End of World War II in Asia, the Glossary

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1. 87 relations: Aftermath of World War II, Allies of World War II, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Australia, Axis powers, Battle of Shumshu, Bockscar, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Borneo, Charles Sweeney, Chiang Kai-shek, Consolidated B-32 Dominator, Douglas MacArthur, Elpidio Quirino, Enola Gay, Entry into force, Fat Man, Fumimaro Konoe, General Order No. 1, German Instrument of Surrender, Harry S. Truman, Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito, Hirohito surrender broadcast, Incheon, India, Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Japan, Japanese holdout, Karafuto Prefecture, Kokura, Labuan, Little Boy, Ministry of the Navy (Japan), Ministry of War (pre-modern Japan), Myanmar, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Naval History and Heritage Command, New Zealand, NHK, Nobusuke Kishi, Nuclear weapon, Occupation of Japan, Operation Jurist, Papua New Guinea, Paul Tibbets, Penang, Philippines, Potsdam Conference, Potsdam Declaration, ... Expand index (37 more) »

2. 1945 in military history
3. End of World War II
4. September 1945 events in Asia
5. World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre

Aftermath of World War II

The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US).

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. End of World War II in Asia and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 1945 in military history.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Battle of Shumshu

The Battle of Shumshu, the Soviet invasion of Shumshu in the Kuril Islands, was the first stage of the Soviet Union's Invasion of the Kuril Islands in August–September 1945 during World War II. End of World War II in Asia and Battle of Shumshu are Japan campaign.

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Bockscar

Bockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the secondand most recentnuclear attack in history.

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Charles Sweeney

Charles William Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.

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Consolidated B-32 Dominator

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (Consolidated Model 34) was an American heavy strategic bomber built for United States Army Air Forces during World War II, which had the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to be engaged in combat during World War II; that engagement also resulted in the last American to die in air combat in World War II.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.

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Elpidio Quirino

Elpidio Rivera Quirino (November 16, 1890 – February 29, 1956) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 6th President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953.

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Enola Gay

The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.

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Entry into force

In law, coming into force or entry into force (also called commencement) is the process by which legislation, regulations, treaties and other legal instruments come to have legal force and effect.

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Fat Man

"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the codename for the type of nuclear weapon the United States detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.

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Fumimaro Konoe

was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1937 to 1939 and from 1940 to 1941.

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General Order No. 1

General Order No.

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German Instrument of Surrender

The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, which ended World War II in Europe, with the surrender taking effect at 23:01 CET on the same day. End of World War II in Asia and German Instrument of Surrender are end of World War II.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Herbert P. Bix

Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian.

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Hirohito

Hirohito (29 April 19017 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989.

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Hirohito surrender broadcast

The Hirohito surrender broadcast, also known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast (Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945. End of World War II in Asia and Hirohito surrender broadcast are 1945 in military history.

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Incheon

Incheon (or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Invasion of the Kuril Islands

The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (lit) was the World War II Soviet military operation to capture the Kuril Islands from Japan in 1945. End of World War II in Asia and Invasion of the Kuril Islands are Japan campaign and September 1945 events in Asia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese holdout

Japanese holdouts (lit) were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan at the end of the war.

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Karafuto Prefecture

Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a part of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin.

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Kokura

is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji.

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Labuan

Labuan, officially the Federal Territory of Labuan (Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan), is an island federal territory of Malaysia.

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Little Boy

Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.

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Ministry of the Navy (Japan)

The was a cabinet-level ministry in the Empire of Japan charged with the administrative affairs of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

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Ministry of War (pre-modern Japan)

The Ministry of War or, sometimes called Tsuwamono no Tsukasa, was a division of the eighth century Japanese government of the Imperial Court in Kyoto, instituted in the Asuka period and formalized during the Heian period.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Naval Air Facility Atsugi

is a joint Japan-US naval air base located in the cities of Yamato and Ayase in Kanagawa, Japan.

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Naval History and Heritage Command

The Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly the Naval Historical Center, is an Echelon II command responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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NHK

, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.

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Nobusuke Kishi

was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Occupation of Japan

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

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Operation Jurist

Operation Jurist referred to the British recapture of Penang following Japan's surrender in 1945. End of World War II in Asia and Operation Jurist are south West Pacific theatre of World War II and world War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Paul Tibbets

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

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Penang

Penang (Pulau Pinang) is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.

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Presidency of Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953.

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Prince Yasuhiko Asaka

was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World War.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Rabaul

Rabaul is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain.

