VJ75 On This Day August 19, 2020 fepowhistory Leave a comment 19th August 1945 Kwantung Army Headquarters issue surrender orders to the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria.The Soviet invasion of Maoka on Southern Sakhalin Island begins.Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yongjiazhen ends, communist victory. Kwantung Army Headquarters
VJ75 On This Day August 16, 2020 fepowhistory Leave a comment 16th August 1945 General Jonathan Wainwright, senior field commander of U.S. and Philippine forces, is released from Manchuria.The Japanese cabinet resigns.Emperor Hirohito issues a decree at 16:00JST ordering Japanese forces to ceasefire.Winston Churchill speaks in the House of Commons and describes an “iron curtain” that has descended across Europe.Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yongjiazhen begins. General Jonathan WainwrightSir Winston Churchill