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Thursday, 19 February 2026
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.
May 03 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5800 killed.
May 03 inaugural Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar
May 03 inaugural Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
May 03 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
May 03 Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division
May 04 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
May 04 Germans surrender in Denmark and Norway.
May 05 Denmark liberated from Nazi control
May 05 Germans surrender in Norway.
May 05 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated.
May 05 Netherlands was liberated by the Canadian Forces from the Germans in second world war
May 05 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
May 05 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague.
May 06 Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
May 06 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands.
May 06 German troops north of Italy surrender to General Devers of the U.S. 7th Army division.
May 06 Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
May 06 Tarakan town and airstrip captured.
May 07 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League.
May 07 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
May 07 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe
May 07 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII.
May 07 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
May 07 Nazi Generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender
May 07 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands.
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