3 May 1941
- Australian troops launched a counterattack at Tobruk, Libya. Italian troops repulsed the counterattack, losing only one bunker. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | CPC]
- Alexander Löhr was promoted to the rank of colonel general. ww2dbase [Alexander Löhr | CPC]
- Allied and Italian troops engaged in heavy fighting at Amba Alagi, Abyssinia. ww2dbase [Invasion of Italian East Africa | Amba Alagi | CPC]
- The Panama Canal Zone was placed under the Panama Sector of the US Caribbean Defense Command. ww2dbase [CPC]
- General Jan Smuts announced to the House of Assembly the deployment of South African troops to Egypt. ww2dbase [AC]
- A bomb penetrated the basement shelter of Wilkinson's Lemonade factory in North Shields, England, United Kingdom. One hundred and seven people, more than half of those in the shelter, were killed. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | North Shields, England | AC]
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