Today is 04 may 2015. On this day in the war years:
In 1942:
The Council of people's Commissars of the USSR adopted the resolution on increase of coal production in the Urals in 1942.
In the coral sea began a 5 day battle between American and Japanese fleets. This is a major battle involving aircraft carriers ended virtually in a draw: the Japanese lost more planes (77 of 154), American ships ( 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 1 tanker). However, the Americans stopped the advance of the Japanese to Australia.
In 1943:
The North-East from Novorossiysk our troops following heavy fighting broke through the enemy's defenses in front of 25 kilometers and captured the railway junction of the Crimea. The average daily advance of Soviet troops in extreme fire resistance and bombing by enemy aircraft on this site was about half to two kilometers. At the same time on this front was the major battle, which involved almost all the main force aircraft of the parties. In aerial combat shot down 368 of enemy aircraft. After may 10 the air fighting became less intense, and before may 26th, there came a break.
Our aviation in the Barents sea, sunk 2 enemy transport.
In 1944:
On all fronts did not happen, reported to the Soviet information Bureau. For this day, our troops on all fronts of action or destroyed 35 German tanks. In air battles or by anti-aircraft fire shot down 74 enemy planes.
On the night of may 4 a major strength of our long-range aircraft bombed the German-Romanian troops, artillery positions and military stores of the enemy in the area of Sevastopol.
In 1945:
Troops of the 2nd Belorussian front, he crossed the Strait of Divenow North of Stettin, captured the town of Wollin, as well as several other major cities and towns. 3 may, troops of the front captured 22 thousand German soldiers and officers. Troops of the 1st Byelorussian front, advancing South from the town of Brandenburg, with the battle took the city of Belzig, Coswig and captured 23 700 soldiers and officers.
Soldier I. D. Churakov found the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun, but 4 days they lay without examination. Only on 8 may they were delivered in a Berlin morgue, and the personal dentist of Hitler and Eva identify them in the teeth. Since Stalin never publicly talked about the fate of the remains, on the West were all sorts of rumors:-the remains were taken to Moscow, that is buried in Germany, then Hitler managed to escape.
Americans freed from prison by the Munich lawyer Josef müller, who had worked since the 1940s for the British intelligence and was arrested in 1943. Two years he spent in the most terrible Nazi concentration camps where he was held in chains. From his penalty saved by the fact that all the documents were lost in the crash.
7th American army came to the Brenner pass on the border of Austria and Italy and joined with the allied forces in Italy.
Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeburg signed at the headquarters of the Montgomery the act of surrender of the German units in Northern Germany, Holland and Denmark.
