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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
May 16 Rabbi Weissmandl sends out pleas to bomb camp and rail lines - based on his "Auschwitz Protocol" - a 31 page report from escapees' eyewitness accounts of Rudolph Verba and Alfred Wetzler 
May 16 The inaugural of 180000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
May 17 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
May 17 Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
May 17 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
May 17 Operation Straightline Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea.
May 17 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
May 17 The Bureau of Aeronautics authorized CGAS Floyd Bennett Field to collaborate with the Sperry Gyroscope Company in making an automatic pilot installation in a HNS-1 helicopter
May 18 Expulsion of more than 200000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
May 18 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy.
May 19 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Neth
May 19 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands
May 19 Allied fleet shell Japanese positions at Sabang, north of Sumatra
May 19 German defense line in Italy collapsed
May 20 Failed assassination attempt made on Hitler by his own officers.
May 20 US Communist Party dissolves
May 21 Accidental explosion on board a LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor and the resulting fire and other explosions sink 5 LSTs and 1 other LST
May 21 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
May 22 Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France
May 23 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy.
May 23 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
May 23 During World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio begin a major breakout offensive
May 23 Operation-Buffalo Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead.
May 23 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
May 24 Enver Hoxha is recorded as becoming head of Albania anti fascists
May 24 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark.
May 24 In this year, Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) claims the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy
May 25 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
May 26 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise.
May 26 C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for S Africa), dies.
May 27 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
May 27 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China.
May 28 Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42.
May 29 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy.
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