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History on the 2nd of May 1945

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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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