9 Nov 1945

China
  • Destroyer USS Saufley departed the area of Shanghai, China bound for Okinawa. ww2dbase [Saufley | Shanghai | DS]
Dutch East Indies
  • The Labour Party was found in Indonesia six days after Vice President Mohammad Hatta allowed the formation of opposition parties. ww2dbase [CPC]
  • General Robert Mansergh of Indian 5th Division demanded Indonesian Communist fighters to surrender and called for all women and children to leave Surabaya; the message was delivered via airdropped leaflets. ww2dbase [Surabaya, Java | CPC]
French Indochina
  • The Democratic Republic of Vietnam provisional government released a draft of the constitution that it had been working on. Many newspapers would publish its content in the following few weeks. ww2dbase [Tonkin | CPC]
United States

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Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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