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History on the 11th of May

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11 May 1621 RELIGIOUS Death of Johann Arndt, 65, German Lutheran theologian. Called the precursor of Pietism, Arndt was the greatest name in the history of German mysticism after Thomas a Kempis.
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11 May 1682 RELIGIOUS The General Court of Massachusetts repealed two laws which had been passed two years earlier: one forbade the keeping of Christmas, and the second mandated capital punishment for Quakers who returned to the colony after being banished.
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11 May 1824 RELIGIOUS St. Regis Seminary was opened in Florissant, Missouri. It was the first Roman Catholic institution established in America for the higher education of American Indians.
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11 May 1825 RELIGIOUS The American Tract Society, the first national tract league in America, was formed in NY City by the merger of 50 smaller societies.
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11 May 1888 RELIGIOUS The Woman's Missionary Union, Auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, had its inception in Richmond, Virginia, when delegates from 15 states met to form a general women's organization within the denomination.
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11 May 1916 WW2 Rear Admiral Kanshiro Haji was named the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Takeshi Takarabe (Ryojun Military Port, northeastern China). 
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11 May 1919 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Izmir, Turkey, and the Marine detachment was disembarked to protect American interests in this Greek-occupied Turkish city; elements of the Turkish population resisted the Greek occupied with violence. 
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11 May 1920 WW2 Oswald Mosley married Lady Cynthia Curzon, the daughter of British Foreign Secretary George Curzon, at St James's Palace in London, England, United Kingdom. Their guests included King George V of the United Kingdom and King Leopold III of Belgium. 
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11 May 1921 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time. 
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11 May 1922 WW2 USS S-31 was commissioned into service with Lieutenant William A. Heard in command. 
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11 May 1930 WW2 Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer. 
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11 May 1931 WW2 The Credit-Anstalt (Austria's biggest bank; owned by the Rothschild family) went bankrupt, which ultimately would contribute to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany. 
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11 May 1937 WW2 Grom was commissioned into service. 
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11 May 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured the Hulishan and Baishi forts at Xiamen, China. 
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11 May 1939 WW2 The US Navy placed an order for the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver carrier-borne dive-bomber. 
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11 May 1939 WW2 Small Mongolian and Manchukuo cavalry units clashed near the village of Nomonhan in the border region. 
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11 May 1939 WW2 A Chinese man shot a Japanese citizen on Gulangyu island, an international settlement off Xiamen, China, giving the Japanese to dispatch a Special Naval Landing Force detachment near Gulangyu. 
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11 May 1939 WW2 American gunboat USS Asheville departed Gulangyu island, an international settlement off Xiamen, China. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 King George VI of the United Kingdom signed the proclamation canceling the Whitsun holiday. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 Switzerland mobilized its military forces in response to the German invasion of the neutral Low Countries on the previous day. Civilians in towns near the German-Swiss border fled south. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 British troops landed on Dutch islands of Aruba and Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea. US President Roosevelt announced that these actions were not contrary to the Monroe Doctrine. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 Germany occupied Luxembourg. In Belgium, German airborne troops captured the "impregnable" Fort Eben Emael while tanks crossed Albert Canal bridges in an attempt to move behind Belgian defensive lines. Troops of the German 9th Panzer Division crossed the Meuse River; at 1200 hours, they found an undefended bridge over the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal 50 miles from Rotterdam, where airborne troops of the German 22nd Flieger Division held on to bridges along the Nieuwe Maas River, awaiting the arrival of ground troops. Seven German armored divisions began to spearhead into the Ardennes Forest, brushing aside the few French cavalry units guarding this route into France. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill named Lord Beaverbrook the head of the Ministry of Aircraft Production. This ministry reported to the War Cabinet, and was responsible for setting aircraft production priorities. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 US President Roosevelt announced that the US was now officially recognizing the state of war between Germany and the Low Countries and reaffirmed American neutrality in that conflict. He restricted submarines of any of the nations involved in that conflict to use American ports and territorial waters, exclusive of the Panama Canal Zone. 
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11 May 1940 WW2 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Anthony Eden as Secretary of State for War. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 German forces completed the occupation of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 British Brigadier Kingstone departed Haifa, Palestine with a column of horse cavalry and armored cars to reinforce RAF Habbaniya, Iraq. Meanwhile, the first 3 German Luftwaffe aircraft from Greece landed at Mosul, Iraq. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank British ship City of Shanghai with the last torpedo 750 miles southwest of Sierra Leone at 0130 hours after tracking her for 16 hours; 6 were killed, 67 survived. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 The first combat mission by the RAF's new four-engine Halifax bombers failed to succeed when the bombers failed to find their French targets. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler summoned top Nazi Party officials to discuss how to handle Rudolf Heß's unauthorized flight to the United Kingdom. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Galland was ordered by Hermann Göring to dispatch his pilots to search for and shoot down Rudolf Hess' Me-110 aircraft somewhere over the North Sea. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 South African 1st Brigade arrived at Amba Alagi, Abyssinia. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 RAF bombers attacked Hamburg and Bremen in Germany. 
