MILI ISLAND
By-passed Garrison Surrenders GUAM. August 22. The Navy has announced that the commander of the small Japanese garrison on Mill Island in the Marshalls, bypassed IX months ago, surrendered to-day aboard a United Slates destroyer-escort. American forces will occupy Mill within a few days. It. is the first instance of t he capitulation of a bypassed garrison since the Japanese surrender
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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63MILI ISLAND Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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