May 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide

May 08 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet

May 01 Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan

May 07 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender

May 05 Germans surrender in Norway

May 01 Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast

May 22 NSB-Führer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide

May 14 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

May 03 First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

May 16 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa

May 04 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark &Norway surrender

May 09 Channel Island, Jersey liberated from Nazis

May 02 Berlin captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2

May 13 Aircraft from fast carrier task force begin 2-day attack on Kyushu airfields, Japan

May 23 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British

May 23 Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburgm Germany

May 05 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague

May 08 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin

May 06 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands

May 17 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu

May 09 Norwegian Nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested

May 11 Wewak in New Guinea captured by Australia's 6th Division

May 07 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League

May 21 Australia Services win first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets

May 01 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

May 07 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe

May 23 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary

May 23 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz

May 20 Keith Miller scores 105 in the first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's

May 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)

May 02 Berlin surrenders to Russian troops

May 07 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22

May 01 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII

May 07 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands

May 05 Denmark liberated from Nazi control

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