Chronology of War Continved from rata S. Section t June 6: Invasion of France starts with Allied landings in Normandy. June 19: Germans start rocket bombing; of England. ' June 23: Russians start new of fensive in White Russia, west of Smolensk. V v . ' June 27: Cherbourg falls to American troops. June SO: U. S. breaks diplo matic relations with Finland. July 3: Russians take Minsk. Jely 9: Caen and LaHaye du Puits fall to Allies. 4 - July . 20: Hitler Injured in as sassination plot. ! - ' July 23: Germans thrown out of last Russian city when Red army storms into Pskov. Aug. 1 Americans break out of Norman peninsula' and into Brit tany. Aug. 2: Turkey breaks diplo matic relations with Germany. ; Aug. . 2 Churchill announces 5340 robot bombs have been .launched against Britain, killing 4735 persons. Aug. 2 Reds reach Baltic Sea, Isolating 300,000 Germans in Es tonia and Latvia; flank Warsaw. Aug. 3 U.S. ; tanks capture Rennes, Brittainy capital. Aug. 4 Hitler orders "ruthless purge" of army. ' . : " Aug. 6 Germans shell Flor ence. desDite promise to keep It j an "open city, : Aug. 8 Russians take Proho r b'ucz, cut off, nazl oil supply in I Carpathians. Aug. 8 Eight German officers hung for Hitler revolt. - Aug. 9 -Americans take Le ! Mans, capture all of St Malo ex cept citadel. Aug. 12 U.S. troops , race - Germans west larmies trap 100,000 Paris. Aug. 13 U. S. troops enter Ar- gentan. Aug. 15 Allies '. invade south France between Marseille and Nice. Aug. 18 Yanks 35 miles from Paris. i Aug. 20 Allies reach the " Seine, trying to trap nazi rem nants which escaped at Falaise. Aug.. 21 Gen. Montgomery says the war's end "is in sight," Patton's tanks reach Versailles, take positions on the Seme on both sides of Paris, crossing at one point. Aug. 21 French patriots battle Germans within Paris. , Aug. 21 Germans counterat tack on Baltic front trying, to res cue 200,000 trapped by Russians. Aug. 22 U. S. third army for ces second crossing of Seine southeast of Paris, turning flank of German 15th army, forecast Ing a greater allied, victory than at Falaise. Aug. 22 Russians outflank Warsaw. Aug. 22 French liberate Tou louse, Hendaye, in southern France. ' ; ' Aug. 23 Romania ends war gainst allies; fights Germany. Aug. 23 Americans -cross Yonne river, 70 miles east of Or leans and 58 miles below Paris. Aug. 25 Paris liberated. Aug. 26 Allies capture Cannes and Antibes in southern France. Aug. 27 Russians clear Ger mans from: 92-mile stretch pf Danube in Romania; smash in strength through Galati, gateway to the Balkans. . j Aug. 28 U.S., forces push up Ma me valley in major offensive; German front seen' near collapse. Aug. 28 Allies occupy Toulon. x ... i Aug. 29 Reds take Constadta, cut oil line from PloestLi Sapt. 3 Lyon falls, i Sept. 4 British seize Brussels and AntwerD. Russia's War with Finland ends. Sept. 11 Germany invaded. Oct. 5 British invade Greece, Oct. 9 Dumbarton Oaks con ference asks world body to main tain peace by joint force. Oct4 11 Bulgaria .accepts pre liminary Allied armistice terms. Oct 13 Riga falls. Oct 19 MacArthur invades Philippines. Sstillwell relieved of duties in China. Oct. 20 Aachen falls. Oct. 21 Churchill, Stalin end conference. ' j . : Oct. 28 Allies accept Bulgaria's v armistice terms. - ; 7 -j c - i Oct 29 Nimitz announces Jap anese lose 58 ships sunk, or dam-? aged, 24 definitely sunk, in clash with U. S. Third and Seventh fleetJ off Philippines. Nov. 10 Churchill announces V-2 rockets hit Britain. -Nov. 12 RAF sinks Tirpitz. Nov. 16 Allies launch great of fensive in Rhineland. ' Nov. 24 U. S. Superfortresses bomb Tokyo. Nov. 27 Superforts blast Tokyo and Bangkok. Dec. 5 U. S British dispute on policy as' British troops - fire- on. ELAS in Athens. Dec 10 Ormoc taken. British form Pacific fleet Bonomi forms ' new Italian cabinet Dec. 11 Draft boards - told to "take men who quit wartime Jobs. Dec. 14 Americans' land on Mindoro in Philippines. Dec. 15 U. & Seventh Army drives into Palatinate.. Dec 17 Nazis" counter-attack, drive into Belgium' 'and Luxem bourg. ; I Dec. 19 Nazis 13 miles into Belgium. hi Dec 27 B-29's'hit Tokyo. Dec 29 Nazi drive blunted on Western front 1 " . 1945 i Jan IS Russ open winter 1945 drive with 3,000,003 men.- ' Jan. 17 Reds take Warsaw. Jan. 18 U. S. 3rd army opens Jan. 21 Reds 200 miles from Berlin. Jan. 23 Reds at Oder, 137 miles from Berlin. , -,- -Jan. 28 U. S. 1st launches west- wall drive. . ' Feb. 2 "Big Three" meet at Yalta. Feb. 4 MacArthur takes heart of Manila.' Feb. 7 U. S. 3d crosses Sure and Our rivers on 22-mile front Feb. . 