May 15 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne

May 05 Gandhi freed from prison

May 16 Rabbi Weissmandl sends out pleas to bomb camp and rail lines - based on his "Auschwitz Protocol" - a 31 page report from escapees' eyewitness accounts of Rudolph Verba and Alfred Wetzler.

May 19 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands

May 18 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans

May 24 Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) wins the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy

May 14 The birth of George Lucas, Creator of the Star Wars films

May 17 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea

May 14 British troops occupy Kohima

May 14 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stülpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

May 18 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy

May 08 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death

May 17 Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

May 12 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx

May 12 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat

May 20 Failed assassination attempt made on Hitler by his own officers

May 10 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan

May 08 U-575 sinks Asphodel

May 27 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)

May 01 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails

May 12 Krim purged of Nazi troops

May 23 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front

May 29 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy

May 21 Accidental explosion on board a LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor and the resulting fire and other explosions sink 5 LSTs and 1 other LST.

May 22 Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France.

May 23 During World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio begin a major breakout offensive

May 31 Allied breakthrough in Italy

May 14 91 German bombers harass Bristol

May 27 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China

May 07 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia

May 17 The Bureau of Aeronautics authorized CGAS Floyd Bennett Field to collaborate with the Sperry Gyroscope Company in making an automatic pilot installation in a HNS-1 helicopter.

May 30 Transport NR75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

May 20 US Communist Party dissolves

May 01 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)

May 16 The first of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

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