WED 22 AUG 1945
Pacific
Captain Harold B. Grow, Atoll Commander, Majuro, accepts surrender of Mille Atoll, Marshalls (the first Japanese garrison to capitulate in the Pacific) on board destroyer escort Levy (DE-162).
Navy Petroleum Reserve 4 Expedition, formed around cargo ship Spica (AK-16) and U.S. freighters Jonathan Harrington and Enos A. Mills, discharges remainder of tonnage at Point Barrow (see 24 and 25 August).
Japanese antiaircraft batteries near Hong Kong fire upon navy patrol planes over China Coast.
Japanese destroyer Asagao is damaged by mine in Shimonoseki Straits.
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Capitulation
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