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Friday, 05 June 2026
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.
May 02 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen.
May 02 German Army in Italy surrenders.
May 02 inaugural Helicopter Rescue--Lieutenant August Kleisch, USCG, flying a HNS-1 helicopter rescued 11 Canadian airmen that were marooned in northern Labrador about 125 miles from Goose Bay
May 02 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
May 02 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders.
May 02 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
May 03 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
May 03 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg.
May 03 British troop join in Rangoon
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