8 Montgomery launches British-Canadian offensive. - . Feb. 121 Russia to get eastern Poland, "Big Three's" Yalta an nouncement reveals; Germany to be disarmed "forever." Feb. 13 Budapest falls to Reds after 49-day , siege. Feb. 16 ujf S. carriers send 1200 planes over Tokyo. Feb. 18 Paratroops land on Corregidor. j j Feb. 19 Yanks invade I wo Jima. Feb. 2 US. 3d opens mass assault on Saar basin. Feb. 22 Inter-American confer ence at Mexico City. Feb. 23 Turkey declares war on Axis. ' rtf- i Feb. 24 Manila liberated, Mac Arthur reports. Feb. 26 Four Allied strike for the Rhine.. Feb. 28 Erft river crossed; ap proaches to Cologne stormed March 14-U. S. Ninth captures Muenchen-Gladbach, Ruhrland city. March 1 Red Baltic drive cuts of Danzig from Germany. . March 2 Americans reaich the Rhine, capture Krefeld and Third takes Trier. . March 6 U. S. First captures Cologne, Third opens sweeping drive toward Coblenz. , March 7 U. S. Third reaches the Rhine. - March 7 Russians hurl seven armies into all-out offensive to ward Berlin from Oder bridge heads, j March 8 Yanks smash across the Rhine on captured bridge at Remagen. March 10300 B-29s set Tokyo ablaze in war's greatest raid. March 12 Russians capture Kuestnn in Berlin drive March lJ-Churchill sees end df European war by end of this sum mer; Britislv reject German peace feeler made through Sweden. ! March 17 I wo Jima falls to Americans. March 18 U. S. Third army captures Coblenz.' Ludendorff bridge collapses. : Berlin hit by RAF Mosquitos in 34th consecutive day of Allied attack. March 19-20 U. S. navy planes hit Japanese imperial fleet, bot tled in homeland's Inland sea. March 20 U. S. Third and l5ev enth armies join in the Saarland, captures Saarbucken, Zweibreuk en and Worms. Patton enters Mainz. March 22 U. S. Third army crosses the Rhine. March 24 Four Allied armies the British Second, Canadian First, S. Ninth and Allied airborne Neuss; swarm across the Rhine on -wide front; Russians advance 44 miles in Hungary. March 26r Rhine offensive Sweeps inland; U. S. Third army pierces Frankfurt on the Main and plunges beyond into central German plains; U. S. Seventh ar my forces Rhine crossing; U. S. First army smashes forward to Limburg suburbs; U. S. Ninth ar my sweeps 17 miles eastward. March 29 Frankfurt on the Main falls to Patton. March 30 U. S. First army snaps lock on the Ruhr by seizing Paderborn; Russians reach Vien na's Nitra river defense line,, and invade Austria; also seize Danzig. April. 2 New U.S. 10th Army lands on Okinawa. April 2 Americans trap 21 Nazi divisions in Ruhr. April 4 U.S. 3rd army tanks move to 130 miles of Berlin. Brit ish cross lower Weser and Ems rivers. French take Karlsruhe. April Premier Kuniaki Ko- sio's Tokyo cabinet falls. Russians denounce Russo-Japanese Neu trality, Pact. Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz named supreme land and; sea commanders in the Pacific. April 5 U.S. 9th crosses Weser. British take Stolzenau. Canadians race for North Sea coast April 5 Russia denounces its neutrality pact with Japan; Premier Kuniaki Koiso's cabinet falls in Japan;' Adm. Baron Kan taro Suzuki forms new cabinet April 6 Allies "break Weser river line, t taker Hamm, Wurtz- burg and seal off main escape lane from Holland. V April 7 UJS. 3rd army finds German gold bullion reserve and millions in US. and foreign cur rency in Thuringen salt mine. 'April 7 UJS. carrier planes sink 45,000 i, superbattleship Yamoto and five . other warships In East China sea off Okinawa. April 9 Russians capture East Prussian capital of Koenigsberg. ; April 10 Hannover falls to UJS. 9th army. April 11 UJS. 9th army takes Essen; 3d army takes Coburg; British disclose German battle ship Adm. Scheer sunk. April 11 Spains severs rela tions with Japan. April II Antes take offensive in Italy; British tut army captures Lugo, Fusignano and Cotisnola. April 11 President Ftanklin D. Roo sevelt, S3, dies at Warm Springs, Ga. Marry a. iruman Decomes m UJS. President , April II VS. tth army tanks hurdle juoe river, sw nuies wen of Berlin. April Si Russians enter Berlin. ' April l UjS.-Soviet troops Jink at Torgau. - v;: ' ' April zf "Italian patriots execute Mussolini. May 1 Naxis announce Hitler's death. May 7 Germany capitulates ancondltlaaally, after surrenders in northens Italy,, part mt Austria, Denmark, Hellaad, and northwest ;j j' f !jJ" . ,V .f. ' ' " j-..' : ..(".j- j-j , 1 i j . Xk a -1 jh -mS I - I f ; I: 1 "IP - " " " I :-" ' 'A. ' - ' ' ;:- jJ ' 1 . ' I;"' . 1 I !. 1 1 ':-' ! : r .h! ' : 1 I ' ! 1 ' : 1 -'; h : '' -. - r I J j : ; I :j . . j ; ; ,'.; - ; ' j ; f- " i t' " ::' II. k: ' -i -i . ' - S l"1 " f ' I ' ' ' H. I- ' I-; v .. i .!'''.,. i " i . : ! .- ' - : '!v '' Ir. I -vJ-'i;' ' i 'y:l . :n . .. , . i '. '":.--' ,: !'.: . :' 1.... . ? 11 t i:: ... 'EI I .' 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