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Wednesday, 08 April 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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