May 03 US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

May 23 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund

May 12 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

May 26 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa

May 27 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris

May 13 German occupiers confiscate all radios

May 29 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)

May 19 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

May 30 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians

May 03 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed

May 11 Naval task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians.

May 26 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

May 17 Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;

May 16 RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)

May 15 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction

May 13 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia – end of the North African campaign

May 07 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched

May 01 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta

May 08 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

May 28 British militia reaches Tito

May 16 Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7,000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30,000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6,000 have perished in flames.

May 07 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker

May 09 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia

May 08 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

May 03 Squadron Leader, Leonard Henry Trent, 487 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over Amsterdam Holland

May 01 Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.

May 20 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia

May 13 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender

May 11 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders

Jan 18 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad

Jan 30 German assault on French in Tunisia

Jan 01 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown

Jan 13 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal

Jan 18 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

Jan 05 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

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