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History on the 6th of April

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06 Apr 1917 WW2 The United States declared war on Germany. 
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06 Apr 1917 WW2 HMS Effingham was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard, England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Apr 1922 WW2 Edmund Herring married Mary Ranken Lyle. 
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06 Apr 1923 WW2 USS R-1 completed its participation in fleet exercises off Central America. 
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06 Apr 1923 WW2 USS R-5 completed war games in the Gulf of Fonseca in Central America. 
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06 Apr 1924 WW2 Italian Fascists won the elections in Italy with a 2/3 majority. 
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06 Apr 1930 WW2 Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. 
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06 Apr 1934 WW2 Ma Zhongying and his forces arrived at Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. 
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06 Apr 1937 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was named the principal of Gakushuin school. 
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06 Apr 1938 WW2 Battle of Tai'erzhuang: At 1530 hours, unable to defend against the Chinese counter offensive launched on the previous day, Japanese troops began to withdraw from the Jiangsu Province town, abandoning ammunition and heavy equipment in their wake. 
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06 Apr 1938 WW2 The United States recognized the German occupation of Austria. 
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06 Apr 1938 WW2 P-39 Airacobra took its first flight at Wright Field, Ohio, United States. 
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06 Apr 1939 WW2 The 30 Mar 1939 British-French-Polish agreement to mutually guarantee each others' borders was signed into a formal treaty in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 RAF Bomber Command suspended leaflet dropping missions in Germany. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank Norwegian steamer Navarra 20 miles off the Scottish coast at 0316 hours, killing 12. Finnish steamer Atlas rescued 14 survivors in a lifeboat. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 British submarines Truant and Seal departed Rosyth, Scotland for the Norwegian coast, while Tarpon was ordered to patrol the German coast near Helgoland Bight. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 RAF aircraft conducted a photo reconnaissance mission over Kiel, Germany to monitor preparations for the German invasion of Norway. German Kriegsmarine's Marine Gruppe 1 departed Cuxhaven, Germany for Narvik, Norway with 2,000 soldiers on 10 destroyers escorted by battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Marine Gruppe 2 departed Wesermünde, Germany for Trondheim, Norway with 1,700 soldiers on 4 destroyers escorted by cruiser Admiral Hipper. Both departures were made after nightfall to escape British detection. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-1 disappeared in the North Sea, and the crew of 24 were never seen again. The submarine most likely was lost to a British naval mine. 
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06 Apr 1940 WW2 Orion departed Germany on her first raiding mission. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 British 11th African Division captured the Abyssinian capital Addis Ababa unopposed; the Italian garrison originally based in Addis Ababa had withdrawn north to Gondar and Amba Alagi. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 British armed merchant cruiser HMS Comorin, carrying military personnel for British West Africa, caught fire 450 miles west of Ireland; 20 were killed, 405 survived. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-94 sank Norwegian tanker Lincoln Ellsworth 100 miles southwest of Ireland at 1700 hours with 2 torpedoes and 121 rounds from the deck gun. The entire crew survived in 2 lifeboats. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 RAF Beaufort aircraft torpedoed German battlecruiser Gneisenau at Brest, France. During this attack, Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell of No. 22 Squadron RAF Coastal Command, who scored the hit with an Mk XII torpedo, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed with the loss of the entire crew. Campbell would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his gallantry. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 British and Australian troops hurriedly evacuated Barce and Derna, Libya, falling back toward Tobruk to avoid being cut off by the advancing German troops. On the same day, Axis troops captured Msus, Libya, a major fuel and supply dump; the fuel was destroyed by the Allies before German capture. German troops besieged Mechili by 1700 hours. After dark, British generals General Neame and O'Connor began evacuating themselves to Tmimi west of Tobruk. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 A transport of 1,021 prisoners from Pawiak Prison in Warsaw, Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Famous actors Bronislaw Dardzinski, Tadeusz Hertman Kanski, Stefan Jaracz, Zbigniew Nowakowski, and Leon Schiller were among them, arrested for the murder of actor Igo Sym who collaborated with German propaganda efforts. 
