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• Commander Keiji Koeu was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• U-977 surfaced near Holsenöy Island, Bergen, Norway to release 16 of the crewmen who wished to return home to their families. She then headed for Argentina. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Konrad Henlein passed away. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US Navy aircraft attacked Japanese shipping off Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling was arrested. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Operation Kikusui No. 6 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 70 Japanese Navy and 80 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Heinrich Hoffmann was arrested by the Americans. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Miami departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Soviet troops regain control of Prague, Czechoslovakia, ending the 5-day uprising. ww2dbase [TH]

• The German garrison in Dunkerque, France surrendered to a Czechoslovak armoured brigade, two days after the surrender of the main German army in its homeland. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Hisaichi Terauchi suffered a stroke while in Saigon, French Indochina. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The surrender of Germany officially took effect at 0001 hours on this date. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Harold Watson flew a captured Ju 290 aircraft from München-Riem airport in southern Germany to another airfield near Nürnberg, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Jürgen Stroop surrendered to US troops in he village of Rottau in the Bavarian region of Germany under a false identity. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The German resistance on the Hel Peninsula across the bay from Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) ceased. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima was named the commanding officer of Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Manhattan Project Target Committee met at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States to compile a list of potential atomic weapon targets in Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Women's Army Corps typists at Manhattan District headquarters began preparing press kits on the Manhattan Project for use after an atomic bomb had been dropped. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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