January 1945
January – August 1945
Australian and British prisoners of war in Borneo sent on notorious Sandakan-Ranau death marches.
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8 May 1945
E Day (Victory in Europe) – Germany surrendered.
May–August 1945
Australian campaign against the Japanese in Borneo.
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5 July 1945
Death of Prime Minister John Curtin.
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6 August 1945
First atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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9-august 1945
Second atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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2 September 1945
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- An Australian soldier shortly after his release from Japanese captivity, 1945. [AWM negative 019195]
Allied forces arrived in Singapore and released prisoners of war.
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