15 May 1939
China
China
- Japanese troops in Hubei Province, China began to falter from the Chinese counteroffensive which began a week prior. ww2dbase [Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang | Hubei | CPC]
- Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for women was established in Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Ravensbrück Concentration Camp | Ravensbrück, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- Waldemar Kophamel was launched at the Howaldtswerke shipyard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Howaldtswerke Kiel | Waldemar Kophamel | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
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