World war II chronology - June 1945

1 June 1945	The American Interim Committee recommends using the atomic bomb on Japan without warning. In Greece, a court sentences General George Tsolakoglou to death for signing a truce with Germany.
4 June 1945	The war against German submarines is officially over, and ships' lights are turned on again for the first time in six years. The convoy system of escorting merchant ships is disbanded.
5 June 1945	The European Advisory Committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany. Control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
7 June 1945	The King of Norway returns home to Oslo from London, England.
10 June 1945	Soviet President Josef Stalin gives permission for political parties to re-form in the Soviet-controlled zone of Germany.
15 June 1945	The wartime Coalition Government in England is ended. A temporary agreement is reached between Allies and Jugoslav forces regarding occupation of the Trieste area of Italy. The agreement is later called the Duino Agreement. The USSR issues three postage stamps marking the 3rd anniversary of victory over Germans before Moscow.
18 June 1945	US President Harry Truman meets with top military advisors. They recommend an invasion of Kyushu before November, with 766,000 American troops, with a decisive campaign on Honshu in 1946. Estimated American casualties in the first thirty days of Kyushu are 31,000 (later revised to 132,000).
22 June 1945	Okinawa is declared captured by the Allies.
23 June 1945	Six American CG-4A gliders and one CG-13 glider land at Camalaniugan Airstrip in Luzon, Philippines.
25 June 1945	Japanese General Headquarters announces the end of the Okinawa campaign. 1885 aircraft were lost. American General Dwight Eisenhower calls Soviet Georgi Zhukov "the man to whom the United Nations owes a greater debt" than any other military figure.