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Sunday, 22 February 2026
May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life). 
May 04 The Battle of the Coral Sea, a WWII clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began today.
May 05 Battle of Coral Sea
May 05 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar.
May 05 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
May 06 CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China.
May 06 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies.
May 07 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
May 07 Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
May 07 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
May 08 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea.
May 08 Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack
May 08 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
May 08 HMS OLYMPUS, sunk off Malta Grand Harbour - German E-boat-laid mines. On passage with personnel from Malta to Gibraltar, including many of the crews of bombed submarines P.36 and P.39; few survivors.
May 09 In this year, 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab claims in 1:57.
May 10 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74.
May 11 German submarine U-S53 torpedoes British steamer Nicoya and Dutch ship Leno near Anticosti Island, Quebec
May 11 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa.
May 12 1500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz.
May 12 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine.
May 12 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River.
May 12 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943.
May 13 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
May 13 Helicopter makes its inaugural cross-country flight
May 13 Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
May 13 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji
May 14 The Women's Auxilliary Army Corps (WACS) is established
May 14 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
May 14 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded.
May 15 Australian troops reinforce Port Moresby
May 15 Gasoline inaugural rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
May 15 Movement of POWs ("A Force") to Thailand from Singapore for work on the Burma-Thailand Railway
May 15 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2000 Dutch officers.
May 16 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
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