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06 Apr 1941 WW2 Before dawn, German, Hungarian, and Italian forces invaded Yugoslavia from Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. German Luftwaffe swiftly destroyed Yugoslavian Air Force on the ground and devastated Belgrade with aerial bombing between 0700 and 0830 hours, killing 4,000 civilians; on the ground, German forces spearheaded by armor reached the Skopje and Veles areas in southern Yugoslavia. On the same day, German, Hungarian, and Italian forces invaded Greece from Bulgaria. Unlike the success in Yugoslavia, the invasion was slowed by Greek and British troops at the Metaxas Line. After sundown, a Luftwaffe raid on Piraeus, Greece got an unexpected boost when the ammunition ship Clan Fraser was hit, with the resulting blast doing more damage to the port facilities than the aerial bombs dropped by the Germans; the explosion also caused the sinking of 11 other freighters. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 First men of US 41st Division arrived at Melbourne, Australia. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed on Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Lorengau, Admiralty Islands. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-160 damaged US tanker Bidwell 50 kilometers east of Wilmington, North Carolina, United States at 0807 hours, killing 1 of 33 aboard; her crew would manage to repair and bring her back to port for repairs. At 1700 hours, U-571 sank Norwegian tanker Koll 250 miles northwest of Bermuda; 2 were killed, 33 survived (1 of whom would later die of exposure before being rescued). 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-4 sank US freighter Washingtonian off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean at 1600 hours. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 British destroyer HMS Havock ran aground off Cape Bon, Tunisia and was scuttled by her crew. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 At 0200 hours, B-17 bombers of US 22nd Bomb Group were launched from Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua. One hours later, the faster B-26 bombers were launched. Flying toward Rabaul, New Britain, this was the first B-17 combat mission against that location as well as the first B-26 combat mission. The B-17 bombers struck first (despite the fact that the two were supposed to be attacking at the same time), causing no damage. By the time the B-26 bombers arrived, 7 Japanese A5M fighters were already in the air, although they failed to close in on the B-26 bombers. The B-26 bombers caused very little damage. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops captured Mandalay, Burma. Off Akyab on the western coast of Burma, Japanese aircraft sank Indian sloop HMIS Indus. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Naka completed her temporary repairs at Bantam Bay, Java, Dutch East Indies and departed for Singapore. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 157 British bombers (110 Wellington, 19 Stirling, 18 Hampden, and 10 Manchester aircraft) attacked Essen, Germany; most of them were turned back by a storm. 5 aircraft were lost in this mission. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese warships sank 16 freighters southeast of India, while carrier aircraft from Ryujo conducted raids against ports Vizagapatam and Cocanada on the eastern coast of India, sinking 3 ships. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 British tug HMS West Cocker was destroyed by Axis aircraft at Malta. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft continued to attack American and Filipino targets at Bataan, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe group II./KG 27 flew a supply operation for the German troops trapped in Kholm, Russia. Three He 111 aircraft failed to return; one of which was forced to land within the pocket due to heavy damage. The crew of the downed He 111 aircraft removed the aircraft's radio and used it to help direct further supply runs. 