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11 May 1941 WW2 John Colville, secretary to Winston Churchill, observed great fires burning on the southern shore of River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom, result of the previous night's bombing. During the day, German Luftwaffe aircraft bombed RAF Feltwell in England. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 The Japanese invasion fleet (troopships Kinryu Maru and Takahata Maru, cruiser Tatsuta, destroyers Uzuki and Yuzuki, and minelayers Okinoshima (flagship) and Tsugaru) for Ocean (Banaba) and Nauru Islands set sail from Rabaul, New Britain. At 0452 hours, US submarine S-42 attacked the convoy, damaging Okinoshima 125 miles east of Rabaul; one of the destroyers took Okinoshima in tow while the other escorts counterattacked S-42 for six hours, which would cause severe damage, forcing S-42 to end her war patrol early. At 0640 hours, Okinoshima sank in the St. George's Channel. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown sailed for Tongatapu, Tonga, British Western Pacific Territories for temporary repair for the damage incurred during the Battle of Coral Sea. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived near New Hebrides. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived near New Hebrides. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Amon Göth ordered the Jewish council of Szczebrzeszyn, Poland to pay 2,000 zloty and 3 kilograms of coffee as payment for the cost of the ammunition that would soon be used to execute the local Jewish people. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Upon the loss of minelayer Okinoshima, destroyer Yuzuki temporarily assumed the role of Rear Admiral Kiyohide Shimazui's flagship. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Bailey was commissioned into service. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Australian and American aircraft located the wreck of fleet oiler USS Neosho, damaged during the Battle of the Coral Sea and adrift for four days. Destroyer USS Henley arrived at 1300 hours to pick up the survivors and to scuttle Neosho with gunfire. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 US Marine Barracks, Fleet Air Base, Naval Operating Base, Iceland, was established. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 German pilot Eduard Neumann was awarded the German Cross in Gold. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Six Soviet armies supported by various independent rifle, tank, and cavalry units gathered in preparation of an offensive toward Kharkov, Ukraine. German intelligence gained knowledge of such an offensive and the Germany military prepared for a defense. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Panamanian tanker Lubrafol, damaged by German submarine U-564 3 miles east of Hillsboro Inlet, Florida, United States two days prior, finally sank after two days of burning. On the same day, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles northeast of Barbuda island, U-502 sank British ship Cape of Good Hope; 37 survived. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 British destroyers HMS Kipling, HMS Jackal, HMS Jervis, and HMS Lively, having been launched out of Alexandria, Egypt on the previous day to intercept an Axis convoy, was detected by German reconnaissance aircraft based out of Crete, Greece at about 1200 hours. At 1430 hours, 14 German Ju 88 aircraft attacked, sinking HMS Lively 120 miles north of Sidi Barrani, Egypt at 1530 hours (76 were killed). Just before sundown, 7 Ju 88 aircraft attacked again, sinking HMS Kipling (25 were killed) and damaing HMS Jackal (15 were killed) 60 miles north of Sidi Barrani. HMS Jervis rescued 630 survivors and took HMS Jackal, afire, in tow. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 USS S-44 damaged Japanese repair ship Shoei Maru off Rabaul, New Britain, hitting her with two torpedoes at 0957 hours; Shoei Maru would sink at 1440 hours. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe aircraft sank Soviet gunboat Rion and barge Anakriya in the Black Sea, killing 400, most of whom were wounded troops being evacuated from southern Ukraine. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii intercepted a radio message from Nobutake Kondo noting that the occupation force for the upcoming campaign would proceed to Saipan, Mariana Islands to await the launch of the operation. Rochefort determined that this occupation force was likely to sail east rather than south, and Midway Atoll was a likely target. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 The 3rd Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy moved to the coast of Gulf of Bomba in Libya in preparation for a planned amphibious operation behind Allied lines, which would never take place. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Newly arrived Spitfire fighters at Malta intercepted an Axis air fleet aiming to bomb Malta, shooting down 47 Axis aircraft at the loss of only 3. 
