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Berchtesgaden captured by US 7th Army
Hurt in accidental shooting during NYS Guard small arms demonstration
DEMOBILIZATION: Gen Marshall and Army Gen Staff officers rept on plans, House com
all Ger forces in northwest Ger, including Helgoland, surrender to Montgomery; Eisenhower statement; surrender terms, signed by Montgomery and Ger Adm von Friedeberg, listed; Ger prisoner tolls noted; remaining pockets cited; Adm Doenitz not known to have participated in surrender; no coherent fighting front left in west; Austrian and Czechoslovakian pockets threatened by converging Allied armies; Panzer div on Czech border surrenders unconditionally to Allies; Doenitz reptd to have called on Ger troops in central, south and southeast Ger to fight on
Jap planes sink 5 US light naval units off Okinawa; Japanese lose 150 planes and 15 suicide boats; Amers destroy or surround 600 Jap troops landed behind US lines, Okinawa; down Jap flying bomb; US carrier planes in action over Amami group; raid Sakishimas; Domei claims US cruiser sunk off Okinawa; map
1945Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic[†]
Kurt Loder is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later called "legendary". He has contributed to articles in Reason, Esquire, Details, New York, and Time. He has also made cameos on several films and television series. He is best known for his role at MTV News beginning in the 1980s and for appearing in other MTV-related television specials. He has hosted the SiriusXM radio show True Stories since 2016.
1945World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.[†]
The Prague uprising was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation in May 1945, during the end of World War II. The preceding six years of occupation had fuelled anti-German sentiment and the rapid advance of Allied forces from the Red Army and the United States Army offered the resistance a chance of success.
1945World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.[†]
Fu-Go was an incendiary balloon weapon deployed by Japan against the United States during World War II. It consisted of a hydrogen-filled paper balloon 33 feet (10 m) in diameter, with a payload of four 11-pound (5.0 kg) incendiary devices and one 33-pound (15 kg) high-explosive anti-personnel bomb. The uncontrolled balloons were carried over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to North America by fast, high-altitude air currents, today known as the jet stream, and used a sophisticated sandbag ballast system to maintain their altitude. The bombs were intended to ignite large-scale forest fires and spread panic.
1945World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.[†]
The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II.