* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

* HMS Auriga ( P419 ), a British submarine launched in 1945

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* 1945 – Martyn Lewis, British news anchor

* Blair, Alasdair M. " The British iron and steel industry since 1945 ," Journal of European Economic History Winter 1997, Vol.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* 1945 – Lemmy, British singer, bassist ( Motörhead )

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

Following the liberation of Denmark and the end of World War II, the last British troops left in September 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

* 1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.

* 1945 – Paul Newton, British musician ( Uriah Heep )

* 1945 – Simon Schama, British historian

* 1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.

In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of " The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ".

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.

While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

After World War II, between 1945 and the 29 November 1947 Partition vote, British soldiers and policemen were targeted by Irgun and Lehi.

* 1944 – 1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.

Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich published the expression, A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot ( " A language is a dialect with an army and navy ") in YIVO Bleter 25. 1, 1945, p. 13.

* The Potsdam Conference, July – August 1945 on navy. mil

During the Second World War, the battle cruiser " Jamaica " sustained an outbreak of measles on board and it was quarantined in Loch Eriboll for months, lest the contagion spread and affect the navy generally and possibly delay the Normandy landings ; and at cessation of hostilities in 1945 it saw the surrender of some 30 German U-boats.

She was decommissioned from the Royal Canadian Navy on 27 November 1945, then recommissioned by that navy as a Prestonian class frigate with pennant number 319 on 26 November 1953, and decommissioned again on 14 April 1956.

No other navy adopted the system before 1945, apart from the British Royal Navy's U-class submarines, though some submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy used separate diesel generators for low speed running.

During the Nazi regime ( 1933 – 1945 ) new combinations were issued: DR, Deutsche Reichsbahn ( German state railway ); OT, Organisation Todt ( civil and military engineering ); Pol, Deutsche Polizei ( police ); RAD, Reichsarbeitsdienst ( state labour service ); RK, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz ( Red Cross ); SS, Schutzstaffel (" protection squadron "); WH, Wehrmacht Heer ( army ); WL, Wehrmacht Luftwaffe ( air force ); WM, Wehrmacht Kriegsmarine ( navy ); WT, Wehrmacht Straßentransportdienst ( army transport service ).

He joined Bell Telephone in 1927 and served in World War II in the navy from 1941 to 1945.

The first group of 24 navy flight nurses graduated from the Navy Flight Nurse School at the Alameda Naval Air Station on 22 January 1945.

This effort came to an abrupt end when the American army and navy launched their long-awaited combined offensive again the Philippines, with a landing, first on Leyte, and then, on 18 April 1945, on Mindanao.

The largest " navy oilers " of the period, after the T3s, nearly 500 were built between 1940 and the end of 1945.

The German Deutschland class cruiser, Lützow was refloated by the Soviet navy after her scuttling in 1945 and used as a target in the Baltic Sea in 1949.

On Tuesday, March 21, 1945 began a long and perilous journey by land to Tuguegarao where a Japanese navy plane would fly the group to Japan.

The gun continued in service with the Fleet Air Arm, and its last recorded use by the navy was by 812 Squadron RNAS Barracudas in anti piracy patrols off Hong Kong in October 1945.

It has been used by the Marine Police, except for the Japanese Occupation ( 1941 – 1945 ) when the compound was used as a base by the Japanese navy.

Jean Decoux ( May 5, 1884-October 21, 1963 ) was a French navy Admiral, who was the Governor-General of French Indochina from July 1940 to 9 March 1945, representing the Vichy French government.

British navy frogman in August 1945, here equipped with a Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus | Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis ( inventor ) | Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set

Royal Navy frogman in August 1945, here equipped with a Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus | Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis ( inventor ) | Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set.