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History on the 9th of September

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09 Sep 1912 WW2 Masafumi Arima rolled in the Japanese Naval Academy in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW2 Hubert Lanz was severely wounded in combat. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW2 Upon receiving word that the French 6th Army was on the offensive near Paris, France, British troops reversed from their retreat to join the offensive. German forces began to fall back, and the Allied pursuit would be slow. 
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09 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
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09 Sep 1927 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was attached to the Army Ministry in Tokyo, Japan and was placed in charge with China affairs. 
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09 Sep 1934 WW2 Adolf Hitler reviewed a SA formation at the 4th Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg, Germany; in light of the recent purge of the SA, the SS placed a very heavy guard around Hitler's reviewing stand, but the parade would be uneventful. 
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09 Sep 1936 WW2 At the annual party rally Hitler announced a four year plan for economic and military revival under the supervision of Hermann Göring. Hjalmar Schlat, the Reich Minister of Economics, insultingly was not notified of the plan until it was publicly announced. 
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09 Sep 1936 WW2 The Non-Intervention Committee met for the first time in London, England, United Kingdom. It was created to prevent personnel and matériel reaching the warring parties of the Spanish Civil War. 
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09 Sep 1937 WW2 Xinjiang provincial troops captured Yarkand, Xinjiang, China with Soviet air support. 
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09 Sep 1937 WW2 The 9,100-ton light cruiser, HMS Glasgow, built at Scotts (Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom), was commissioned with Captain Francis N. Attwood in command. 
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09 Sep 1938 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt announced that the United States would remain neutral on the topic of German pressures on Czechoslovakia. 
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09 Sep 1938 WW2 HMS Mohawk (L31) was commissioned into service with Commander R. F. Jolly in command. 
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09 Sep 1938 WW2 The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was established as the women's voluntary branch of the British Army. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 British Expeditionary Forces (BEF) began landing in France. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 German Gestapo ordered all misbehaving Polish citizens to be arrested and placed in Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 Battle of the Bzura, also known as Battle of Kutno to the Germans, began; it was to become the largest battle in the Poland campaign. Elsewhere, German forces captured Lodz and Radom. South of Radom, Stuka dive-bombers of Colonel Gunter Schwarzkopff's St.G.77 finished off the great Polish attempt to cross the Vistula River, crushing the last pockets of resistance in conjunction with tanks; "Wherever they went", reported one Stuka pilot after the action, "we came across throngs of Polish troops, against which our 110-lb fragmentation bombs were deadly. After that we went almost down to the deck firing our machine guns. The confusion was indescribable." At Warsaw, German attempts to enter the city were repulsed. In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov informed the German ambassador that Soviet forces would be ready to attack Poland within a few days. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's cabinet planned for a 3-year war. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 Two Wellington bombers from No. 99 (Madras Presidency) Squadron RAF based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom recorded the first operational mission to Germany when they undertook a "Nickel" (leaflet dropping) sortie over Hannover. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt began recalling military servicemen who were on retired lists. 
