Thursday, May 7, 2020

1000-Yr. Reich Ends Unconditionally
(& 988 Yrs. Early)

MON 7 MAY 1945
Atlantic and Europe
Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Western Allies and Russia at Reims, France.
Pacific
Japanese minesweeper W.29 and cargo vessel Kashima Maru are sunk by mines (laid by USAAF B-29s) in Shimonoseki Strait, 34°02'N, 130°54'E; mines also sink merchant cargo ship Shofuku Maru off Dairen, Manchuria; and merchant vessel Teiko Maru off Futaoi Jima.

USAAF B-24s (13th Air Force) bomb Japanese shipping and shore installations at Makassar, sinking gunboat Kenzan Maru and cargo ship Hakko Maru, 05°08'S, 119°35'E.

PBMs or PB2Ys on sweeps off west coast of Korea sink Japanese cargo ships Tatsuchiyo Maru, 34°00'N, 126°00'E; No.2 Kozan Maru, 35°16'N, 126°03'E; and Kaba Maru and Hoei Maru, 34°00'N, 130°00'E.

Japanese minesweeper Nuwajima, damaged by aircraft, is beached, Saeki Bay.

1 comment:

Dave Dubya said...

And now the Fourth Reich has risen on the Potomac.

"Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”

― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui