May 16 The first transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma

May 27 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)

May 30 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague

May 31 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury

May 07 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed

May 26 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim African corps vs British army

May 26 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London

May 29 Actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60

May 15 Australian troops reinforce Port Moresby

May 13 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji

May 27 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague

May 30 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

May 03 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter

May 05 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar

May 06 CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China

May 07 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

May 22 México declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan

May 11 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa

May 12 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943

May 17 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler

May 08 German summer offensive opens in Crimea

May 05 US begins rationing sugar during WWII

May 01 Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.

Jan 28 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

Jan 13 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

Jan 29 German &Italian troops occupy Benghazi

Jan 08 The birth of Stephen Hawking, English physicist/mathematician

Jan 02 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

Jan 02 The Philippine capital city of Manila falls to Japanese invaders during WWII.

Jan 04 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida

Jan 13 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast

Jan 23 Japanese capture Rabaul, New Guinea

Jan 28 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya

Jan 12 British troops reconquer Sollum

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