


Navy PBM-5 MARINER seaplane off Darien (formerly Port Arthur), Manchuria. On 15 November 1945 Soviet fighters attacked a U.S. There were no reported losses from these encounters. Navy aircraft in Manchurian (Chinese) airspace, by then occupied by the Soviets and not the Japanese. Navy forces under the Seventh Fleet moved to accept the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea and China, there were multiple clashes between 2 and 16 September when Soviet fighters fired on U.S. enthusiasm for Soviet entry into the war had diminished considerably. This will be a future H-gram.) Between Tehran and the surrender of Japan (officially on 2 September 1945) U.S. munitions transported in neutral ships via the North Pacific during the war, with which the Japanese did not interfere. (This Soviet invasion was made possible by the massive supply of U.S. True to his word almost to the day, Stalin’s armies invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria on 9 August 1945 and rapidly crushed the Japanese Kwantung Army. Due to the high level of secrecy accorded to intelligence collection flights in the early Cold War, difficulty in finding reliable sources, and ambiguity caused by “cover stories,” this list may not be complete (and some subject to continued revision).Īt the Tehran Conference in November 1943, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin agreed to join with the Allies in the war against Japan three months after the defeat of Germany.
