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[245] The wreckage had not been located by 10 May. [246] Beechcraft C-45F (43-35681) of Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Ohio, piloted by Maj. Dorence L. Van Fleet, was downed 37 miles north-northeast of Livingston. [247] The C-45 struck Lobo Peak in the Crazy Mountains in a snowstorm, killing all six on board. The wreckage burned, and the ...
May 11, 1945 (Friday) USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikazes. While supporting the Battle of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was badly damaged by Japanese kamikaze attacks and suffered about 600 casualties. The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
April 7, 1945 (Saturday) Operation Ten-Go: The Japanese battleship Yamato and nine other warships launched a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. Yamato was bombed, torpedoed and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft south of Kyushu with the loss of 2,055 of 2,332 crew. Five other Japanese warships were sunk by American aircraft.
Kelly Gissendaner. Kelly Renée Gissendaner ( née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1] [2] At the time of the murder ...
Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
May 1945 sports events (2 C) C. May 1945 events by continent (5 C) M. Maritime incidents in May 1945 (1 C, 297 P) Pages in category "May 1945 events"
The Marburg Files are the main subject and focus of the episode "Vergangenheit" ("Past") of the Netflix television series The Crown, [ 16] which depicts Queen Elizabeth II 's initial review of the documents. The episode's director Philippa Lowthorpe has stated that replicas of genuine files were used during filming. [ 11]
Two blimps. Casualties and losses. Two submarines. 109 killed. One merchant ship. 12 killed. The last actions of the Battle of the Atlantic in American waters took place on 5–6 May 1945 . There were two such actions, against U-853 off the Rhode Island coast and U-881, south of Cape Race, both sunk during the same period.