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History on the 1st of May

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01 May 1914 WW2 Douglas MacArthur arrived at Veracruz, Mexico as a member of the headquarters staff. 
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01 May 1915 WW2 General Baron Teibi Ando was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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01 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Counter-attack at Eski Hissarlik
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01 May 1916 WW2 Oklahoma was commissioned into service. 
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01 May 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was transferred to England. 
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01 May 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold began a period of various staff positions in Washington DC, United States. 
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01 May 1919 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of major. 
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01 May 1920 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at New York City, New York, United States. 
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01 May 1924 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann. 
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01 May 1924 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was transferred out of cruiser Tama. 
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01 May 1925 WW2 Adolf Hitler received a letter notifying him that he had failed to file tax in 1924 and in the first quarter of 1925. 
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01 May 1925 WW2 Iwane Matsui was named the head of the 2nd Bureau of the Japanese Army General Staff. 
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01 May 1925 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was attached to the supply section of the Japanese Army Cavalry Command. 
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01 May 1926 WW2 In Britain the mine owners, following the recommendations of the Samuel commission demanded that workers accept longer hours and a reduction in wages of between 10 and 25%. 
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01 May 1926 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto arrived in Nanjing, China as a military attaché. 
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01 May 1928 WW2 In the United Kingdom, the train Flying Scotsman successfully ran the 392 miles between Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England without stopping, a record at the time for a scheduled rail service. 
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01 May 1931 WW2 USS R-1 was decommissioned from service. 
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01 May 1931 WW2 President Hoover officially opened the Empire State Building in New York City in the United States. 
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01 May 1933 WW2 In Germany the NSDAP organisation, unable to cope with the 850,000 new requests for membership, called a moratorium on recruitment until May 1937, except for those already in affiliated organisations (SA, SS, Hitler Youth etc.). 
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01 May 1933 WW2 The noted academic, Carl Schmitt, Professor of Law at Berlin University in Germany, joined the National Socialist Party. It was through his influence that so many German academics and lawyers would be exulted to accept the new order. 
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01 May 1934 WW2 During this month, SS leader Theodor Eicke was given the task by Heinrich Himmler to reorganize all concentration camps, using Eicke's former direct responsiblity, Dachu Concentration Camp, as a model. 
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01 May 1935 WW2 A mistake by the US Government Printing Office, which leaked the construction of three air bases in northern United States per War Plan Red in preparation of war against the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, was published on the front page of the New York Times. War Plan Red was to be officially terminated in 1939. 
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01 May 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began two months of operations off Portugal. 
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01 May 1936 WW2 In Germany the NSDAP introduced ambitious new plans for controlling the population. Key among these were the dividing of the population into blocks of 40 to 60 households under local controllers (not necessarily a party member) responsible for the political outlook, education and morale of every inhabitant, member or not. 
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01 May 1937 WW2 Remy Van Lierde began his training as a pilot. 
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01 May 1937 WW2 Dunkerque was commissioned into service. 
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01 May 1937 WW2 Adolf Hitler declared that all German children were to be raised as loyal Nazi Germans. 
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01 May 1937 WW2 Destroyer Kashi was transferred to the Manchukuo Navy and was renamed Haiwei and would serve as Manchukuo's flag ship. 
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01 May 1938 WW2 Spanish leader Dr. Negrin tried to sue for peace but General Franco demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender in the Spanish Civil War. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 US Marine Corps aviation units Aircraft One and Aircraft Two were renamed 1st and 2nd Marine Aircraft Group, respectively. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 Admiral Harry E. Yarnell visited USS Astoria in the morning; in the afternoon, the cruiser departed Shanghai, China for Hong Kong. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 Chiang Kaishek ordered Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China to be taken back by 5 May 1939. He also relieved General Duan Lan of his duties for ordering his 79th Division to fall back, while General He Ping, who had also fallen back with his Chinese 16th Division, was told to redeem himself. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 The German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was formed with two groups; Major General Wilhelm S¸ssmann was named its first commanding officer. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was promoted to the rank of Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter. 
