GERMANY: Berlin: The Allied occupation forces hold a victory parade.

CHINA: Major-General Claire L. Chennault resigns his command of the Sino-US Fourteenth Army Air Force in protest at plans to disband it. He is soon granted permission to retire.

Mission 251: 124 B-29s attack the Chiba urban area destroying 0.86 sq miles (2.23 sq km), 43.4% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 252: 123 B-29s hit the Akashi urban area destroying 0.81 sq miles (1.7 sq km), 57.0% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 253: 133 B-29s attack the Shimizu urban area destroying 0.71 sq miles (1.49 sq km), 50% of the city; 1 B-29 is lost.

Mission 254: 131 B-29s hit the Kofu urban area destroying 1.3 sq miles (2.7 sq km), 65% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

Mission 255: 59 B-29s drop 500-pound (227 kg) bombs on the Maruzen Oil Refinery at Wakayama; 1 other hits an alternate target.

110 Iwo Jima-based P-51s attack airfields in the Tokyo area (Kumagaya, Yamagata, and Chiba); they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 6-25 on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost.

U.S.A.: Washington: The US chiefs of staff have today authorized a special operation known as Overcast. Its purpose is to exploit "chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use" from among German scientists. The Allies have recognized that the Germans are ahead of them in many fields of science. One example is rocketry, and the V-weapon expert Wernher von Braun and his fellow researchers have already been gathered together to prevent them falling into Soviet hands. This concern applies to other scientists as well.

CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Algoma, Summerside and Ville de Quebec paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

Destroyer HMCS Hamilton departs Sydney, Nova Scotia, under tow for scrapping Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
 

Managua: Nicaragua is the first nation to ratify the United Nations Charter.