Edgerton dodged a bullet.
Some were attended by the famous.
As well as the not so famous.
Georgetown played a Marine Corps football team:
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Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or enlisted into said Battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required...
America and British troops landed in the Tokyo region. The US 11th Airborne Division flew into Atsugi airfield. The 4th and 6th Marine Regiments landed in the naval base at Yokosuka. General MacArthur flew from Manila to organize the US occupation and set up his temporary headquarters at Yokohama.
The USS San Juan started to evacuate Allied prisoners of war detained in the Japanese home islands.
The Royal Navy reoccupied Hong Kong.
Japanese surrenders in Burma continued..
The Allied Control Council took formal control of Germany.
A B-29 Superfortress on a supply flight crashed in bad weather in the neighbourhood of Mount Oyaji (親父岳, Oyaji-take) on Mount Sobo (祖母山). All twelve crewmen were killed.
Hồ Chí Minh invited several people to contribute their ideas toward his Declaration of Independence, including a number of American OSS officers. While there were notable exceptions, like John Burch, the OSS was heavily left leaning and indeed included a number of Communists within its ranks, something that was not really very much frowned on at the time.
Mexico recognized the Spanish Republican government in exile as the government of Spain. The Spanish Republican government in exile was located in Mexico City, having relocated there after the fall of France in World War Two. It'd return to Paris in 1946. The body would recognize the restored Spanish constitutional monarch as the legitimate government in 1977.
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Marines completed a withdrawal from Nicaragua after a thirteen year occupation.
They'd be back.
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Today in World War II History—June 30, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 30, 1945: In the Philippines, Luzon is declared secure. Organized Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines.
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Indeed, some Japanese troops would hold out on the Philippines on an individual basis for decades.
American forces on Okinawa completed a week of mop-up operations in which 8,975 Japanese were reported killed and 2,902 captured, showing how intense operations remained.
While not apparent to anyone yet, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps had effectively concluded the main part of their ground fighting in the war. Ground combat, however, carried on for the British and Dominion armies, and the Chinese Army.
Former U.S. Army Air Force base Liuzhou, China, was recaptured by the Chinese. They also took Chungchin on the Indochinese border.
The French the 5e REI, a Foreign Legion regiment which had been stationed in Indochina, was deactivated, having been decimated in their retreat into China.
Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to be Secretary of State.
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Today in World War II History—June 20, 1940 & 1945: Australians take oil fields at Seria on Borneo.
Hard fighting continues on Okinawa, but 1,000 Japanese troops surrendered.
Australians landed at Lutong in eastern Sarawak, Borneo.
The Australian 26th Infantry Brigade captured Hill 90 on Tarakan Island, ending organized Japanese resistance.
The Polish government in exile denies the right of the Soviets to try Polish ministers who had flown to Moscow and were arrested.
The United Nations agreed to let the General Assembly have the right to discuss "any matters within the scope of the charter".
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The Australian 9th Infantry Division captured Brunei.
Japanese resistance on Okinawa's Oruku peninsula came to an end. Marines took 169 Japanese POWs and found 200 dead, a surprising figure given Japanese unwillingness to surrender.
Admiral Minoru Ōta, age 54, killed himself on Okinawa.
U.S. Army ordnance experts claimed that German plans to attack the United States with rockets, Projekt Amerika, might have been realized by November 1945.
The German design, a development of the V-2 but significantly different, actually would have required a pilot, as existing guidance systems were regarded as inadequate.
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Today in World War II History—June 12, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 12, 1945: US Marines make push for final pocket of Japanese forces on Okinawa; hundreds of Japanese Marines commit suicide.
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On Okinawa, US troops took the Yaeju Dake escarpment.
Allied forces occupied Trieste.
Dwight D. Eisenhower received the Freedom of the City of London and the Order of Merit. In receiving them, he stated:
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
The Visayan Islands, including Samar, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Cebu, and Bohol, between Luzon and Mindanao, were secured by American forces.
Penn Station, June 12, 1945.
Niecey Brown, a 74-year-old Black woman, died from injuries after an off-duty white police officer forcibly entered her house and beat her with a bottle in Selma, Alabama.
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Yugoslavia agreed to evacuate Trieste so that claims to who should administer it could be resolved.
Ultimately the city would go to Italy.
Japanese Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki told the Diet that Japan would "fight to the last."
The 37th Infantry Division captured Bagabag on Luzon. The 24th Infantry Division took Mandog on Mindanao
A victory parade was held in Los Angeles for George S. Patton and James Doolittle.
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Today in World War II History—June 4, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 4, 1945: US Marines land behind Japanese lines on Oroku Peninsula on Okinawa.US Office of Civilian Defense is inactivated.
Today in World War II History—June 3, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 3, 1945: French troops leave Damascus, escorted by the British. US Marines land on Iheya Shima in the Ryukyu Islands northwest of Okinawa.
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Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.
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