 In the Soviet Union... In Moscow, there is a victory parade at which captured Nazi banners are ceremonially dragged across Red Square.
The standard of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandardt Adolf Hitler
is among the two hundred banners thrown on the ground before Lenin's
tomb. Stalin and senior members of the government and Communist Party
watched from the top of the tomb. Marshal Georgi Zhukov leads the
parade, riding a white horse, the traditional Russian mount for a
conquering hero. In a speech to the massive gathering, Zhukov said that
the Red Army is the most powerful in the world, but the USSR must not
become "conceited or complacent."
In the Greater Sunda Islands... Over Borneo, British and
American aircraft drop 1000 tons of bombs on Japanese positions.
In France... The last of four German Ar234 jet bombers
(collected by "Watson's Wizzers" of the USAAF) lands in
Cherbourg, flying from Sola in Norway. These aircraft are to be loaded
onboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Reaper, along with 34
other advanced German aircraft, for shipment to the United States.
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