Twenty seven P-51 Mustangs out of 148 escordging B-29s were lost in a thunderstorm en route to Osaka.
Charles de Gaulle accused the British of meddling in French affairs in the Middle East. In response, the British accused the French of using Lend-Lease equipment to fight the Syrians and Lebanese in violation of the agreement with the United States, which the French were almost certainly doing. The British meanwhile complete the occupation of Lebanon and Syria.
British troops reluctantly began the forcible repatriation of approximately 40,000 members of the Cossack Corps and their families. Conflict broke out resulting in 700 Cossack deaths from gunshots, panic, and suicide.
The repatriated Cossacks would meet with death in their home countries. The few who managed to avoid repatriation tended to immigrate to the United States, where they spent the rest of their lives in an understandably insular manner.
Cossacks had suffered as an ethnicity under Communism and largely joined the Germans, as many other Soviet citizens did, hoping to overthrow the Communist government while not really giving much thought to what the Germans stood for. The Nazis proved to be oddly fascinated with them, so much so that they were given a false ethnic identity to make them more "Aryan".
Sarah Sundin's blog also discusses their fate today, and that of Danish collaborators:
Today in World War II History—June 1, 1940 & 1945: Denmark decrees prison for war profiteers and for those who aided Germans or joined German military or police units, and the death penalty for those in Danish Nazi terror organizations.
Japanese troops began to grow upset with the war on Okinawa.
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