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Saturday, 07 March 2026
Apr 25 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany 
Apr 25 RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.
Apr 25 U.S. and Red Army units meet near the Elbe River at Torgan, 75 miles south of Berlin.
Apr 25 United Nations founded at San Francisco
Apr 25 US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River.
Apr 26 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason.
Apr 27 2nd Republic of Austria forms
Apr 28 Bernito Mussolini Fascist leader and mistress captured, tried, and shot.
Apr 28 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot
Apr 28 Bernito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader is born.
Apr 28 British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg
Apr 28 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot by Italian partisans.
Apr 29 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna).
Apr 29 Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.
Apr 29 The German armed foces in Italy surrender to the allies
Apr 29 The German commanding officer in Italy surrenders to General Alexander of the U.S. 5th Army unit.
Apr 29 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
Apr 30 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio.
Apr 30 Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56.
Apr 30 Germany surrenders; end of the Third Reich
Apr 30 Munich is captured by Patch's 7th Army unit.
May 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide.
May 01 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.
May 01 Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast.
May 01 Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
May 01 Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
May 01 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms.
May 01 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
May 01 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
May 01 Soviet army reach Rostock.
May 02 Allies occupy Wismar
May 02 Berlin captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2
May 02 Berlin surrenders to Russian troops.
May 02 British Army enters Lubeck in the Baltic, sealing off German forces in Denmark.
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