| In the Soviet Union... Moscow radio announces that
the body of Joseph Goebbels, the former Nazi minister of propaganda, has
been discovered in the courtyard of the Chancellery in Berlin.
In Occupied Germany... The first American occupation troops
arrive in Berlin. Meanwhile, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, nominated by Hitler in
1940 to be Gauleiter of Britain, is captured by Allied troops.
In the Greater Sunda Islands... On Borneo, in the southeast, troops of the
reinforced Australian 7th Division landed at Balikpapan take Sepinggang
airfield as well as the town. The Australian forces have advance 6 miles
inland, east of Balikpapan, which is almost surrounded.
Over Japan... American B-29 bombers attack Himeji, on Honshu,
and the towns of Takamatsu, Tokushima and Kochi, on Shikoku Island, to
the south of Honshu.
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