1945

1945

January 7, 1945 - Ledo road was completed
January 9, 1945 - Americans stormed ashore Lingayen with 68,000 troops
January 16, 1945 - Americans controlled the front lines before the Battle of the Bulge
January 23, 1945 - Americans regained Saint Vith- The end of the Battle of the Bulge
January 30, 1945 - Amerians freed Cabanatuan Prisoners
February 1, 1945 - All planes in the Pacific were assigned to Iwo Jima for bombing
February 8, 1945 - Operation Veritable was launched near Nijmegan
February 19, 1945 - 30,000 Marines reinforced Iwo Jima
February 22, 1945 - Corregidor was won back from the Japanese
February 23, 1945 - Los Baños was liberated and it's prisoners set free
February 23, 1945 - A flag bearing patrol shoved a flag into Suribachi Mountain.
March 7, 1945 - Operation Lumberjack captured the town of Cologne
March 7, 1945 - U.S. 9th Armored division reached Remagen
March 10, 1945 - Mindanao is invaded by the Americans
March 15, 1945 - Iwo Jima was officially taken over
March 17, 1945 - Ludendorff bridge collapsed due to extensive bomb damage
March 24, 1945 - U.S. 9th Army struck at Ruhr
March 25, 1945 - Allies armies were across the Ludendorff bridge and ready to strike
March 29, 1945 - Mannheim was captured by the U.S. Seventh Army
April 1, 1945 - U.S. 9th Army took Lippstadt
April 1, 1945 - Americans stormed the beaches of Okinawa
April 4, 1945 - Ninth and First Army take Kassel
April 8, 1945 - Bremin is taken by the British Second Army
April 9, 1945 - Karlsruhe taken by French first army
April 10, 1945 - Hanover is taken by the Allies
April 12, 1945 - Fifth Army launched an offensive in the Appennines
April 12, 1945 - Roosevelt died at Pine Mountain in Warm Springs, Georgia
April 15, 1945 - First Army took Halle and Leipzing
April 18, 1945 - Canadian First Army takes Ijsselmeer
April 19, 1945 - American divisions pushed into Okinawa
April 20, 1945 - Nuremburg was taken by the U.S. Seventh Army
April 20, 1945 - Hitler celebrated his birthday
April 21, 1945 - Field Marshal Model kills himself - He could not handle not following Hitler's orders
April 21, 1945 - Stuttgart is taken by the Allies
April 22, 1945 - Hitler called his last conference of the war
April 25, 1945 - Berlin was split in two as Russians advanced into the heart of the city
April 25, 1945 - Mussolini & his mistress escaped to Switzerland
April 28, 1945 - Mussolini and his mistress are captured and killed by Lieutenant Colonel Valerio.
April 29, 1945 - Hitler dictated his last will and testament
April 29, 1945 - Hitler marries his love of 12 years
April 29, 1945 - U.S. Fifth Army took Milan in the Po Valley
April 30, 1945 - Munich was taken by the U.S. Seventh Army
April 30, 1945 - Friedrichshafen is taken by the Allies
May 1, 1945 - It was announced that Hitler was dead
May 1, 1945 - Germans surrendered in Italy
May 2, 1945 - Lubeck is taken by the Allies
May 2, 1945 - Berlin Surrendered
May 2, 1945 - Negotiations are started for Germany's surrender
May 7, 1945 - Germans signed unconditional surrender in Reims
May 21, 1945 - Americans captured Sugar Loaf and Conica Hills on Okinawa
May 30, 1945 - Marines captured Shuri
June 4, 1945 - General Buckner's request for surrender on Okinawa was ignored
June 18, 1945 - General Buckner was killed on Okinawa
June 22, 1945 - Lieutenant General Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Okinawa leader, commited suicide
July 5, 1945 - Mindanao was reconquered from the Japanese
August 6, 1945 - The atom bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 - The atom bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 - Surrender of Japan is announced
September 2, 1945 - Japanese sign the formal surrender document