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01 May 1939 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Post Office of Rhinebeck, New York, United States. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Roosevelt urged Italy to stay out of the European War; Mussolini's response noted that Germany could not be defeated. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Swiss intelligence learned of a potential attack on France to be launched soon and informed the French military attaché, who promptly reported this to Paris. Meanwhile in Germany, Adolf Hitler pushed the invasion decision date to 5 May 1940. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Orion crossed the Equator. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was promoted to the rank of Unterscharführer. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government established the provisional government at Tromsø, Norway. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Japanese troops began to march toward Yichang, Hubei Province, China. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Norwegian troops in Lillehammer surrendered. En route to Åndalsnes, Norway for evacuation, the train carrying troops of the British 15th Brigade crashed into a bomb crater at 0115 hours, killing 8 and wounding 30; the surviving troops marched 17 miles through deep snow, arriving at Åndalsnes at 0900 hours. British Vice Admiral Layton's task force consisted of cruisers Manchester and Birmingham and destroyers Inglefield, Diana, and Delight arrived at Åndalsnes, Norway to evacuate the British 148th and 15th Brigades; they embarked 5,084 men overnight and departed at 0200 hours on the next day. Joining the British evacuation was Norwegian General Ruge, who departed Åndalsnes aboard British destroyer HMS Diana to join the Norwegian government at Tromsø. Four British destroyers arrived at Namsos to evacuate the British 146th Brigade and other Allied troops in the area; heavy fog delayed the operation, and only 850 French troops were embarked overnight. In the Kattegat, British submarine HMS Narwhal fired six torpedoes at a German merchant convoy carrying parts of 2nd Gebirgsjager Division to Norway; German steamer Buenos Aires was hit by one of the torpedoes and sank, killing 62 men and 240 horses; another transport, Bahia Castillo, was hit but did not sink, killing 10 men and 26 horses. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 Rudolf Höss was appointed the first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in German-occupied Poland. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 The US Navy established the Naval Air Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico as a part of the Tenth Naval District. The first commanding officer of the base was Captain Virgil C. Griffin, Jr. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 British government passed a trade union agreement which allowed women to work in munitions factories. 
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01 May 1940 WW2 A German bomber crashed in Essex, England, United Kingdom, killing the crew and two civilians, wounding a further 150 people. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 British ocean boarding vessel HMS Cavina captured Italian tanker Sangro 400 miles north of the Azores islands. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 At 2215 hours, German bombers began attacking Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; it was to be the first of seven consecutive nightly bombings on the city. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 German tanks attacked Tobruk, Libya at 0715 hours; slowed by a minefield, they were attacked by 2-pounder anti-tank guns and then by British tanks; the Germans lost 12 tanks in this engagement while the British lost 4. In the evening, Australian 2/48th Battalion conducted a counterattack but it was repulsed with heavy casualties. 300 kilometers to the west, RAF aircraft attacked Benghazi and sank an Italian freighter. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Kapitän zur See Friedrich Hüffmeier took command of cruiser Köln. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Iraqi forces overlooking RAF Habbaniya grew to 9,000 men, 50 artillery pieces, 12 armored cars, and a few light tanks. They demanded the airfield to cease flight operations, but the local RAF commander ignored the threat, a decision backed by Winston Churchill. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Upholder sank freighters Arcturus and Leverkusen off Kerkenah island, Tunisia. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-552 sank British passenger liner Nerissa 100 miles north of Ireland at 0027 hours; 207 were killed, 83 survived. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank British ship Samsø 200 miles off Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 1834 hours. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp, formerly a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, became an independent camp. It was located in Groß-Rosen, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Rogoznica, Poland). 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Generalleutnant August Krakau succeeded Robert Martinek as the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 The Marine Barracks of New River, North Carolina, United States was established with Lieutenant Colonel William P. T. Hill in command. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 HMS Eagle was ordered to sail for Durban, South Africa. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Viceroy of Italian East Africa Duke of Aosta and 7,000 troops were trapped at Amba Alagi, Abyssinia by Indian 5th Indivision to the north and South African 1st Brigade in the south. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Kasuga Maru began conversion into an escort carrier at Sasebo, Japan. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Kaga entered the drydocks at Sasebo, Japan. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down his 10th and 11th kills, two British Hurricane fighters, while escorting German Stuka dive bombers to Tobruk, Libya. 