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11 May 1942 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Tash-Alchin, Russia. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 US 7th Infantry Division landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 26 girls were killed in an Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) hostel in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom during a German bombing raid. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 Allied convoy SC 130 (37 ships) departed Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 The United Kingdom to Lisbon, Portugal air service, previously operated by the Dutch airline KLM, was taken over by the British airline BOAC using Douglas DC-3 aircraft on the route. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 US B-17 and B-24 bombers attacked Lakunai Airfield and Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Planes of Air Group 12 on board. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Tokyo, Japan. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 Nachi departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 USS Permit attacked a Japanese convoy east of the Mariana Islands, sinking two transports with 4 torpedo hits and damaging a third with 1 hit; a total of 6 torpedoes was expended. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 USS Grayback attacked a six-freighter Japanese convoy escorted by three armed vessels after dark in the South Pacific, sinking freighter Yodogawa Maru with 1 of 6 torpedoes. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived in Washington DC, United States for the Trident Conference scheduled to start on the next day. 
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11 May 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Pressured by the respective governments, German authorities in Italy released from captivity Jews of Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss, Swedish, and Finnish citizenship. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Chinese troops crossed the Salween River in Burma. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Japanese Navy devised Operation A-Go for the defense of the Mariana Islands; it would be launched in Jun 1944. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 USS Tunny arrived in the Mariana Islands. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Saeki, Japan for Tawi-Tawi, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Yamato departed from Lingga, Dutch East Indies for Tawi-Tawi, Philippine Islands with Mobile Fleet under Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 5 (VC-5) and Composite Squadron 10 (VC-10) on board. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 Operation Diadem, the fourth Allied attempt at attacking Cassino, Italy, was launched at 2300 hours with 1,660 artillery pieces firing on German defensive positions. Troops of US Fifth and British Eighth Armies advanced toward German positions behind the artillery barrage. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 USS Franklin transited through the Panama Canal. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 German SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer was appointed the commandant of Auschwitz I after his predecessor Liebehenschel was transferred to Majdanek Concentration Camp. 
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11 May 1944 WW2 German Luftwaffe units I./KG 55 and II./KG 55 were sent to Focsani, Romania; they would cover the evacuation by sea of the last German ground forces fighting in the Crimea region of Russia for the subsequent five days. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Kiyoshi Ogawa passed away. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Various German units in Czechoslovakia, Dunkirk in France, and the Aegean Sea islands surrendered. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 USS Bunker Hill was hit by two Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan, killing 373. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 A Japanese Navy Ohka combat sortie by 4 G4M bombers off Okinawa, Japan heavily damaged American destroyer USS Hugh W. Hadley. On the island, US troops launched an offensive toward Naha. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 92 American B-29 bombers attacked the Kawanishi aircraft factories near Kobe, Japan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Australians launched their final assault on the last Japanese strongpoint on the northern coast of Wewak, New Guinea. Cut off from support and defending a backwater that had been by-passed in the Pacific War, the Japanese nevertheless fought on fanatically until the 23 May when the surviving sick, starving and broken force retreated into the mountains. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Target Committee of the Manhattan Project, led by Robert Oppenheimer, decided the best targets of the atomic bomb were Kyoto, Niigata, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and Kokura. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 German President Karl Dönitz ordered all promotions and awards to cease. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 departed Woleai, Caroline Islands with 60 evacuees and 2 boxes of ashes of killed servicemen. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 The Soviet Prague Strategic Offensive in Czechoslovakia concluded. On the same day, SMERSH agents arrested many Russian émigrés in Prague; in 2003, the Czech government would name this day "the day of the destruction of Russian intellectuals". 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Military medical doctor Lieutenant Colonel Faust Shkaravsky of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front concluded that one of the two bodies Soviet SMERSH agents retrieved near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany was that of Adolf Hitler's. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Soviet counterintelligence official Pavel Meshik reported to the Soviet high command in Berlin, Germany that Soviet discipline was poor, and that lootings and rapings continued to occur in and around the German capital. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed waters off Okinawa, Japan, sailing for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Fumihiro Mitsuyama (born Tak Kyonghyong), flying a Ki-43 aircraft, died in battle off Okinawa, Japan as a special attack pilot. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Four PV-1 aircraft of US Navy VPB-137 squadron attacked Kagi butanol plant, Taiwan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 US aircraft based in the Philippine Islands attacked the town of Koshun, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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11 May 1945 WW2 Sergeant Jack Hinton of New Zealand 2nd Division received the Victoria Cross from King George VI at the Buckingham Palace in London, England, United Kingdom for bravery exhibited while fighting in Kalamata, Greece on 28 Apr 1941. 
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11 May 1946 WW2 USS Pompon was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and placed in the New London Group of the US Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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11 May 1948 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Izmir, Turkey. 
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11 May 1949 WW2 Siam was renamed to Thailand for the second time. 
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