September 21st, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweepers HMCS Blairmore, Fort William and Milltown left Devonport for Canada.
U.S.A.: US Navy Motor Torpedo Squadron 2 is decommissioned.
President Harry S. Truman on the
recommendation of Secretary of War Stimson, designates the war as World War II.
Lieutenant Audie Murphy is released from the Army as an active member and
reassigned to inactive status.
Destroyer USS Rupertus launched.
Minesweeper USS Cruise commissioned.
Destroyer William R Rush commissioned.
Georg Gärtner, a
German PoW, escapes from Camp Deming in New Mexico. He is not recaptured until
he gives himself up in 2008.