Surrender of Japan at Tokyo Bay Ends World War II
The text of Japan's formal surrender declares unconditional surrender to the Allied powers, ordered by the Japanese government and forces, ending hostilities. It calls for preservation of property and compliance with Allied requirements under the supreme commander.
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U.S.S. Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Japan
Imperial General Headquarters
United States
China
Great Britain
Potsdam
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Japanese Imperial General Headquarters
Signing Ceremony Marks Japan Surrender At Tokyo Bay
General Douglas MacArthur presided as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Imperial staff sign surrender documents aboard the U S S Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945. Allied leaders including Wainwright Percival Blamey Nimitz and Kin K Aid witness as Kinga i and others sign. The ceremony ends with MacArthur declaring the proceedings closed and the Allies signaling a new peace era.
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Marlin Spencer
Spencer Davis
U.S.S. Missouri
Tokyo Bay
MacArthur
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japan
Shigemitsu
Selective Service Converts 2-B Deferment to 2-A
The draft system abolishes class 2-B occupational deferments and transfers all August 31 registrants to 2-A. 2-A covers deferments tied to national health and defense needs. Registrants aged 18 to 25 in full time medical or related studies receive special consideration, as do national defense and reconversion personnel.
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Washington
Selective Service
United States
MacArthur declares surrender terms as world hails peace
In a dramatic broadcast from the Missouri and Ancon relay, General MacArthur proclaims the terms of Japan's surrender, voicing justice and tolerance while pledging full compliance. Nimitz praises service members as Hirohito orders Japan to cease hostilities and carry out surrender provisions.
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MacArthur
Red Powers
Missouri
V. J. Day
America
Truman
White House
Japan
Pacific
Bataan
Corregidor
Nimitz
United Nations
Hirohito
Tokyo Radio Still Errs
Joseph C. Grew former ambassador to Japan arrived at General MacArthur's headquarters in Yokohama for a quiet weekend. He recently resigned as under secretary of state and is staying at the summer resort home of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Crosby in Manchester Massachusetts.
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Tokyo Radio
Manchester
Mass
Joseph C. Grew
Japa
General MacArthur
Yokohama
Grew
S. V. R. Crosby
First VOC Enlistee Capt Harold Z Moore Heroic Bronze Star
Capt Harold Z Moore of the 99th division led an anti tank platoon during a December 16 1944 engagement in Germany earning the Bronze Star for heroic action. The order notes his courage helped blunt enemy breakthroughs and supported battalion reorganization. Moore recieved a presidential citation for the action and was recommended for the Silver Star. He returned to the US last week and remains in Ada with family nearby.
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Harold Z. Moore
United States
Moore
510 East 10Th
Germany
Aachen
Beligum
Lynn
Susan
Kansas City Woman Between Two Husbands After War News
Mrs. Ann Birdwell Marshall, 19, learned her presumed dead husband Gene Birdwell is alive. She agrees to return to her first husband if he wants her, after a 14 day marriage to Jack Marshall. Her attorney says pursue annulment of the second marriage.
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Kansas City
Ann Birdwell-Marshall
Jack Marshall
Wichita
Kansas
Marshall
Gene D. Birdwell
Yokohama
Birdwell
Burma
Gene
Jack
Morrison To Aid Health Workshop In Shawnee
Ben L. Morrison director of rural education at East Central State college will serve as a consultant in a four day health workshop in Shawnee. The program runs from Tuesday September 4 through the week with a focus on health education in rural schools and in-service teacher training.
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Ben L. Morrison
East Central State College
Shawnee
Morrison
Truck collision kills Purcell dealer in Oklahoma
Paoli Oklahoma September 4 Leo Frank Grisham 37 Purcell lease and royalty dealer was killed early today in a crash on U S Highway 77 north of Paoli The occupants of the truck Leasel Gewens 37 and his son Robert 15 were seriously hurt both riding in the back of the truck authorities said
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Paoli
Okla
Leo Frank Grisham
Purcell
Yanks Describe Prison Sufferings in Japan Evacuation Efforts
Americans liberated from Japanese camps told Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger of starvation brutality and torture as lists of war criminals grew. The Benevolence carried evacuees including 462 in serious condition and 3 000 more to Niigata while carrier patrols sought others and Britain reported about 39 100 Commonwealth internees in camps across Asia.
