Evacuation of Manchukuo
When Soviet forces took the Fuqing Fortified District, the gunboat, acting jointly with a detachment of armoured launches, destroyed five permanent emplacements, a munitions depot and six mortar batteries with precise artillery.
On one occasion, Red Army pilot Jr. Lt. Miroshnichenko of the 17 IAP flying the P-63 Kingcobra shot down a Ki-43 or Ki-27 fighter while operating on the Transbaikal Front out of Mongolia.
It was the Soviet Pacific Fleet's aviation group that opened hostilities by delivering heavy strikes against the Japanese-controlled Korean ports of Yuki, Rashin and Seishin, which served as the Japanese naval bases in North Korea.
These naval air arm flew a total of 474 sorties and lost 57 aircraft, 37 to enemy action, and 55 men - 23 pilots and 32 crew members.
While the vessels were en route in the Sea of Japan, 7 miles SSW of Kumsudan, North Korea, they were spotted by a trio of Soviet Il-4T torpedo-bombers from the 49th MTAP.
This squadron was on an armed reconnaissance flight led by the Regiment's XO, Major Grigori D. Popovich, based from Romanovka airfield near Vladivostok, Siberia.
The captain of Mukahi Maru decided to return to find survivors from CD-82, but twenty minutes later his vessel was attacked by a flight of three Ilyushin torpedo bombers from the same unit.
Mukahi Maru arrived at Songjin port (now Kimchaek) in North Korea early in the morning on 17 August 1945 where the survivors of CD-82 were debarked.
The Soviet Navy of the Pacific between August 10–24 made the following actions: Japanese merchant Riuko Maru n°2 was captured by a group of Border Guard patrol boats near the mouth of river Vorovskaya.
405 POW were taken and the guard ship (torpedo boat) Metel sank a Japanese motor-sailing vessel with gunfire close to Seisin (today Chonjin, North Korea).
Patrol boat PK-31 (MO-4 class, manned by NKVD) shelled a Japanese schooner and forced it to run aground close to Maoka (Shakalin island).
The torpedo boat Metel captured the abandoned Japanese tanker Horai Maru n°14 (834 GRT), previously damaged by aircraft and grounded on 10 August.
On August 10, 1945, Junior Lieutenant Korshunov of the 50 OMRAP, flying a Yak-9 encountered and shot down a Kawanishi H6K Mavis over Rashin (later Najin) in the northeastern-most corner of Korea.
Soon after effective raids by Soviet aviators on Japanese bases, Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral I. S. Yumashev decided, by agreement with Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, to make landings in Yuki, Rashin, and Seishin.
The Pacific Fleet's intention was to make a sudden landing to capture the port's moorage line and reconnoiter enemy forces.
It was planned to subsequently land the main forces, occupy the city and hold it until the arrival of the 25th Soviet Army's troops advancing along the coastline.
The destroyer Voikov, mine-layer Argun, eight coast guards, seven minesweepers, twenty-four torpedo boats, twelve landing vessels and seven transports were involved.
Metel's artillery also destroyed an armoured train carrying combat equipment, a Japanese coastal battery, and eight enemy concrete fortifications and emplacements.
After taking Seishin, Pacific Fleet sailors under the command of Studenchikov captured two more major strongholds: the ports of Odetsin and Genzan, where 6,238 Japanese officers and men were taken prisoner.
The battle for Kotou Fortress ended on August 26; at same time Japanese forces in others frontier posts used Type 45 24 cm Howitzers against the Soviets which invaded Manchukuo in that period.
In Xinjing, on August 19 a group of SMERSH operatives and truce forces compelled General Otozo Yamada to order the surrender of his Kwantung Army.
During this short campaign in Manchuria, officers Babich and Misyurev personally led two raids conducted by a group of SMERSH operatives.
On August 9, Kwantung Army supreme commander, General Otozō Yamada, informed Puyi that the Soviet Union had violated the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact and had invaded across the Manchukuo frontier.
Although assured by General Yamada that the situation was under control, the same day Xinjing was attacked by the first air raid of the war, and Puyi witnessed explosions from bombs falling near the Wei Huang Gong palace.
On August 10, General Yamada advised Puyi that although the Army was "giving heavy resistance" the capital was being temporarily evacuated to Tonghua.
In a symbolic vote, all present approved, and Puyi stamped his seal to enact the law, ending the Manchukuo government after 13 years and five months.
The region was no longer safe due to Communist guerrillas, and the group divided; one part returned to Xinjing with ex-prime minister Zhang Jinghui for a last radio contact with Chiang Kai-shek, in an unsuccessful attempt to give over control of Manchukuo to the Kuomintang to prevent Soviet occupation.
After Germany's capitulation, Heinrich Samoilovich Lyushkov was transferred from Tokyo on 20 July 1945 to work for the Japanese Kwantung Army's Special Intelligence authorities in Manchukuo.
On 9 August 1945, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria commenced and Lyushkov vanished in the confusion of the assault, where he was reportedly last seen in a crowd at a Dalian train station.
On the last day of his life, Amakasu stayed calm, paid out the wages owed to his staff who were advised to leave Xinjing at once, wrote a suicide note in his office, and swallowed a cyanide pill.
