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• 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 [U-977 | CPC]
• Konrad Henlein passed away. ww2dbase [Konrad Henlein | CPC]
• US Navy aircraft attacked Japanese shipping off Korea. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling was arrested. ww2dbase [Vidkun Quisling | 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 [Okinawa Campaign | CPC]
• Heinrich Hoffmann was arrested by the Americans. ww2dbase [Heinrich Hoffmann | CPC]
• Commander Keiji Koeu was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• HMS Cumberland deployed in TF61 with HMS Queen Elizabeth, FS Richelieu, HMS Cruiser Royalist, Dutch cruiser Tromp, HMS Hunter, HMS Khedive, HMS Shah and HMS Emperor of 21st Carrier Squadron. Destroyer screen comprised HM Destroyers Saumarez, Venus, Verulam, Virago, Vigilant, Nubian and Rotherham (Operation Dukedom - For interception and sinking of Japanese ships evacuating forces from Burma). ww2dbase [Richelieu | Cumberland | Queen Elizabeth | DS]

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

• Soviet troops regain control of Prague, Czechoslovakia, ending the 5-day uprising. ww2dbase [Prague | 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 [Germany's Surrender | Dunkerque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais | AC]

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

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

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii en route San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Shaw | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• UIT-25 was taken over by the Japanese Navy at Kobe, Japan and recommissioned as I-504. She was attached to the Kure Naval District. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]
• While undergoing overhaul at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Kobe, Japan, UIT-24 was taken over by the Japanese Navy. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]

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

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

• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh sent 24 aircraft on observation flights to Western Germany. These tours were organized in order to show ground personnel throughout the United Kingdom some of the bomb damage done to the Reich. All flights were completed without incident. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Bombing of Cities in France and Low Countries | RAF Thurleigh | Thurleigh, England | DS]

• Manhattan Project Target Committee met at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States to compile a list of potential atomic weapon targets in Japan. ww2dbase [Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Los Alamos, New Mexico | 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 [Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | CPC]

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