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Yokohama
Japan
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Navy
Hamamatsu
Tokyo
Ashio
Niigata
Honshu
Hokkaido
U. S
Hikone
Nagoya
France
Bruce Fraser
Pacific Islands
Yangtze Valley
China
Formosa
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Korea
Eichelberger
General Headquarters War Crimes Branch
Salt Lake City
Ohori
Pellagra
Frederick L. McDaniel
Alexandria
Stanley Livingston James
West Point
Industry Reconversion Declared By WPB Better Than Expected
WPB reports reconversion of industry is coming along better than expected with 42 major industries surveyed. Krug says by December civilians will be produced at higher value than 1939-41, though unemployment remains. Meat and gas outlooks improve, sugar rationing continues, and anti inflation lists aid housewives.
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Max Hall
Washington
CPA
WPB
Ickes
Japan
Agriculture
Anderson
New Mexico
Labor Department
OPA
J. A. Krug
Congress
Truman
Ways and Means Committee
House
Doughton
D.-N.c
East Central Plans To Have Football Team This Season
East Central announces a return of football and basketball under 1st Lt. Edward C. Wilds who will supervise athletics for men. The plan targets a strong post war schedule beginning this fall with Central State college as an early foe and hopes for a full basketball schedule as veterans return. Lt. Wilds brings Army Air Corps physical education experience and previously directed workouts at the 343rd Air Crew Detachment and other Texas camps.
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Central State College
Edward C. Wilds
Tiger
East Central
Tiger Cagers
Wilds
Ada
343Rd Air Crew
Army Air Corps
Texas
Grand Haven
Mich
Western State College
Michigan
Center School to Open Monday September 10
Announcement states the Center school will begin Monday September 10 as part of the county wide start to the new school year. A note mentions a first helicopter used in scientific collaboration to observe Paricutin volcano in Mexico.
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Paricutin Volcano
Mexico
Revival oil well boosts Creeks county field activity southwest of Beggs
Tulsa report notes a big revival well in the Tabor-Slick-Wilcox area southwest of Beggs in creek county producing 200 barrels in 20 hours after reaching the Dutcher sand. Additional new producers in the West Edmond field and wildcat testing in McClain and Greer counties boost overall activity.
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John H. Booker
Tulsa
Okla
Beggs
Creek County
West Edmond
McClain County
Tabor-Slick-Wilcox
George F. Martin
Okmulgee
Hunton
West
Edmond
Denver Producing and Refining Co
Sitlington
Cse
Carter Oil Co
No. 1
Autry
Greer County
Stephens Petroleum ,O
John
Lower Wilcox
Garfield County
Gulf Oil Corp
Decker
Wildcat
Old Brown Pool
Kay County
Continental Oil Co
Mansfield
Sene NE
Thomas and
Tonkawa
Texas Co
Markle
Comanche County
Stephens
Whitaker
Pottawatomie County
White
Stephens County
Wolfe
Washita County
Irty
Tulsa World Survey
Vandergrift Promises Fair Demobilization For Marines
General A. A. Vandergrift, Marine Commandant, told his men in the Pacific that they will be sent home in a manner as rapid, equitable and orderly as possible. He announced a demobilization system and stated it would be the fairest and most efficient. The remark accompanied the president's V J Day proclamation and praised Marine contributions to victory.
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Washington
A. A. Vandergrift
Marine Co
Pacific
Vandergrift
Husband of Former Adan Is Rescued
Lee Eddleman reports the liberation of his brother in law Col William C Braly from a Japanese prison camp near Mukden Manchuria likely by Russian forces Braly served on Gen Wainwrights staff and had been a prisoner since the fall of Corregidor Mrs Braly formerly Verna Eddleman lived in Ada years ago and has since resided in California after returning from the Philippines before Pearl Harbor.
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Lee Eddleman
Col
William C. Braly
Mukden
Manchuria
Col. Braly
Gen
Wainwright
Corregidor
Braly
Verna Eddleman
Ada
California
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Public access law requires copies to major libraries
A UK statute mandates one copy of every published work be supplied on demand to specified libraries including the Bodleian Library and Cambridge University Library, ensuring public and academic access across England.