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09 Sep 1939 WW2 The Vultee Model 48 Vanguard aircraft took its first flight. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 All political parties in Norway were dissolved except for Quisling's Nasjonal Samling Party, which was installed as the pro-Nazi Norwegian government. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 The US Navy awarded contracts for the construction of 210 new ships, including 12 aircraft carriers and 7 battleships. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian Army Marshal Rudolfo Graziani ordered his troops in Libya to march toward British positions, with troops of the Italian 10th Army under General Mario Berti as spearhead; the Italian goal was to capture the Suez Canal. Italian aircraft bombed British defensive positions while British aircraft flew sorties against Italian supply dumps and troop concentrations. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Greek collier Antonios Chandris, abandoned by her crew as forced by German armed merchant cruiser Widder, was sunk by demolition charges at dawn. Lifeboats containing 22 of her crew of 29 would be rescued by Portuguese freighter Serpa Pinto on 8 Oct 1940. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 sank Greek ship Possidon of Allied convoy SC-2 70 miles north of Ireland at 0024 hours; 17 were killed. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-28 sank British ship Mardinian of Allied convoy SC-2 70 miles north of Ireland at 0447 hours; 6 were killed and 22 survived. Italian submarine Comandante Faà di Bruno damaged British tanker Auris 750 miles west of Gibraltar. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 British Skua aircraft of 801 Squadron took off from Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Orkney, Scotland to attack German shipping off Bergen, Norway; 1 of the Skua was lost during the attack, with two airmen killed. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank British tanker Athelking (without any cargo) 1,200 miles east of Madagascar; 6 were killed and 40 were captured. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Walther von Brauchitsch issued a plan for the future military occupation of Britain which, among other things, called for the rounding up of males between the age of 17 and 35 to be sent to continental Europe as forced laborers and the systematic looting of British goods; this type of harsh treatment was not even implemented in German-occupied Poland at this time. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft and damaged the rudder of a He 111 aircraft using his propeller. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded Iron Cross 2nd Class. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 At Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the first eight of many American submarines were transferred to the British Royal Navy. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 French intelligence reported a possible invasion of Dakar in West Africa by General de Gaulle's forces, supported by the British. In response, French cruisers Georges Leygues, Montcalm, and Gloire, supported by three destroyers, departed Toulon in southern France to reinforce Dakar. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Montcalm departed Toulon, France. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of Britain. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Illustrious and HMS Eagle attacked Italian airfields on the island of Rhodes, Greece; Eagle lost 4 aircraft in this attack. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 German long-range guns shelled Dover, England. 
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09 Sep 1940 WW2 A large German raid crossed the English Channel at 1700 hours and flew toward London, England, United Kingdom in two pincers. Unexpectedly, a British "Big Wing" formation came to intercept, shooting down 29 bombers and 21 Bf 109 fighters and prevented most of the German bombers from reaching London. The British lost 20 fighters (6 pilots killed) in the battle. Overnight, London was heavily bombed. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 Dutch submarine O.24 sank Italian ship Italo Balbo 2 miles east of Corsica, France. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 British carrier HMS Ark Royal launched 14 Hurricane fighters to reinforce Malta. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-81 sank British ship Empire Springbuck 50 miles east of Greenland at 0655 hours, killing all 42 on board. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 German cruiser Admiral Scheer was ordered to sail from Oslo, Norway for Swinemünde, Germany (now Swinoujscie, Poland). 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 General Nicolae Ciuperca was replaced by Lieutenant General Iosif Iacobici as the commanding officer of the Romanian 4th Army. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 The Iranian Government accepted the Soviet and British terms, which included the closure of Axis legations and the surrender of German nationals. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 Vojtech Tuka, with the guidance of German SS-Hauptstrumführer Dieter Wisliceny, enacted the Ordinance Judenkodex which required Slovakian Jews to wear the yellow Stars of David, annulled all debts owed to Jews, confiscated Jewish property, and deported all Jews from the capital Bratislava. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in US Territory of Hawaii noticed carrier Akagi was using new call signs in her radio communications. 
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09 Sep 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a Hurricane fighter over the Bay of Sollum in the morning, his 15th kill. In the afternoon, on another mission, he shot down another Hurricane fighter, the 16th kill, while escorting Stuka dive bombers toward Bardia, Libya. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Field Marshal Wilhelm List was sacked, and Adolf Hitler took over command of Armeegruppe A which had been meeting heavy resistance in the Caucasus in southern Russia. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to the Guadalcanal Operation Force based at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Montpelier was commissioned into service. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 German intelligence reported in error that the Soviet Union had used up all reserves. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-584 made contact with Allied convoy ON-127 in the middle of the North Atlantic and relayed the finding to 11 fellow wolfpack mates. At 1516 hours, U-755 sank US Navy weather ship USS Muskeget 590 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland; all 121 aboard were killed. At 1528 hours, U-66 sank Swedish ship Peiping 875 miles north of Antigua island; 3 were killed, 31 survived. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 British RAF torpedo bombers sank Italian hospital ship Arno 85 miles northeast of Tobruk, Libya. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 The escort force of Allied convoy PQ-18 was joined by Rear Admiral Robert Burnett's force including escort carrier HMS Avenger and several small warships. