05-1945

Diary for Friday, May 11, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Carrier Bunker Hill (TF 58) hit by 3 Kamikaze planes off Okinawa; 392 killed, 264 wounded. Russian Front Russians launch final […]

Diary for Thursday, May 10, 1945: Russian Front Russian troops occupy Prague. Okinawa US Marines establish bridgehead over river Asa.

Diary for Wednesday, May 9, 1945: Home Fronts Russia – Victory celebrations in Moscow: 2 million people watch spectacular fireworks display. Britain: Many Defense Regulations revoked. Russian Front German Army

Diary for Tuesday, May 8, 1945: Sea War Final German evacuation convoys from Courland (Latvia); 126 small craft. 1,420,000 people evacuated from Pomerania and East Prussia since January 25. Liberty

Diary for Monday, May 7, 1945: Politics UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF GERMANY. General JodI signs instrument of surrender at 2.41 am in schoolroom at Rheims. Western Front Allied forces occupy Emden

Diary for Sunday, May 6, 1945: Burma British 14th Army links up with ‘Dracula’ forces, north of Rangoon. Western Front Czechoslovakia: Patton occupies Skoda Works. Occupied countries Czechoslovakia: 3 Waffen-SS

Diary for Saturday, May 5, 1945: Occupied countries Czechoslovakia – The Prague Rising: Resistance attack on radio station sparks off general uprising, directed by Czech National Committee. Sea War Atlantic:

Diary for Friday, May 4, 1945: Western Front SURRENDER OF ALL GERMAN FORCES IN NORTHWEST GERMANY, HOLLAND AND DENMARK to Field Marshal Montgomery at ceremony on Lüneberg Heath (surrender effective

Diary for Thursday, May 3, 1945: Burma INDIAN TROOPS OCCUPY RANGOON without resistance. Western Front British capture Hamburg. 59 merchant ships and 600 small craft scuttled. Patton takes Braunau (Hitler‘s

Diary for Wednesday, May 2, 1945: Russian Front STALIN ANNOUNCES FALL OF BERLIN in Order of the Day No. 359: ‘Troops of the 1st Belorussian Front, commanded by Marshal Zhukov

Diary for Tuesday, May 1, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Goebbels and wife Madga poison their 6 children before committing suicide. Russians capture Charlottenburg and Schoeneburg districts. Home Fronts