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- 1945: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR.
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- Jan 9: Philippines -US land at Lingayen Gulf.
- Jan 12: Russians drive to Oder,Germany.
- Jan 16: US First and Third armies meet after Battle of Bulge.
- Jan 17: Russians take Warsaw.
- Jan 22: Ledo and Burma roads reopened.
- Jan 23: St.Vith is recaptured.
- Feb 3: Battle of Manila begins.
- Feb 8: First Canadian Army atacks east of Nijmegen - Operation Veritable.
- Feb 13: Dresden destroyed by firestorm bombing in controversial raid.
- Feb 13: Germans capitulate in Budapest.
- Feb 16: Americans assault Corregidor.
- Feb 19: US land on Iwo Jima.
- Feb 23: US Ninth army attacks towards Rhine.
- Feb 25: US daylight fireraid on Tokyo.
- Feb 28: Philippines - US invade Palawan.
- Mar 3: Manila secured by US.
- Mar 6: Final German counter attack in Hungary.
- Mar 7: US sieze bridge over Rhine at Remagen.
- Mar 8: Battle fo Mandalay.
- Mar 23: Montgomery crosses Rhine.
- Apr 1: US land on Okinawa.
- Apr 2: Allied forces encircle Germans in Ruhr pocket.
- Apr 16: Final Soviet drive against Berlin commences.
- Apr 17: Philippines - Battle of Eastern Mindanao.
- Apr 18: Russians break through Oder-Neisse line.
- Apr 18: Italy - 8th Army secures Argenta gap.
- Apr 24: Berlin surrounded.
- Apr 25: US and Soviet forces meet.
- Apr 25: US 10th Mountain Army takes Verona in Italy.
- Apr 26: Beginning of Battle for Berlin.
- Apr 28: Mussolini is executed by Communists in Italy.
- Apr 30: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
- May 1: Australians begin landings against Japanese in Borneo.
- May 2: End of fighting in Italy.
- May 2: Berlin surenders.
- May 2: Rangoon is taken from the Japanese.
- May 4: Surrender of German forces to Montgomery.
- May 4: Major Japanese kamikaze attack on US fleet at Okinawa.
- May 7: German unconditional surrender.
- May 8: VE day.
- May 9: The war in Europe is officially over.
- Jun 22: US conquer Okinawa.
- Aug 6: `Little Boy` uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
- Aug 8: Soviet declaration of war on Japan.
- Aug 9: Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
- Aug 9: `Fat Man` plutonima bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
- Aug 13: Soviets invade Japanese held Korea.
- Aug 15: Emperor Hirohito announces Japanese surrender in Tokyo.
- Aug 15: last US raid on Tokyo by XXI Bomber command.
- Sep 13: Surrender of Japanese in Burma.
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