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From Occupied Germany... The Potsdam Declaration is issued in a radio
broadcast demanding the immediate and unconditional surrender of Japan. It also threatens the "prompt and utter destruction" of the Japanese
homeland, if the government of Japan fails to do so.
In Britain... The election results are announced. Attlee, leading the Labour Party (winning 394 seats in the House of Commons), becomes Prime Minister of a majority government. Churchill and the ruling Conservative Party (winning 188 seats) are defeated. The Liberal Party wins 14 seats; the National Liberal Party wins 13 seats; the Ulster Unionist Party wins 9 seats; the Communist Party wins 2 seats and others win a total of 20 seats.
In the South China Sea... The first Japanese Kamikaze attack on the British East Indies Fleet damages the escort carrier
Ameer and sinks the minesweeper Vestal off the coast of Malaya.
In Malaya... British naval and air units end attacks on
Japanese positions and transportation targets on the west coast.
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the Marianna Islands... The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis
delivers the consignment of Uranium-235, needed to assemble the first
operational atomic bomb, to the American base on Tinian. |
