May 14 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

May 02 First Helicopter Rescue--Lieutenant August Kleisch, USCG, flying a HNS-1 helicopter rescued 11 Canadian airmen that were marooned in northern Labrador about 125 miles from Goose Bay

May 02 German Army in Italy surrenders

May 26 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo

May 07 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII

May 21 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

May 09 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

May 25 Arthur C.Clark suggests using relay satellites to cover the Earth

May 03 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed

May 10 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese

May 06 Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands

May 08 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam

May 25 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit

May 07 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated

May 23 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM

May 22 Barin Road, Solomons, cleared

May 09 Victory celebration at Red Square

May 11 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa

May 03 First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.

May 02 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina &Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen

May 08 In Berlin, the unconditional surrender is ratified, marking an end to twelve and a half years of the Nazi Third Reich.

May 01 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg

May 08 Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared

May 07 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender

May 02 Allies occupy Wismar

May 06 Tarakan town and airstrip captured

May 10 Russian troops occupy Prague

May 02 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

May 04 Germans surrender in Denmark and Norway.

May 06 German troops north of Italy surrender to General Devers of the U.S. 7th Army division.

May 01 Soviet army reach Rostock

May 03 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

May 19 Start of the first Victory Test Cricket between England &Australia Services

May 02 British Army enters Lubeck in the Baltic, sealing off German forces in Denmark.

May 21 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

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