| In Occupied Germany... In Berlin, British Field
Marshal Montgomery, standing beneath the Brandenburg Gate, awarded
Soviet Marshal Zhukov with the Grand Cross of the Order of Bath. Acting
as the representative of the King, Montgomery also awarded Marshal
Rokossovsky with the KCB and Generals Sokolovsky and Malinin with the
KBE. The British King's Company of the Grenadier Guards formed the guard
of honor and tanks of the King's 8th Royal Irish Hussars were drawn up
on either side. The ceremony was held in front of a banner proclaiming
"Glory to the Soviet forces who planted the flag of victory over
Berlin."
In Paris... Concentration camp survivors carry a large cross
through the city in memory of French victims of Nazism.
In the Greater Sunda Islands... On Borneo, there is an Allied landing near Andus. Australian troops take Maradi in the north of the island.
In the Philippines.... On Luzon, American forces drop napalm
on Japanese pockets of resistance.
Over Japan... Targets on the Japanese home islands of Shikoku
and Honshu are heavily bombed.
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