August 22, 1945
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WEDNESDAY, 22 AUGUST 1945

WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: C-47 units arriving on Okinawa from Hawaii: 311th Troop Carrier Squadron, US Army Forces, Middle Pacific; and 316th Troop Carrier Squadron, Seventh AF.

USSR: In Manchuria and Sakhalin Island, fighting with the Japanese ends with 600,000 Japanese troops surrender and were interred in labor camps in Siberia and Mongila where 60,000 would never return.

U.S. Navy: Aboard destroyer escort USS Levy (DE-162) Captain Harold B. Grow, Atoll Commander, Majuro, accepts the surrender of the Japanese garrison of Mille Atoll by Captain Masanori Shiga, the first Japanese garrison to capitulate in the Pacific, eleven days before the formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945.

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.

Japanese antiaircraft batteries near Hong Kong fire upon Navy patrol planes over the coast of China.

Japanese destroyer Asagao is damaged by mine in Shimonoseki Strait.