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06 Apr 1942 WW2 HMS Edinburgh departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested for being part of an attempt on Hitler's life. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 Axis forces fell back from Wadi Akarit towards Enfidaville, Tunisia as the British Eighth Army began linking up with US II Corps. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 British pressure in southeastern Tunisia caused Axis forces to begin falling back from the El Guettar region. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 Captured French torpedo boats Bombarde, La Pomone, and L'Iphigénie, been in Italian service since Dec 1942, were transferred on loan to the German Navy. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 George Kenney arrived at Brisbane, Australia. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: British Torpedo Squadrons commenced night flying. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her third war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Permit departed Midway Atoll, starting her eighth war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Taiho became the flagship of the Third Fleet. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Ryunosuke Kusaka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Rear Admiral Sadatoshi Tomioka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Allied leadership in the South Pacific determined that 85% of Vunapope, New Britain had been destroyed, and there was no further need to continue the aerial bombardment campaign against Vunapope. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Cod departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Japanese troops attacked the White City site of Operation Thursday in Burma. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Indian 26th Division captured Point 551 hill in Burma. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China became the forward headquarters of US XX Bomber Command. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Evacuees began to return to their homes in Gibraltar as the first group of 1,367 evacuees arrived from Britain. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Water Supply (water development project) turned over to station. Part of 125th Construction Battalion (125th SeaBees) arrived on board. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Abdul Hafiz of Indian 9th Jat Infantry Regiment led an attack by two sections of a platoon against a Japanese-held hill near Imphal, India. Despite being injured in the leg by enemy fire, he took out one machine position and led an attack on another; during the latter, he was fatally shot in the chest. He was awarded the Victoria Cross medal posthumously on 27 Jul, which was given to his widow Jugri Begum by Viceroy of India Archibald Wavell in Oct 1944 in Delhi, India. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 After dark, Japanese troops launched an attack at Kohima, India, reaching the buildings at the edge of the village before the attack was halted early in the next day. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 The United Kingdom introduced the PAYE (pay as you earn) tax system. 
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06 Apr 1944 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel to Washington DC, United States to meet with Ernest King. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cassin Young rescued survivors of two sunken US destroyers. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante stopped a Japanese fishing boat, captured the crew of three, and sank the boat by gunfire. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Caiman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending second war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Yugoslavian partisans took control of Sarajevo. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 After six days of artillery and aerial bombardment on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, the ground offensive began. 137,000 Soviet troops of the 3rd Byelorussian Front rushed into the city, supported by 530 tanks and 2,400 aircraft. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front launched its final attack on Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 1 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 230 Japanese Navy and 125 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was named the supreme Allied commander in the Pacific. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Rock made a night time surface torpedo attack on a schooner with three torepdoes; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Bush was sunk by a Japanese special attack off Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front began attacking the suburbs of Vienna, occupied Austria. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Joseph Goebbels announced that a German victory was to come during this month and only Adolf Hitler knew the moment. He obtained this information from astrology. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 James Johnson was promoted to the rank of group captain and was given command of the No. 125 Wing. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback made radio contact with the Japanese force centered around battleship Yamato; she attempted to attack by torpedoes but was driven away by escorting destroyers. She was able to report the location of the enemy fleet, however. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Prisoners of Moringen Concentration Camp who could walk were sent on a death march toward the east; those who remained would be liberated by troops of the Western Allies three days later. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 In occupied Czechoslovakia, International Red Cross representatives visited the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 US Lieutenant John G. Winant, son of the US ambassador to Britain, captured after his aircraft was shot down over München (Munich), Germany, was transferred to the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler read Wilhelm Canaris' diary in which Hitler he learned of Canaris' involvement in anti-Nazi activities. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 15,000 prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany were evacuated by German authorities. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Walter Dornberger moved his headquarters from Bad Sachsa to Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Station commemorated its 3rd anniversary. Bagley outdoor theater commissioned this date. Guests included Admiral Bagley, Gov Stainback of the Territory of Hawaii, Brig General LWT Waller, Jr., USMC, and Commodore BL Austen. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied Operation Grapeshot was ordered to commence in northern Italy. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 The sick and the older sailors aboard Yamato were disembarked at Mitajiri anchorage in Japan before the battleship departed for Operation Ten-Go. She passed through the Bungo Channel between Shikoku and Kyushu at 1830 hours, sailing west and then turning south at 2100 hours to avoid American submarine USS Threadfin. Meanwhile, USS Threadfin continued to follow Yamato's position though unable to attack. 
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06 Apr 1945 WW2 On the Island of Texel off the Dutch coast, the Georgian troops serving as volunteers with the German army mutinied. Some 246 German troops were killed in their sleep by the Georgians (most of whom had originally been captured on the Eastern Front) and battle broke out which eventually results in 800 Germans, 500 Georgian and 117 Texel civilian fatalities. The fighting ended only when the Canadians arrived on 20 May 1945, two weeks after the end of the European war. 
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