Air Operations, CBICHINA
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, East IndiesFEAF B-24s attack the Limboeng airfield on Celebes, Balikpapan, and shipping in the Makassar Strait area. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, Formosa38th and 345th Medium Bomb group B-25s attack a sugar refinery and the town area at Kari, as well as various communications targets. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, Japan
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BurmaBritish 14th Army units from Arakan link up with Allied forces west of the Irrawaddy. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern FrontThe 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukraine Fronts join up when they reach Klagenfurt and Linz in Austria, and also make contact with the Americans. CZECHOSLOVAKIAGermans in Prague begin to surrender. The Soviets have lost 10,800 killed. CENTRAL SECTORGerman forces in the Prague pocket begin to surrender. SOVIET COMMANDThe Soviet High Command orders the Ukrainian fronts to push west and link up with the Allies. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Europe(when?)Quisling and some of his supporters are arrested by the resistance in Norway. Reichs Commissioner Terboven and the German Chief of Police in Norway both commit suicide. Quisling will be put on trial for treason by the Norwegians, and will be found guilty and executed. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OkinawaAt 3:00a.m. the 22nd Regiment of the 6th Marine Div begins the attack against the estuary of the Asa River, occupying a bridgehead about a mile wide and 400 yards deep. During the next night a Bailey bridge is put up to allow tanks and artillery to cross. The 1st Marine Div makes slight progress in the direction of Shuri under deadly Japanese fire. Japanese suicide aircraft hit and damage the American destroyer Brown (DD-546) and the light minelayer Harry F. Bauer (DM-26) off Okinawa. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PhilippinesOn Luzon in the US XI Corps sector, the advance of the 43rd Division slows down near Ipo. On Mindanao, a US naval assault group under command of Rear-Adm Arthur D. Struble lands the 108th Regimental Combat Group on the coast of Macalajar Bay. With support from Filipino guerrillas, the beachhead is immediately extended and consolidated. Some units advance about 5 miles to the southeast, joining up with units of the 31st Division. Units of the 19th Infantry begin the liquidation of a number of enemy pockets in the Davao area. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() United States, Home FrontThe US announces the 3,100,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Europe. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Images from May 10, 1945
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