Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1945: Western Front Canadians and AmeriÂcans link up between Maas and Rhine. Philippines Japanese resistance in Manila ends. Air War Britain: 100 German night intruders […]
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Diary for Friday, March 2, 1945: Air War Germany: 2 RAF daylight raids on Cologne. 406 USAAF bombers attacking again Dresden. Western Front 9th US Army takes Krefeld, Venlo and
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Diary for Thursday, March 1, 1945: Western Front München-Gladbach captured by US 9th Army.
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Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1945: Western Front US 1st Army crosses river Erth, 10 km from Cologne. Politics Allied-occupied Iran declares war on Japan. Saudi Arabia declares war on
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Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1945: Russian Front Rokossovsky drives into Pomerania. Politics French-occupied Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan.
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Diary for Monday, February 26, 1945: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF carries out 3,000 t. raid with 1,112 bombers on Berlin; 1/2 Million incendiaries dropped. Main targets: 3 railway stations
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Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1945: Western Front 1st and 9th US Armies break German defenses at river Roer west of Cologne, capturing Düren and Jülich.
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Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1945: Philippines Americans crush desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros Âold walled quarter of Manila. Air War Germany: Colonel Ivan Kojedub, top scoring Russian (and
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Diary for Friday, February 23, 1945: Pacific Iwo Jima: Marines take Mt Suribachi. Hoisting of US flag captured in classic photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Russian Front Poland – Siege of
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Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1945: Air War Europe – OPERATION CLARION: 9,000 Allied bombers and fighters from bases in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy attack rail and road
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Diary for Wednesday, February 21, 1945: Western Front US 3rd Army attacks Saar-Moselle ‘triangle’. Sea War Pacific: Escort carrier Bismarck Sea sunk by Kamikaze planes off Iwo Jima.
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Diary for Tuesday, February 20, 1945: Air War Germany: 900 B-17 Fortress blast passenger station and marshalling yards at Nuremburg. 700 escort fighters (23 lost) strafe locomotives, rolling stock, parked
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Diary for Monday, February 19, 1945: Sea War Pacific – AMERICANS LAND ON IWO JIMA (Operation Detachment): 4th and 5th Marine divisions employed. Sergeant John Basilone, first enlisted US marine
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Diary for Sunday, February 18, 1945: Western Front Ardennes: US 3rd Army breaks through Siegfried Line, northwest of Echternach. Russian Front East Prussia: General Ivan D. ChernyaÂkhovsky, commander of 3rd
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Diary for Saturday, February 17, 1945: Home Front Britain: World Trades Union Conference in London.
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