September 6th, 1945 (THURSDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: A de Havilland Mosquito PR 34, RG 241, of No. 540 Squadron, makes the fastest east to west crossing of the Atlantic by flying from St. Mawgan in Cornwall to Gander, Newfoundland in seven hours. (22)
JAPAN: The USN's Force 11 (Vice Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) sails from Tokyo Bay for the west coast of the U.S.A.
GUAM: USS PENNSYLVANIA arrives Apra Harbor and enters drydock where a large steel patch is welded over the torpedo hole suffered in the attack of August 12. Repairs will be made to permit her to return to the United States under her own power. (Randall Steigner)
MARSHALL ISLANDS: The Japanese surrender Maleolap Atoll in ceremony on board the destroyer escort USS Wingfield (DE-194).
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: The Japanese surrender to Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Sturdee, General Officer Commanding First Australian Army, aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Glory (62) off New Britain Island. Upon inspection, it is found that the Japanese forces at Rabaul are greater than Allied intelligence forecast. Instead of 55,000 soldiers and sailors, there are over 89,000 personnel and another 12,400 on New Ireland Island. The town of Rabaul is in ruins and overgrown with jungle and there are 31 sunken ships in the harbor. Japanese defenses are numerous with the hills honeycombed with a system of tunnels more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) in length.
CANADA: The RCAF "Tiger Force" is ordered to cease flying. "Tiger Force" consisted of eight RCAF bomber squadrons equipped with Canadian-built Avro Lancaster Mk Xs that were intended to be shipped to Okinawa and join USAAF units in bombing Japan prior to the invasion.
In Montreal, Quebec, Fred Rose is arrested for communicating official secrets to the U.S.S.R.; he will be sentenced to six years in the penitentiary for espionage. Rose is a Communist union organizer, politician, who is elected as a Member of Parliament for Montreal-Cartier in a 1943 by-election.
U.S.A.: President Harry S. Truman lays out an economic recovery plan to Congress that would address post-War housing and employment needs.