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Sunday, 21 June 2026
May 06 British inaugural army opens assault on Tunis 
May 07 Tunis, in North Africa, captured by WW2 Allied forces.
May 08 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass"
May 08 In this year, 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet claims in 1:57.4
May 08 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
May 09 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
May 09 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
May 10 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 11 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
May 11 Naval task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians.
May 11 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured).
May 12 Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48.
May 12 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII).
May 12 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
May 12 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
May 13 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia - end of the North African campaign.
May 13 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel.
May 13 German and Italian forces in Africa surrender
May 13 German occupiers confiscate all radios.
May 14 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived
May 14 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
May 15 Halifax bombers sinks U-463.
May 15 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
May 16 -17th] RAF bombs Möhne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
May 16 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
May 16 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
May 16 Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6000 have perished in flames
May 17 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
May 17 Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;.
May 18 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea.
May 18 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in an address to the U S Congress, pledges full support in the war against Japan
May 19 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
May 19 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan.
May 20 French, British and US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia.
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