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    • Sep 2, 1945
    The Japanese surrender World War II on the U.S.S. Missouri. Watching nearby from the deck of the U.S.S. Bennington is teenager Jerry Clower
    Sep 6, 1945
    The Los Angeles Times reports Gene Autry has returned to California at the close of a USO tour that saw him perform for more than a million G.I.s in the Pacific theater
    Nov 12, 1945
    Columbia releases Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys' "White Cross On Okinawa"
    Nov 30, 1945
    Following the end of World War II, Fred Maddox is discharged from the military, beginning the post-war reassembly of The Maddox Brothers & Rose
    Dec 15, 1945
    Lonnie Wilson, of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, ends his enlistment with the U.S. Navy. He worked as a radar technician in the South Pacific during World War II
    Dec 29, 1945
    The Maddox Brothers & Rose return to the air on KGDM in Stockton, California, for the first time since the draft broke up the band
    Jan 21, 1946
    Skeets McDonald returns from military service, where he's served as a medic, the owner of a bronze star
    Mar 19, 1946
    The Buchanan Brothers record "Atomic Power," inspired by the World War II bombing of Hiroshima, in New York
    Apr 3, 1946
    Fiddler Tommy Jackson is discharged from the Army after two years of service. Within a year, he's playing on country sessions, ultimately dotting hits by Hank Williams, Red Foley, Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb, among others
    Jul 13, 1946
    After a three-year absence during World War II, WWVA renews its weekly broadcast of "Jamboree U.S.A." The show eventually runs more than 70 years, featuring such acts as Stoney Cooper & Wilma Lee, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Grandpa Jones



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