Today in WW II: 2 May 1936 Italian forces enter Addis Abba, the capital of Abyssinia.  More ↓
2 May 1941 Revolution in Iraq suppressed by British [May 2-31].
2 May 1945 British Eighth Army forces in Northern Italy reach Trieste on the Adriatic where they join Tito's Yugoslavian Communist partisans.
2 May 1945 Fall of Berlin to the Soviet Army.
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UK Military F15 Polsten

F15 Polsten. Photo: Courtesy Richard Notton
F15 Polsten. Photo: Courtesy Richard Notton.

F15 Polsten. Photo: Courtesy Richard Notton
F15 Polsten. Photo: Courtesy Richard Notton.