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History on the 2nd of May

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02 May 1916 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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02 May 1918 WW2 The Supreme War Council proposed that those Czech Legion units that have not yet made their way to Vladivostok, Russia should instead turn northwards to link up with the Allied forces from Archangel to establish a new eastern front line. The proposal was put to the Bolshevik authorities in Moscow by the French Military Mission and after some discussion Trotsky gave his consent. 
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02 May 1924 WW2 A Douglas DT-2 torpedo bomber was launched from the carrier USS Langley, while the ship was at anchor in Pensacola Bay, Florida, United States. 
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02 May 1925 WW2 Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States from the Philippine Islands to take command of the IV Corps Area based at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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02 May 1927 WW2 Ira Eaker completed the 35,200 km Pan American Goodwill Flight around South America, winning the one of the Mackay Trophies. 
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02 May 1929 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. 
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02 May 1932 WW2 USS S-31 departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 May 1932 WW2 USS S-35 departed the Philippine Islands for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii to join the Pacific Fleet. 
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02 May 1933 WW2 Hitler's Government dissolved the main Trade Union association, The German Free Trade Unions, occupied all its offices with the help of the SA and sequestrated its funds. 
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02 May 1933 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt established the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which closely managed agricultural production in the United States, which included the policy of destroying excess farm supply to control prices. 
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02 May 1935 WW2 With the announcement that Germany was rearming, and the failure of a French plan to create an alliance of Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union, France concluded a separate alliance with the Soviet Union. 
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02 May 1935 WW2 Aging Australian cruiser HMAS Brisbane was recommissioned for the purpose of transferring a crew to Britain for operating the future cruiser HMAS Sydney (currently HMS Phaeton). Brisbane departed for Britain later on this day. 
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02 May 1937 WW2 Prince Nagahisa's son Prince Michihisa was born. 
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02 May 1939 WW2 Chinese troops launched a second counterattack on Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, but all conquered positions would be retaken by the Japanese by the end of the day. 
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02 May 1939 WW2 USS Enterprise departed the Panama Canal Zone for California, United States. 
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02 May 1939 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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02 May 1940 WW2 German forces reached Aandalesnes, Norway. In southern Norway, British troops began to withdraw, but continued to fight in the north to interrupt the flow of iron to Germany. British Vice Admiral John Cunningham arrived in Namsos, Norway with 3 cruisers, 5 destroyers, and 3 transports to aid with the evacuation of the British 146th Brigade; German aircraft attempted to interfere, damaging HMS Maori with a near miss, killing 5 and wounding 18; through the end of the night, 5,350 men were embarked. 
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02 May 1940 WW2 Mussolini offered that Italy would not go to war with the United States if the United States would stay out of Europe. 
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02 May 1940 WW2 93 German combat divisions prepared to invade France and the Low Countries. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 Sandstorms at Tobruk, Libya limited the offensive capabilities of German tanks on this date. 100 kilometers to the west, British gunboat HMS Ladybird bombarded Axis positions at Derna. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 British ship Parracombe, with 21 crated Hurricane fighters on board for Malta, hit a mine and sank off Cape Bon, Tunisia. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 At 0500 hours, during Muslim morning prayers, 33 British aircraft from RAF Habbaniya and 8 Wellington bombers from RAF Shaibah attacked the Iraqi artillery positions which had been threatening RAF Habbaniya for the past two days. Iraq troops responded by shelling RAF Habbaniya, killing 13 and wounding 29. Elsewhere, RAF aircraft attacked the Rashid airfield near Baghdad, Iraq, destroying 22 aircraft on the ground. The RAF lost 5 aircraft in Iraq on this date. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 After sundown, German bombers attacked Liverpool, England, United Kingdom for the second consecutive night. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Alberic and destroyer HMS St. Albans collided in Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Britain. HMT Alberic sank with the loss of 13 crew. The HMS St. Albans sailed to Southampton, England, United Kingdom for repairs to her bow. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 British aircraft sank German anti-submarine trawler Vp 808 off the island of Borkum near the Dutch-German border. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 British destroyer HMS Jersey hit a mine and sank off Grand Harbour, Malta, killing 35 and wounding 48. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 A German memorandum noted that the plan to remove large quantities of food out of Eastern Europe to feed German civilians and military personnel would likely result in the starvation of millions of Eastern Europeans especially through the winter. The plan would continue to be implemented, however. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was promoted to the rank of Unteroffizier while stationed in Libya. 