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Australian troops fell back 2 miles from Efogi to Menari on the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua while US aircraft from Port Moresby area airfields momentarily paused the Japnaese advance. At Port Moresby, Australian 25th Infantry Brigade arrived from Australia. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet aircraft destroyed two Italian torpedo boats in the Black Sea off Yalta, Ukraine. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 In the Caroline Islands, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet transferred main units at Truk atoll to a new anchorage south of Summer (Dublon) Island. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Shirakumo at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Two British, one Australian, and three Dutch prisoners of Oflag IV-C prisoners of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany made their escape, five disguised as Polish workers and the sixth as the German guard. Four of them would eventually be captured, but Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Hedley Fowler and Royal Dutch Navy Lieutenant Damiaem van Doorninck would make it to Switzerland. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 Burning of bodies in open-air pits began at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Additionally, a decision was made to dig up 107,000 already-buried bodies and burn them in pits; this decision was made to prevent the large number of bodies contaminating ground water. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 The Lookout Air Raid: After some time waiting submerged off Oregon, United States, Japanese submarine I-25 launched her E14Y aircraft, flown by Pilot Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita and crewman Petty Officer Shoji Okuda, shortly after dawn. The aircraft was spotted by the Americans as it crossed the coast. It dropped two incendiary bombs in a forest near Brookings, Oregon at 0600 hours; this attack was the only aerial bombing against the United States during WW2. En route back to the submarine, the aircraft spotted two merchant ships. After recovering Fujita and Okuda, I-25 attempted to give chase to the two merchant ships, but US aircraft would force I-25 to abandon the attack and submerge. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Whale completed her training which took place between San Francisco and San Diego in California, United States. 
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09 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Permit began a scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Tirpitz arrived at Kåfjord, Norway. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 The British Ventura bombers flew their last bombing mission; they would soon be replaced by Mosquito aircraft. This last mission was flown by crews of the No. 21 Squadron RAF. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 The US submarine Grayling was missing, presumed rammed and sunk by a Japanese vessel, whilst on patrol off Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish departed Brisbane, Australia for her first war patrol. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Hubert Lanz was given command of XXII Gebirgskorps in Greece. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 5 on board. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 US B-26 Marauder bomber attacked Scanzano Jonico, Italy, 50 kilometers southwest of Taranto. At Taranto, four British cruisers disembarked troops of British 1st Airborne Division, taking the port city with Italian cooperation; the British troops began marching inland after sundown. To the west, the main Allied assault on Italy, Operation Avalanche, began with the landing of two British divisions and one American division at Salerno; the British troops pushed 8 to 11 kilometers inland, which the Americans held on to a precarious beachhead. To the north, German troops disarmed their former Italian allies and classified them as prisoners of war while a new Fascist Anti-Badoglio government was formed. Italian leaders King Vittorio Emanuele III, the queen, Pietro Badoglio, Vittorio Ambrosio, and others fled Rome eastward, then turned south toward Brindisi. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Small scale clashes took place between Italian civilians and policemen and German troops. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 15th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Harder sank cargo ship Koyo Maru off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Taroa, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands and disembarked troops. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport between Kwajalein Atoll and Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. A Japanese aircraft spotted USS Permit and attacked with depth charges; USS Permit escaped unscathed. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 5,006 Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia arrived at the newly created Familienlager-Theresienstadt family camp in sector BIIb of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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09 Sep 1943 WW2 John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in Newark, New Jersey, United States. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 General de Gaulle created a provisional government which included Communards. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 The Bulgarian Fatherland Front successfully overthrew the government and declared war on Germany. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 Robert von Greim was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht radio report. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Rock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fourth war patrol. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Takazumi Oka was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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09 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 Operation Magic Carpet: Americans began the repatriation of servicemen from the Pacific theatre. Over the next six months, 369 warships would take 1.3 million men back to the United States. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 Georgy Zhukov ordered his troops to stop committing crimes against the German civilian population; this order would be countermanded by Joseph Stalin on 20 Sep 1945 as the order was perceived to have failed to improve discipline. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese Army General Yasuji Okamura, Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Force, signed a surrender document at Nanjing, China on behalf of 1,000,000 Japanese troops and handed it to General He Yingqin, acting on behalf of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 Americans Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Lieutenant General John Hodge accepted the surrender of all Japanese forces in Korea in the General Government Building in Seoul, Korea. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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09 Sep 1945 WW2 The Maruyama Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was closed. 
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09 Sep 1946 WW2 USS Boarfish departed California, United States for a tour in the western Pacific. 
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