Italian forces in Ethiopia surrendered.
Today in World War II History—May 19, 1941
This would stand as the first major Allied victor of World War Two. Amazingly, Italian bitter enders carried on a guerilla campaign against the British until 1943, something which is little remembered, particularly in the context of general Italian ineffectiveness during the war.
The British took Fallujah in Iraq.
On the same day, anticipating what was coming, the RAF withdrew from Crete.
In Japanese occupied Indochina, Vietnamese nationalist and communists formed the Viet Minh. The movement was Communist dominated, although at this point it did include some other nationalist elements. In some ways it was a revival of an organization that had been formed in the mid 1930s, in China, to oppose the French, but Japanese occupation sparked its immediate renewal.
The organization would go on to oppose the French after the war and would become solidly Communist by that time.
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