 1945. Lehr was discharged on February 6, 1946, but returned to Los Alamos to prepare for the Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll He went on to work as an administrative officer for the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Samuel Goudsmit, and later worked for Boeing as an engineering supervisor for thirty years before retiring in 1987. He passed away on January 13, 2018 at the age of 95 in Seattle, Washington.
Australians landed near Andus on Borneo and took Maradi.
The US dropped napalm on targets on Luzon.
British Field Marshal Montgomery awarded Soviet Marshal Zhukov with the Grand Cross of the Order of Bath, Marshal Rokossovsky with the KCB and Generals Sokolovsky and Malinin with the KBE.
The British King's Company of the Grenadier Guards formed the guard of honor and tanks of the King's 8th Royal Irish Hussars were drawn up on either side.
Concentration camp survivors carried a large cross through Paris in memory of the French victims of the Nazis.
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