October 1, 1945
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MONDAY, 1 OCTOBER 1945

USN: Since October 1, 1945, U.S. Navy ships had returned approximately 1,300,000 officers and men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard to the U.S. from overseas. Reference: The Navy's Demobilization Program, page 1.

USMC: Marine Corps peacetime strength, set at 100,000 male regular Marines, had been nearly reached with approximately 95,000 regulars on active duty and with very few of them due for discharge until 1948.

Aviation shore establishments had been theoretically based on a post-war level. The Marine Corps Air Stations at Mojave and El Centro, California, had converted to Navy control and were redesignated as Naval Air Stations. The Marine Corps Air Station, Parris Island, South Carolina, was deactivated.

All reservists and selectees became eligible for discharge regardless of the length of their active duty.

The ten provisional Marine detachments and military elements of occupation forces that had been formed since the end of the war, except those on Wake, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok had been either disbanded or redesignated a Marine barracks or made a permanent Marine detachment.

RAN: During a surrender ceremony on the quarterdeck of HMAS Diamantina (K377), Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Lieutenant Commander Naoomi Suzuki and senior staff officer Lieutenant Sukuma surrender the Japanese garrison on Ocean Island (Banaba) to Australian Army Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, Commanding Officer (C. O.) 11th Infantry Brigade.