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Blackburn Shark torpedo bomber, 20 March 1936. It first flew on 24 August 1933 and went into service with the Fleet Air Arm, Royal Canadian Air Force, Portuguese Navy, and the British Air Observers' School, but was already obsolescent by 1937 and in the following year, replacement by the Fairey Swordfish began.

 
At 11pm Trans-Baikal (UTC+10) time on 8 August 1945, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov informed Japanese ambassador Naotake Satō that the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan, and that from 9 August the Soviet government would consider itself to be at war with Japan.[17] At one minute past midnight Trans-Baikal time on 9 August 1945, the Soviets commenced their invasion simultaneously on three fronts to the east, west and north of Manchuria:
 
... the IJA was finished on the mainland, a Manchurian Army of near 900,000 (I have understated this # previously as 70,000) had been stripped of much of its resources for operation Ichigo - the big successful push in 1944 that took the south from the B-29 bases and secured interior lines of communication/supply further west. The IJA made this commitment based on Russo-Japanese agreement .... in the end it had become Stalin's Theatre - as PuppetMaster.
Korea says "Welcome the US Army" .... indeed.
Till today
 
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Did those Japanese troops surrender before the IJA agreed to comply with the Potsdam Agreement?
 
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