http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/7/27.htm
August 27th, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: 542 Squadron, RAF, (Photo Reconnaissance) is disbanded at RAF Benson. (Bob Hart)(137)
BURMA: Contact has been established with the Japanese troops in the Sittang valley and they now await specific surrender instructions.
JAPAN: The US Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses begin supplying prisoners-of-war and internee camps in Japan, China, and Korea with medical supplies, food, and clothing. The first supply drop (to Weihsien Camp near Peking, China) is followed by a concentrated effort of 900 sorties in a period of less than a month. 4,470 tons of supplies are dropped to about 63,500 prisoners in 154 camps.
A USN PB4Y-2 Privateer lands at Atsugi Airfield, Japan because of mechanical problems. The Japanese do not approach the aircraft and the plane returns to Iwo Jima the same day.
Halsey moves his fleet into Sagami Bay, southwest of Yokohama. At 6:00 AM the 4th Marines land to begin dealing with harbour defences.
With most surrender and occupation arrangements made, the Allied fleet prepares to enter Sagami Wan (Bay) and the adjacent Tokyo Bay. To facilitate this operation, the Japanese destroyer HIJMS Hatsukakura brings out several Japanese naval officers to provide piloting services. Fear of treachery remained strong, so the visitors are carefully searched and treated sternly. However, there are no hostile incidents, and the pilots safely bring the U.S. and British warships into their anchorages. Part of this armada is the USN’s Third Fleet under Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. The Third Fleet consists of 23 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 26 cruisers, 116 destroyers and destroyer escorts and 12 submarines.
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: An armed truce has been declared throughout New Britain Island.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Isolated Japanese garrisons are reported to be ignorant of the ceasefire.
U.S.A.: President Harry S. Truman says that the situation in the Pacific continues to have many elements of danger and urges Congress to continue the draft (conscription) for a further two years.
Britain to receive 1,000s of LST from Pacific. Looks like it was only 113? but that may have been during the war. A very good history of LST at site.
A total of 1,152 LST’s were contracted for in the great naval building program of World War II, but 101 were cancelled in the fall of 1942 because of shifting construction priorities. 0f 1,051 actually constructed, 113 LST’s were transferred to Great Britain under the terms of lend-lease, and four more were turned over to the Greek Navy. Conversions to other ship types with different hull designations accounted for 116.
The end of World War II left the Navy with a huge inventory of amphibious ships. Hundreds of these were scrapped or sunk, and most of the remaining ships were put in “mothballs” to be preserved for the future. Consequently, construction of LST’s in the immediate post-war years was modest.
More discussion here. A versatile ship. used for ferrying after the war.
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Landing_Ship,_Tank
Here is a list of LST, many returned to US in 46 and 47 per lend lease rules, (but scrapped)
http://www.warshipsww2.eu/lode.php?language=E&period=&idtrida=1051
Interesting that Pravda believes that the cessation of hostilities with Japan had a lot in common with the Armistice of 1918.
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