August 25, 1945
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SATURDAY, 25 AUGUST 1945

CHINA THEATER (AAF, China Theater) Tenth Air Force: C-47 units moving to Luliang: 3d and 4th Combat Cargo Squadrons, 1st Combat Cargo Group (under operational control of HQ 69th Composite Wing), from Myitkyina and Hathazari, India respectively.

Fourteenth Air Force: The 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Fourteenth AF, moves from Laohwangping to Liuchow with F-6s.

WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: Unit moves: 68th Troop Carrier Squadron and 69th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433d Troop Carrier Group from Clark Field to Iwo Jima with C-46s and C-47s respectively; 318th Troop Carrier Squadron (Commando), 3d Air Commando Group, from Laoag to Ie Shima with C-47s.

USSR: The Japanese garrison on Onekotan Island surrendered to Soviet forces without resistance.

USN: SCAP informed Task Force 31 that the typhoon danger would delay U.S. Army air operations over Japan for 48 hours. The Third Fleet's entry into Sagami Bay until August 28, 1945. The landing of the U.S. occpation forces was postponed until August 30, 1945.

Carrier planes from carrier task groups including USS Yorktown (CV-10) begin daily flights over Japan to monitor airfields, shipping movements, and to locate and drop supplies to Prisoner Of War (POW) camps until the official surrender on September 2, 1945.

USS Chanticleer (ASR-7) salvage divers locate the shipwreck of Akitsushima sunk in Coron Bay at a depth of 108'.

Task Group 95.4 (TG 95.4) under Captain Henry J. Armstrong, Jr. returns to Buckner Bay after completing mine clearance work in the East China Sea and destroyed 578 mines during eleven days of sweeping.

Carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) and destroyer Chauncey (DD-667) are damaged by typhoon.

Chief of Naval Operations accords Navy Petroleum Reserve 4 Expedition a "well done" for accomplishing its mission "in an expeditious and seamanlike manner in spite of fog and ice."

In the morning, sixteen PT Boats from Squadron 11 under the command of Lt. Comdr. Theodore R. Stansbury, USNR, get underway for a rendezvous with the commanders of the Japanese forces on Halmahera. The force included PT 115 under the command of Lt. Comdr. Theodore R. Stansbury with Maj. Gen. Harry H. Johnson, commander U.S. Army 93rd Infantry Division (Colored) and his staff. As arranged by radio, the PT Boats rendezvoused with two Japanese barges with Japanese Army General Ishii's chief of staff and operations officer near Miti Island off northeast Halmahera. The Japanese were instructed to bring their commander to surender August 26, 1945 on Morotai.