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02 May 1941 WW2 The British Royal Navy commissioned convoy escort ship HMS Lulworth, a former US Coast Guard Cutter, into service at New York, United States. She was manned by former crew members of battleship HMS Resolution, which was under repair in the US at the time. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Roosevelt extended the Lend-Lease Act to include Iraq and Iran. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Goebbels noted in his diary that the term "Baedecker attacks", named after a popular travel guide and used here to suggest that the German bombers targeted British cultural centers, should be banned by his propaganda ministry. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Already-damaged HMS Edinburgh, carrying £5,000,000 worth of Soviet gold meant as down payment for US weapons and other war supplies, was spotted by German destroyers Z7 Hermann Schoemann, Z24, and Z25 at 0630 hours. In the ensuing engagement, Edinburgh hit Z7 while destroyer HMS Forester was hit by Z7's torpedo and destroyer HMS Foresight was hit by shellfire. Z7 would be scuttled at 0830 hours. HMS Edinburgh suffered a torpedo hit which killed 57. Now structurally unsound, she was scuttled by HMS Harrier and HMS Foresight at 0900 hours. The gold also went to the bottom of the Barents Sea. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-573, seriously damaged by aerial depth charges from a British Hudson aircraft on the previous day, arrived at Cartagena, Spain. The submarine and her crew were interned by the Spanish authorities. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-74, dispatched to rescue the damaged submarine U-573, was attacked and sunk by British destroyers HMS Wishart and HMS Wrestler 60 miles southeast of Cartagena, Spain; all 47 aboard were killed. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 USS Drum sank Japanese seaplane carrier Mizuho 90 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan at 0416 hours; 101 were killed, 472 survived. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 USS Trout sank Japanese freighter Uzan Maru 134 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 British destroyer HMS St Albans and minesweeper HMS Seagull, while escorting Allied convoy PQ-15, attacked an ASDIC contact 200 miles northwest of Tromsø, Norway at 1950 hours. As the target surfaced, she turned out to be Polish submarine Jastrzab, which suffered serious damage and 5 killed. The submarine was written off and scuttled shortly after the 35 survivors were taken off. On the same day, German torpedo bombers attacked PQ-15, sinking freighters Cape Corso, Jutland, and Botavon. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-402 sank US armed yacht Cythera 115 miles east of Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States, killing 69 of 71 aboard; the two survivors were captured by U-402 and taken to Germany as prisoners of war. During the day, the 36 survivors of Norwegian ship Bidevind, sunk by German submarine U-752 on the previous day off New York, United States, reached the US Coast Guard station near Toms River, New Jersey, United States by lifeboat. After sundown, at 2253 hours, U-66 sank Norwegian tanker Sandar 40 miles north of Trinidad; 3 were killed, 34 survived. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 7 B-26 Marauder bombers from Port Moresby, Australian Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Port Moresby, Australian Papua. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 The Japanese launched another aerial bombardment against the Australian seaplane base at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. Deducing that an invasion of coming soon, the Australian personnel evacuated the base after sundown. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 1st Burma Division unsuccessfully attacked Japanese 33rd Infantry Division at Monywa, Burma on the Chindwin River. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii intercepted a radio message from Nobutake Kondo's chief of staff regarding the formation of task forces for an offensive operation. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 The powder magazine of gun battery Geary on Corregidor in the Philippine Islands was hit by Japanese artillery at 1627 hours, detonating 1,600 62-pound powder bags; 56 were killed and hundreds were wounded. To the east, in Manila Bay, river gunboat USS Mindanao was scuttled to prevent capture. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Italian Navy units began arriving at Constanta, Romania where they prepared to cross the Black Sea to Yalta, Ukraine. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 The BI-1 rocket-powered prototype aircraft successfully underwent a low-power test at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, lifting the aircraft about one meter off the ground. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Dr. H. V. Evatt, the Australian representative to the British War Cabinet and the Pacific War Council arrived in the United Kingdom. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Sunfish was launched at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, sponsored by Mrs. J. W. Fowler. 
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02 May 1942 WW2 Chester Nimitz inspected defenses on Sand Island and Eastern Island of Midway Atoll. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 Viktor Lutze, head of the SA, was killed by partisans; he was succeeded by Wilhelm Scheppmann. The cause of death was officially stated as an automobile accident. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 Japanese aircraft conducted a raid on Darwin, Australia. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 The RAF Bomber Command reported to the British Air Ministry that it currently had 725 ready crews for operations; the number included 129 crews of Wellington bombers and 250 crews for Lancaster bombers. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 USS Gar reported sinking a Japanese ship in daylight with her deck gun. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 The Japanese Southeast Detached Force was established for the defense of the Solomon Islands, with its base in Rabaul. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt informed George Marshall that he was going to approve the supplies Chiang Kaishek requested without any caveats, which included 500 planes and 10,000 tons of supplies to be delivered over the Hump. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese transport in the Pacific Ocean; all four torpedoes missed. 