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01 May 1941 WW2 HMS Jersey hit a mine in Valetta, Malta, and later sank during a German air raid. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Eleven Japanese transports departed Rabaul, New Britain for the invasion of Port Moresby, Australian Papua; they were escorted by seven cruisers and one light carrier; on the same day, Type 1 and Type 6 land attack aircraft of Genzan Air Group arrived at Rabaul for future use with the Port Moresby invasion. On the same day, three B-26 Marauder bombers of US 22nd Bomb Group struck Rabaul, causing minor damage to an airfield. Tulagi in the Solomon Islands, another target of the Japanese offensive operation, was bombed by Japanese aircraft, destroying one Australian PBY Catalina aircraft. Near the New Hebrides islands, US Navy Task Force 11 (containing carrier Lexington) and Task Force 17 (containing carrier Yorktown) made rendezvous. At Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Joseph Rochefort furnished a report for Chester Nimitz and Ernest King that noted Port Moresby as the likely Japanese target, northern Australia was not being targeted for now, and Japanese reconnaissance operations seemed to be targeting Hawaiian Islands and Aleutian Islands. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 The Japanese code book change, originally set to take place on this date, was delayed. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 HMS King George V, in thick Atlantic fog, accidentally rammed and sank HMS Punjabi 165 miles northeast of Iceland at 1545 hours. HMS Punjabi was broken in half, with the stern sinking, depth charges exploding meanwhile, killing 49. The forward piece remained afloat for some time, allowing 169 people to be taken off. An additional 40 survivors were picked from the sea. HMS King George V suffered a 40-foot gash in the bow, forcing her to leave her convoy escort station to sail for Britain for repairs. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Kapitän zur See Martin Balzer took command of cruiser Köln. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps 8th Defense Battalion arrived at Wallis Island from Tutuila, American Samoa. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 US Task Force 17 was established under command of Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher to operate in the Coral Sea. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Slim met with Alexander at Monywa, Burma. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-752 sank Norwegian ship Bidevind 75 miles southeast of New York, United States at 0543 hours; all 36 aboard survived. 370 miles northeast of Bermuda, U-69 attacked Canadian sailing boat James E. Newsom on the surface with her deck gun at 1728 hours, forcing the crew of 9 to abandon ship. At 2046 hours, U-162 sank Brazilian ship Parnahyba near Trinidad; 7 were killed, 65 survived. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 USS Triton sank Japanese auxiliary transport Calcutta Maru in the western Pacific Ocean east of China at 1645 hours. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 USS Grenadier, mistaking Soviet ship Angarstroy for a Japanese ship, sank her in the Pacific Ocean; 60 survived and were rescued by Japanese ship Kayo Maru. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 A Hudson bomber of British No. 233 Squadron based at Gibraltar damaged German submarine U-573 with depth charges 40 miles northwest of Ténès, Algeria at 1556 hours. The British dispatches destroyers HMS Wishart and HMS Wrestler to finish off the submarine, while the Germans dispatched U-74 and U-375 and the Italians dispatched submarines Emo and Mocenigo to assist. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Four Ju 88 aircraft attacked Allied convoy QP-11 at 0540 hours 150 miles southeast of Bear Island, Norway; all torpedoes missed. At 1345 hours, German destroyers Z7 Hermann Schoemann, Z24, and Z25 were sighted; the first round of the exchange of torpedoes by QP-11 and the Allied escorts at 1407 hours all missed, but a shortly after British destroyer HMS Amazon was hit by gunfire and Russian freighter Tsiolkovsky was sunk by torpedo. Through 1742 hours, the German destroyed attempted to close in five more times, but they were not successful; they broke off after 1742 hours to pursue HMS Edinburgh in the direction of Murmansk, Russia. Elsewhere, six German Ju 88 bombers attacked Allied convoy PQ-15 west of Norway at 2200 hours without success, losing one aircraft in the process. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 USS Washington suffered slight damage northeast of Iceland during the accident which saw HMS King George V ramming HMS Punjabi, detonating Punjabi's depth charges. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Japanese 18th Infantry Division captured Mandalay, Burma. 300 kilometers the northeast, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Hsenwi. 50 miles west of Mandalay, Japanese troops blocked the British retreat at Monywa on the Chindwin River and then attacked from the rear by surprise, capturing the headquarters of the 1st Burma Division. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands with Zuikaku to participate in Operation MO. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 In Berlin, the German High Command recorded that units on the Eastern Front were currently 308,000 men understrength. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Eastern Front Medal. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Chester Nimitz departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and later in the day arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Captain Takayanagi, commanding officer of battleship Yamato, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. During this month, battleship Yamato would remain in the Inland Sea in Japan to conduct gunnery practice and to host Admiral Yamamoto and other officers for Midway war games. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille received his citation of promotion to the rank of Oberleunant. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, Corregidor was subjected to heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, while Japanese troops defeated the Filipino 61st Infantry Regiment on the southern island of Mindanao. 
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01 May 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 The International Medical Commission completed its investigation on the Katyn Massacre, concluding that the Soviet Union was responsible for the atrocity. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 US troops captured Hill 609 in Tunisia. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 The Personnel Department was established to replace the Adjutant and Inspector's Department of the US Marine Corps headquarters. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was named the commanding officer of German 117th Jäger Division. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 The 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division and the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (converted from the Constantine temporary Division), the first two formations of Charles de Gaulle's revitalised French Army, were created. They would be committed to Italy at the end of November and December respectively. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 From Brisbane, Australia, George Kenney cabled Henry Arnold, noting that very few aircraft were being sent to the Southwest Pacific. Arnold would promise him enough fighters to form a new fighter group, but he could spare no additional personnel. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Command Center - bombproof - usably complete. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Commander Junio Valerio Borghese took over command of 10th MAS Flotilla at Muggiano, Italy, which was in actuality a special forces unit for the Italian Navy. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Irako arrived at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese freighter off Japan, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired; she survived a heavy depth charge counterattack. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 Basil Brooke (later 1st Viscount Brookeborough) became Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. 