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Radhabinod Pal

Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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Shirō Ishii

Surgeon General was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer who was the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Silverplate

Silverplate was the code reference for the United States Army Air Forces' participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Soviet invasion of Manchuria

The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

The, also known as the, was a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed on April 13, 1941, two years after the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Border War.

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Soviet–Japanese War

The Soviet–Japanese War was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945. End of World War II in Asia and Soviet–Japanese War are September 1945 events in Asia.

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Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

The was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. End of World War II in Asia and surrender of Japan are 1945 in military history, end of World War II, Japan campaign and September 1945 events in Asia.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tehran Conference

The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.

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The National Interest

The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.

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Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World War II

This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the Axis forces that also marked ending time of World War II. End of World War II in Asia and timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World War II are end of World War II.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Treaty of San Francisco

The, also called the, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II.

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Unconditional surrender

An unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees, reassurances, or promises (i.e., conditions) are given to the surrendering party.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army Military Government in Korea

The United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) was the official ruling body of the southern half of the Korean Peninsula from 8 September 1945 to 15 August 1948.

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Victory over Japan Day

Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. End of World War II in Asia and Victory over Japan Day are end of World War II.

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Wake Island

Wake Island (kio flower), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World War II Philippine war crimes trials

Between 1947 and 1949, 73 trials were conducted by the newly independent Republic of the Philippines against 155 members of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy who committed war crimes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.

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Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

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312th Aeronautical Systems Group

The 312th Aeronautical Systems Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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386th Tactical Fighter Squadron

The 386th Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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38th parallel north

The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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See also

1945 in military history

• 1945 British victory parade in Berlin
• 1945 Moscow Victory Parade
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Battle of Berlin
• Berlin Declaration (1945)
• Berlin Victory Parade of 1945
• Bombing of Dresden
• British Military Administration (Borneo)
• British Military Administration (Malaya)
• Death of Benito Mussolini
• Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• End of World War II
• End of World War II in Asia
• End of World War II in Europe
• Fairy Lochs
• Freeman Field mutiny
• Golden Mile (POW camp)
• Hirohito surrender broadcast
• Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
• Liberation of the German-occupied Channel Islands
• Liberation of the Holýšov concentration camp
• Nazi gold train
• Operation Blacklist Forty
• Operation Grenade
• Operation Pluto
• Operation Tiderace
• Operation Undertone
• Rhineland Offensive
• Siege of Danzig (1945)
• Soviet Air Forces order of battle 1 May 1945
• Surrender of Japan
• Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg
• Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)
• Trinity (nuclear test)
• Turkish declaration of war on Germany and Japan

End of World War II

• Bitburg controversy
• End of World War II in Asia
• End of World War II in Europe
• German Instrument of Surrender
• Surrender of Japan
• The War Is Over (1945 film)
• Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World War II
• Victory Day (United States)
• Victory in Europe Day
• Victory over Japan Day
• Zero hour (1945)

September 1945 events in Asia

• 1945 Harbin Victory Day Parade
• 1945 Japan–Washington flight
• Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• End of World War II in Asia
• Invasion of the Kuril Islands
• Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• Operation Tiderace
• Soviet–Japanese War
• Surrender of Japan
• Yamato Hotel incident

World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre

• Action of 11 January 1944
• Action of 13 November 1943
• Action of 17 July 1944
• Battle of Bukit Timah
• Battle of Christmas Island
• Battle of Gurun
• Battle of Jitra
• Battle of Kampar
• Battle of Kota Bharu
• Battle of Kranji
• Battle of Muar
• Battle of Pasir Panjang
• Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan
• Battle of Slim River
• Battle of the Malacca Strait
• Bombing of Singapore (1941)
• Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
• Bombing of Sukabumi
• Burma campaign
• End of World War II in Asia
• Fall of Singapore
• Indian Ocean in World War II
• Japanese invasion of Thailand
• Malayan campaign
• Mission 204
• Operation Balsam
• Operation Banquet (Padang)
• Operation Collie
• Operation Crimson
• Operation Culverin
• Operation Jurist
• Operation Krohcol
• Operation Lentil (Sumatra)
• Operation Light
• Operation Livery
• Operation Mailfist
• Operation Millet
• Operation Outflank
• Operation Robson
• Operation Sunfish
• Operation Zipper
• Raid at Cabanatuan
• The Hump

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_World_War_II_in_Asia

Also known as End of World War II in the Pacific, Ending of World War II.

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