October 5th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The last Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber, a Mk VII, built by Fairey flies today. (22)
The Daily Mirror publishes a cartoon by Philip Zec, it shows a typical Hollywood tycoon in a canvas chair surrounded by scripts marked ‘All American Burma Front’ and ‘All American defence of London’. A suited Englishman is politely pointing out ‘Excuse me – but you are sitting on some graves’. Beneath the chair are a series of graves marked ‘Britain’s sacrifice for world freedom’.
JAPAN: Tokyo: Kijuro Kidehara is appointed premier.
CANADA: Frigate
HMCS Royalmount completed refit Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Destroyer HMCS Restigouche paid off.
U.S.A.: Destroyers
USS Rich and Lloyd Thomas launched.