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To: NOW who wrote (16308)	4/3/2003 7:40:36 PM
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May 5th 1945 - USAF attack Japanese air bases. 14th - 2,500 tons of incendiary bombs dropped on Nagoya by 472 B29 bombers. 20 Japanese fighter planes shot down. 15th - US Forces launch attacks in Philippines. Royal Navy in battle with Japanese in Malacca Straits. 22nd - Okinawa US Troops capture Conocal Hill and enter Yonabaru. Himmler captured near Hamburg. Took cyanide. 23rd - UK coalition government ceases to exist. Socialists who have worked so well in the coalition during the war refuse Churchill's plea to extend it until the war against Japan is finished. Elections arranged for July 5th. US attacks brings shipping at Yokohama to a standstill. June 13th - Russia Invades Japanese held Manchuria as agreed with the Allies. Okinawa resistance at Oruku ends. Ribbentrop captured by the British. 15th - Ban on troops fraternising is lifted. 16th - 17th - China. Japanese troops withdraw from between Yellow and Yangstze Rivers. 18th - 30,000 British troops demobilised a week. 21st - Philippines Aparri, the last Japanese port on Luzon falls to the US. Belgium asks Leopold III to abdicate for his "grave and unpardonable errors". After 85 days of fearful fighting Okinawa falls to US forces. 12,000 Americans and 110,000 Japanese lost their lives. Allies decide on Nuremburg for war crimes trials. 22nd - Japanese surrender Tarakan. The appalling plight that Allied Prisoners of War were discovered July 4th - Mountbatten ordered to launch operation Zipper - the liberation of Malaya in August. General MacArthur announces the liberation of the Philippines. 14th - Italy declares war on Japan. 18th - Churchill and Truman arrive for Big Three talks at Potsdam. Truman informs Churchill about the 16th July atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico. 21st - Truman and Churchill agree to drop atomic bomb on Japan if they do not surrender. 28th - Japanese reject demand for unconditional surrender. Leaflets dropped on Japan demanding its surrender and warning the people to 'Flee or perish' if their leaders refused. Truman orders A bomb to be dropped on Japan as soon as possible after the 3rd August. 26th - Churchill loses the election. Labour wins a landslide election victory and Attlee becomes Prime Minister. In the hour of his defeat Churchill - though greatly upset - he nonetheless accepted the verdict of the electorate with grace. 31st - Big Three at Potsdam fall out over Russian and Polish plans. August 1945 The invasion and defeat of Japan - which was thousands of miles from the Allies sources of supply - presented phenomenal logistical problems. There could be no guarantee of success and the loss of life on both sides would have been incredible - far far greater than those lives sacrificed by the Japanese in failing to surrender before the atom bombs were dropped. The Japanese were warned in many leaflet raids what would happen if they did not surrender - they have only themselves to blame for being atom bombed. 6th - Atomic bomb devastates Hiroshima. 8th - Russia declares war on Japan. 10th - Russian troops advance 120 miles in two days in Manchuria. 9th - Nagasaki destroyed by second A Bomb. 14th - Japan surrenders. churchill-society-london.org.uk

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