The Zhukov-Konev Race to Berlin began.
The British 11th Armored Division liberated Bergen-Belsen under an April 12 agreement to allow the Germans to surrender the camp without resistance.
The 1st Canadian Army captured Arnhem.
A Japanese air raid destroyed many US aircraft on the ground on Okinawa.
Task Force 58 launched fighter sweeps over Kyushu, shooting down 29 Japanese aircraft and destroying 59 on the ground.
Franklin Roosevelt was interred at Hyde Park.
The F-82 Twin Mustang had its first flight.
The U-285, U-1063 and U-1235 were sunk by Allied warships in the North Atlantic.
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling,age 60, German Nazi Gauleiter committed suicide, something that was becoming something of an epidemic amongst Nazi officials.
Gen. Friedrich von Rabenau, age 60, former German officer and Lutheran pastor was executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp for his minor role in the July 20 plot. He had been retired due to his Christian beliefs in 1942.
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