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02 May 1943 WW2 The British Admiralty was officially announced the loss of destroyer HMS Beverley, sunk on 11 Apr 1943 while escorting Allied convoy ON-176. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 54-year-old Leonard Dawe, a teacher, compiled a cross-puzzle which was published in the Daily Telegraph on this date. He was put under MI5 investigation as the crossword puzzle contained the code names of the American landing beaches in Normandy, France. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First mention made of Night Combat Training Unit. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 USS Whale made rendezvous with destroyer escort USS Fair. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 Two transports arrived at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with 1,800 Jews from Budapest, Hungary and 2,000 from Topolya, Yugoslavia. 1,102 were registered into the camp, and the remaining 2,698 were sent to the gas chambers. 
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02 May 1944 WW2 Floating drydock USS ABSD-2 departed California, United States in 10 separate sections. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 U-977 departed Kristiansand, Norway on her first and only war patrol. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Trepang surfaced to shell a sampan, but later called off the attack and allowed the boat to leave. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Burgdorf passed away. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British Second Army reached Lübeck, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 German forces allowed the passage of convoys carrying relief supplies to civilians in occupied Netherlands. On the same day, 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Commandant Rahm of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp relinquished control of the camp to the International Red Cross. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Ann Baumgartner married Major William Carl and adopted her husband's last name. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepted the surrender of the Axis forces in Southern Europe. Over 1,000,000 men in northern Italy and Austria laid down their arms. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese vessel in the Gulf of Siam; all torpedoes missed. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-481 was sunk by Japanese shore batteries off Tarakan, Borneo. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill fired three torpedoes into Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka, which she had damaged on the previous day, sinking her. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH operatives captured Hans Fritzsche. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 A group of prominent prisoners of war were transferred from the camp at Laufen in southern Germany to a camp at Markt Pongau near Salzburg in occupied Austria, where they would be treated respectfully by SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger who wished to curry favor as the war was coming to an end. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 In Burma, Indian 26th Division and Indian 17th Division continued their competition to be the first division to reach Rangoon. The 26th Division made an amphibious landing near the city, while the 17th Division secured Pegu. The first individual to enter Rangoon, however, was an RAF officer who landed on a nearby airstrip on this date. He walked into the city and, having assured himself that the Japanese had really gone, sailed down the river in a commandeered sampan to meet the troops advancing from the south. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Japanese-sponsored puppet state Manchukuo issued its last postage stamps. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 General Helmuth Weidling accepted General Vasily Chuikov's terms of unconditional surrender; the surrender of the Berlin garrison in Germany was to be effective at 1500 hours. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Werhner von Braun departed Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany for Austria; his group ran into American troops after passing through Adolf-Hitler-Pass (now Oberjoch Pass). 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Rechlin-Lärz Airfield in Rechlin, Mecklenburg, Germany, a Luftwaffe test site. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents captured German SS-Gruppenführer Johann Rattenhuber, Rear Admiral Hans-Erich Voß, General of Artillery Helmuth Weidling, and SS General Wilhelm Mohnke in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet Hammer and Sickle flag was hoisted atop the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Walter Dornberger departed Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch in the Allgäu mountains in southern Germany for Austria; his group ran into American troops after passing through Adolf-Hitler-Pass (now Oberjoch Pass). 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Werner Haase was captured by Soviet troops in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 arrived aboard USS Ticonderoga at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Springer attacked a Japanese transport and two escort ships, sinking Japanese frigate Ojika in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet GKO created the positions of Deputy Front Commanders in Charge of the Management of Civil Affairs. The first holders of these positions were Soviet counterintelligence leaders Ivan Serov, Lavrentiy Tsavana, and Pavel Meshik. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 USS Pompon attacked a small Japanese boat off Taiwan with her deck gun; the boat escaped without damage. 
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02 May 1945 WW2 British government announced that London, England, United Kingdom was now a "Go Home" area, ending the nearly six-year evacuation. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Lansdowne was decommissioned from service. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Bailey was decommissioned from service. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of major. 
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