The Royal Navy sank the Haguro ending the Battle of Malacca Strait. Admiral Kaju Saguira, age 49, was one of the casualties.
Fourteen U-boats surrendered to convoys in the Arctic.
The British liberated Alderney.
Heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa with the Japanese succeeding in knocking out some U.S. tanks.
Physicist Leo Szilard wrote a letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer trying to convince him that atomic bombs shouldn't be used against Japan.
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Army Group Center, now completely disintegrated, quit all resistance with troops surrender to the Western Allies where they cold, and to the Soviets if they could not.
Axis forces surrendered at Slovenski Gradek.
A new Austrian republic was declared.
Fighting was fierce again on Okinawa.
Burmese nationalist Aung San lead his forces into support of the Allies.
Japan abrogated its treaties with the other Axis countries.
The Battle of the Malacca Strait began between the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Chinese lines were broken by the Japanese, and the Chinese Army was in full retreat.
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