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January 28th | The end of the Battle of the Bulge – from now the German Army was on the retreat into Germany itself. |
February 13th | Start of the bombing raid on Dresden. |
February 16th | Start of the Battle of Iwo Jima – the US Navy began a 3 day bombardment of Iwo Jima. |
February 19th | US Marines landed on Iwo Jima. |
February 23rd | US Marines raise the US flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi. |
March 7th | British and American troops crossed the Rhine. |
March 16th | Iwo Jima was declared secure by US forces. |
March 22nd | US 3rd Army crossed the River Rhine. |
March 29th | Last bomb (a V1) fell on Britain. |
April 1st | America took Okinawa – the last island held by the Japanese. The Ruhr was encircled by the Allies. |
April 12th | Death of F D Roosevelt. |
April 13th | The Russians captured Vienna. Belsen handed over to the British who entered the concentration camp on April 15th. |
April 18th | All resistance in the Ruhr is ended and 370,000 German prisoners were taken. |
April 22nd | Hitler decided to stay in Berlin ‘until the end’. |
April 25th | American and British troops met at Torgau, Germany. |
April 30th | Hitler committed suicide. |
May 2nd | Berlin surrendered to the Russian Army. |
May 4th | The German VII Army surrendered. |
May 7th | Germany surrendered unconditionally. |
May 8th | Victory in Europe (VE) Day. |
May 11th | German forces in Czechoslovakia surrendered. |
June 22nd | Japanese resistance on Okinawa ended. |
July 12th | General Election in Britain. Atlee replaced Churchill as Prime Minister. |
August 6th | First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the ‘Enola Gay’. |
August 9th | Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki by ‘Bockscar. |
September 2nd | Japan surrendered. Victory in Japan (VJ) Day celebrated. |
November 20th | Start of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. |
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