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England
Bodleian Library
Oxford
Cambridge University
Pioneer mining mission flies deep into Korean waters
S/Sgt. J. C. Holden of the Sixth Bomb Group participated in the July 11 Pioneer mining mission over northern Korean waters. The B-29 crew flew 3,500 miles to mine fields near Russia, returning to Iwo Jima for fuel and then to Tinian. The mission tested extreme navigation, fuel use, and weather as the crew completed a 10 hour 35 minute mine-laying leg.
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J. C. Holden
R. H. Holden
West
Japan
Holden
Russia
Iwo Jima
Tinian
Okinawa
Solomon Flowers Stationed In France
Pvt. Solomon B. Flowers of 415 South Johnston was at Le Havre Port of Embarkation in France where thousands of troops pass through. The port ships about 6,000 troops daily and operates five staging areas for processing. Before service he worked at a local theater and served as a cannoneer with a field artillery battalion.
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Pvt
Solomon B. Flowers
South
Johnston
le Havre
France
Pvt. Flowers
Captain Cavin Returns From ETO Service
Captain Riley Cavin arrives back in the United States after two years with the 490th Bombardment Group in the European Theater of Operations. He visited Ada with his wife and baby, shares war tales with relatives, and is noted as a nephew of Mrs. E. L. Jackson. He has traveled over 20,000 miles and earned six decorations including the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Presidential Unit Citation.
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Riley Cavin
States
490Th
Fighth Air Force
Ada
E. L. Jackson
Cavin
Air Medal Awarded to S Sgt Gene Mayfield
S Sgt Gene Mayfield 19 year old B-24 engineer with the 13th Air Force in the Pacific receives the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He also wears the Presidential Unit Citation and the Pacific theater ribbon with six battle stars. He is the son of Mr and Mrs A W Mayfield of Lake Station Sand Springs and grandson of Mr and Mrs J W Mayfield of Tupelo.
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Gene Mayfield
13Th Air Force
Pacific
A. W. Mayfield
Lake Station
Sand Springs
Sgt. Mayfield
J. W. Mayfield
Tupelo
Two Welch Brothers In Service Now
Billy Joe Welch a fireman first class recently finished diesel engineering school in Miami Florida and was assigned to the USS Paiute at Charleston S C after graduation Ada High School alum enlisted in December 1944 Their brother James Welch has served 25 months overseas as a radio operator in the Air Corps and is stationed in Cairo Egypt They are sons of Mr and Mrs Ellis Welch of 622 West Tenth
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Billy Joe Welch
Miami
Fla
Charleston
S. Sel
Fireman Welch
Ada High School
Navy
James Welch
Air Corps
Cairo
Egypt
Ellis Welch
Boy struck by truck in Spiro area
Buddy Dorcy, son of Mr and Mrs Curtis Dorcy, was instantly killed when a truck struck him while crossing a road in the Flower Hill community five miles west of Spiro Oklahoma. The truck was driven by Marvin Stuhr and the incident was investigated by Sheriff Ralph Kelly and State T G B Lynn.
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Spiro
Okla
Buddy Dorcy
Curtis Dorcy
Flower Hill
Here
Marvin Stuhr
Ralph Kelly
T G. B. Lynn
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Yoshijiro Umezu
Imperial Staff
Jonathon M. Wainwright
Arthur Ernest Percival
Singapore
United Ingdom
Sir Thomas Blamey
Australia
General Wainwright
General Percival
Fale Bebee
John Pugh
Thomas Dooley
Herbert Carroll
Percival
United States Naval
Admiral Nimitz
Forrest C. Sherman
Halsey
John A. Towers
Naval Air
Theodore C
Spaatz
Kenney
Robert C. Richardson
U. S. Army
Central Pacific
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Pritain
Prig
MacAthur
Mac
H. Z. Moore
Bronze
Adan
Jep
By Spencer Davis
War Manpower Commission
Col. W. C. Braly
Verne Eddleman Braly
Sgt. Holden
Solomon Flowers
Capt
S Sgt. Mayfield
Air Medal
Welch Brothers
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