FSM History

Repatriation of Japanese from Yap begins; it is completed by March 1946.

What happened

Japanese Wikipedia counts about 4,173 army and 1,400 navy men sent home from Yap between October 1945 and March 1946. After the surrender, US authorities had gathered people living around the Yap islands onto Yap Island.

Sources for the event

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