Repatriation of 14,173 army and 24,524 navy personnel from Truk to Uraga begins, running to 13 February 1946.

What happened

Truk had been the largest Japanese military concentration in today’s FSM. Its commanders surrendered aboard USS Portland on 2 September 1945, and the troops waited weeks for ships home. These figures come from Japanese Wikipedia, citing a 2005 chronology of the war.