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At 18.20 General E. Kinzel (Field Marshal Busch's Chief of Staff) and Admiral H. G. von Friedeburg (the new head of the Kriegsmarine) sign surrender documents relating to the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany, the Friesian Islands, Heligoland and Schleswig-Holstein, at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters on Lüneburg Heath.
US 7th Army occupies Salzburg and Berchtesgaden and meets the 5th Army from Italy at the Brenner Pass
French troops approach St. Anton
Seventeen ships are sunk in 24 hours by kamikazes at Okinawa
Royal Navy bombards Sakishima airfields
German submarines U-4 and U-14 scuttled at Wilhelmshaven
German submarines U-120 and U-121 scuttled at Bremerhaven
German submarines U-29, U-30 and U-2540 scuttled at Flensburg
German submarine U-393 sunk near Flensburg
German submarine U-711 sunk at Harstad
German submarines U-1132 and U-1151 scuttled in Kupfermuhlen Bay
German submarine U-1166 scuttled at Kiel
German submarine U-1168 scuttled in Geltinger Bay
German submarine U-876 scuttled at Eckernforde
German submarine U-792 and U-793 scuttled off Rendsburg but later raised and used for experimental work in Britain.
German submarine U-2503 scuttled in the Little Belt
German submarine U-2521 sunk off Flensburg
German submarine U-4709, U-4711, U-4712 scuttled at Germaniawerft, Kiel