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.
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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 "
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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
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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
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