May 1941

the éphéméride | all on May and 1941.

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• May 1st:

• First of the film Citizen Kane of Orson Welles with New York.

• May 2nd:

• Coup d'etat anti-British in Iraq.

• May 3rd:

• the Germany and the Italy divide the Slovenia;

• May 10th:

• Rudolf Hess is captured in Scotland after having jumped out of its plane.

• May 13rd:

• Hitler-Darlan Interview.

• May 15th:

• Creation of the National front, French communist resistance movement.
• First flight of a British jet, the Gloster E28/39.

• May 20th:

• the German Parachutiste S jump on the Crete.

• May 23rd:

• Hitler gives a directive to collaborate with the Arab nationalist movements of the the Middle East against the the United Kingdom.

• May 24th:

• the British cruiser Hood is run by the German battleship Bismark : 1.416 sailors perish;
• the Greek government leaves the Crete for Cairo.

• May 26th:

• Exchange of gunfire between the German battleship Bismarck and the Polish destroyer Piorun which announces the position of the Bismarck to the British fleet.

• May 27th:

• After a long continuation, the German battleship Bismarck is run by the planes Swordfidh of the Ark Royal , the cruisers Rodney , King George V and Dorsetshire , with 790 miles of Brest in the north of the France, carrying 2.805 sailors.

• May 28th:

• the forces of the British and the Commonwealth start to evacuate the Crete.

• May 31st:

• Armistice enters Iraq and the United Kingdom.

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