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01 May 1943 WW2 CV-14 was renamed USS Ticonderoga. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Palau and departed later on the same day. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 US Navy completed a two-day raid on Truk, which destroyed 120 Japanese aircraft. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 The first Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference began and would last until 16 May. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts were in attendance. They would agree to support the Moscow Declaration and reached agreement regarding their respective roles in the overall Allied war effort. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 The Organizational Division of the German Prisoner of War Office reported that a total of 5,165,381 Soviet prisoners were in German captivity. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Submarine Macabi was laid down. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Joseph Stalin justified taking the war into German borders by noting "ur tasks cannot be restricted by pushing the enemy out of our Motherland.... We must free our brothers from German Europe who have been conquered by Hitler's Germany." 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Yamato arrived at Lingga, Dutch East Indies south of Singapore. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Lingga, Dutch East Indies. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 British Squadron Leader Maurice Southgate, whose task it was to coordinate the various Marquis groups between the Loire River and the Pyrenees mountains, was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris, France. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops attacked Crete West hill near Imphal, India. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Italian Navy formed Divisione Decima (10th Division) with theoretical strength of 11 battalions; in actuality only 4 were operational at this time. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 The newly formed Italian parachute regiment formally became a part of the Italian Air Force. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov received the Medal for the Defense of Moscow. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 The Yugoslavian partisan leader Tito's mission arrived in London, England, United Kingdom to discuss cooperation with the Allies and gained official recognition. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 While in Britain, Robert Johnson was promoted to the rank of major. 
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01 May 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Key West, Florida, United States. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Goebbels passed away. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 US Third Army arrived on the pre-war German-Austrian border. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 The US 15th Air Force conducted its final bombing mission in Italy. Meanwhile, German troops in Italy surrendered in accordance with secret negotiations, followed by an announcement for the cessation of hostilities. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 US Ninth and British Second Armies combined their bridgeheads across the Elbe River in northern Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 New Zealand troops captured Udina and linked up with Yugoslavian partisans near Trieste after the Yugoslavian forces beat the British 8th Army in capturing Trieste. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Dönitz took his new post in accordance with Hitler's will and immediately ordered the strongest resistance in the east, as tens of thousands of civilians struggled to stay ahead of oncoming Soviet forces. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Japanese troops began to withdraw from southern China. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force arrived in the Philippine Islands. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Allied forces captured German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German concentration camp authorities ordered the execution of Kurt Schuschnigg. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill damaged Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka, which was grounded to prevent sinking. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese destroyer off Japan; all six torpedoes missed. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Pilots of US Navy squadron VF-66, flying FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters, flew qualifying missions from USS Ranger; two aircraft were damaged while landing. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 George Brett was reactivated from the US Army retired list. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Indian 50th Parachute Regiment was dropped near Rangoon, Burma as the spearhead to Operation Dracula. Meanwhile, determined to preempt Operation Dracula in the conquest of Rangoon, William Slim carelessly attempted to enter the city himself by air; his aircraft was damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and the American pilot, Captain Robert Fullerton, sustained injuries in his leg so severe that it had to be amputated later. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. This would be the last submarine-transport to arrive at Truk in the Pacific War. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German 12.Armee retreated from Berlin, Germany to the Elbe River and attempted to begin negotiations with US troops. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Hans Krebs informed Vasily Chuikov of Adolf Hitler's suicide, thus Chuikov became the first Soviet general to learn of this news. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Reichssicherhetsdienst (RSD) Gruppe commander Oberführer Johann Rattenhuber in Berlin, Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 Artur Axmann departed from Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 German pilot Willi Kriessmann ferried an Ar 234 jet bomber to German Luftwaffe bomber group Kampfgeschwader 76. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 May 1945 WW2 British Wing Commander James Nicholson, the only fighter pilot during the war to be awarded the Victoria Cross (during the Battle of Britain), was killed when the Liberator bomber in which he was flying as an observer suffered an engine fire and crashed into the sea off Calcutta, India. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 USS Rock was decommissioned from service and was placed into the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 USS Brill began a period of repair at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 Prince Yasuhiko was interrogated at the office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Tokyo, Japan. 
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01 May 1947 WW2 Light carrier Hosho's scrapping was completed by Hitachi Zosen, Sakurajima, Japan. 
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01 May 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco, California, United States for inactivation. 
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01 May 1948 WW2 Former Japanese destroyer Yukikaze was commissioned into the Navy of the Republic of China as Tang Yan. 
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